Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[1209] Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 893.

[1210] Lowe, Flora of Madeira, p. 266.

[1211] See Blume, ibid.; Descourtilz, Flore Médicale des Antilles, ii. p. 20, in which there is a good illustration of the pyriform guava. Tussac, Flore des Antilles, gives a good plate of the round form. These two latter works furnish interesting details on the use of the guava, on the vegetation of the species, etc.

[1212] Rumphius, Amboin, i. p. 141; Rheede, Hortus Malabariensis, iii. t. 34.

[1213] Bojer, Hortus Mauritianus; Baker, Flora of Mauritius, p. 112.

[1214] All the floras, and Berg in Flora Brasiliensis, vol. xiv. p. 196.

[1215] Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 894.

[1216] Acosta, Hist. Nat. et Morale des Indes Orient. et Occid., French trans., 1598, p. 175.

[1217] Hernandez, Nova Hispaniæ Thesaurus, p. 85.

[1218] Piso, Hist. Brasil., p. 74; Marcgraf, ibid., p. 105.