[929] Marcgraf, Hist. Plant., p. 32, with illustrations.
[930] Schweinfurth and Ascherson, Aufzählung, p. 265, under the name abelmoschus.
[931] Flückiger and Hanbury, Pharmacographia, p. 86. The description is in Ebn Baithar, Sondtheimer’s trans., i. p. 118.
[932] Unger, Die Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, p. 50.
[933] Grisebach, Végét. du Globe, French trans. by Tchihatcheff, i. pp. 162, 163, 442; Munby, Catal. Alger; Ball, Fl. Maroc. Spicel, p. 392.
[934] Adolphe Pictet, Origines Indo-Europ. edit. 2, vol. 1, p. 295. quotes several travellers for these regions, among others Wood’s Journey to the Sources of the Oxus.
[935] These are figured in Heer’s Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten, p. 24, fig. 11.
[936] Ragazzoni, Rivista Arch. della Prov. di Como, 1880, fasc. 17, p. 30.
[937] Heer, ibid.
[938] Planchon, Étude sur les Tufs de Montpellier, 1864, p. 63.