Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[1449] Humboldt, Espagne, edit. 2, vol. ii. p. 472.

[1450] Fl. Brasil., vol. x. p. 126.

[1451] The proportions of the calyx and the corolla are the same as those of the cultivated tomato, but they are different in the allied species S. Humboldtii, of which the fruit is also eaten, according to Humboldt, who found it wild in Venezuela.

[1452] Ruiz and Pavon, Flor. Peruv., ii. p. 37.

[1453] Spruce, n. 4143, in Boissier’s herbarium.

[1454] Asa Gray, Bot. of Califor., i. p. 538.

[1455] Baker, Fl. of Maurit., p. 216.

[1456] Clusius, Historia, p. 2.

[1457] For instance in Madeira, according to Grisebach, Fl. of Brit. W. Ind., p. 280; in Mauritius, the Seychelles and Rodriguez, according to Baker, Flora of Mauritius, p. 290.

[1458] It is not in Rumphius.