[969] Tussac, Flore des Antilles, iii. p. 55 (where there is an excellent figure, pl. 13). He says that it is an East Indian species, thus aggravating Linnæus’ mistake, who believed it to be Asiatic and American.
[970] Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 873
[971] Piso and Marcgraf, Hist. rer. Natur. Brasil, 1648, p. 57.
[972] Vide Piso and Marcgraf; Aublet, Guyane, p. 392; Seemann, Bot. of the Herald, p. 106; Jacquin, Amér., p. 124; Macfadyen, Pl. Jamaic., p. 119; Greisbach, Fl. of Brit. W. Ind., p. 176.
[973] Ernst in Seemann, Journ. of Bot., 1867, p. 273.
[974] Rheede, Malabar, iii. pl. 54.
[975] Rumphius, Herb. Amboin., i. pp. 177, 178.
[976] Beddone, Flora Sylvatica, t. 163; Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 20.
[977] Loureiro, Fl. Cochin., p. 304.
[978] Brown, Congo, pp. 12, 49.