[1229] Described first under the name Lagenaria idolatrica. A. Richard, Tentamen Fl. Abyss., i. p. 293, and later, Naudin and Cogniaux, recognized its identity with L. vulgaris.
[1230] Torrey and Gray, Fl. of N. Amer., i. p. 543; Grisebach, Flora of Brit. W. Ind. Is., p. 288.
[1231] Bretschneider, letter of the 23rd of August, 1881.
[1232] Tragus, Stirp., p. 285; Ruellius, De Natura Stirpium, p. 498; Naudin, ibid.
[1233] Pliny, Hist. Plant., l. 19, c. 5.
[1234] Ibn Alawâm, in E. Meyer, Geschichte der Botanik, iii. p. 60; Ibn Baithar, Sondtheimer’s translation.
[1235] Unger, Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, p. 59; Pickering, Chronol. Arrang., p. 137.
[1236] In 8vo, 1877, p. 17.
[1237] Rauwolf, Fl. Orient., p. 125.
[1238] Piso, Indiæ Utriusque., etc., edit. 1658, p. 264.