Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[1459] Aublet, Guyane, i. p. 364.

[1460] Meissner, in de Candolle, Prodromus, vol. xv. part 1, p. 52; and Flora Brasil., vol. v. p. 158. For Mexico, Hernandez, p. 89; for Venezuela and Para, Nees, Laurineæ, p. 129; for Eastern Peru, Pœppig, Exsicc., seen by Meissner.

[1461] P. Browne, Jamaica, p. 214; Jacquin, Obs., i. p. 38.

[1462] Acosta, Hist. Nat. des Indes., edit. 1598, p. 176.

[1463] Laet, Hist. Nouv. Monde, i. pp. 325, 341.

[1464] See the fine plates in Tussac’s Flore des Antilles, iii. p. 45, pls. 10 and 11. The papaw belongs to the small family of the Papayaceæ, fused by some botanists into the Passifloræ, and by others into the Bixaceæ.

[1465] R. Brown, Bot. of Congo, p. 52; A. de Candolle, Géogr. Bot. Rais., p. 917.

[1466] Sagot, Journ. de la Soc. Centr. d’Hortic. de France, 1872.

[1467] Rumphius, Amboin, i. p. 147.

[1468] Sloane, Jamaica, p. 165.