[879] Acosta, Hist. Nat. des Indes, Fr. trans. 1598, p. 187.
[880] Roxburgh, Flora Indica, edit. 1832 iii. p. 393.
[881] Rumphius, Hortus Ambeinensis, ii. p. 98.
[882] Miquel, Flora Indo-Batava, i. pt. 2, p. 526.
[883] Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc.
[884] Loureiro, Fl. Cochin., ii. p. 572. For another species of the genus, he says that it is cultivated and non-cultivated, p. 569.
[885] Forster, De Plantis Esculentis Oceani Australis, p. 35.
[886] Seemann, Flora Vitiensis, p. 33.
[887] Plukenet, Almagestes, p. 239; Sloane, Jamaica, i. p. 41.
[888] Cedrat à gros fruit of Duhamel, Traité des Arbres, edit. 2, vii. p. 68, pl. 22.