[1469] Loureiro, Fl. Coch., p. 772.
[1470] Marcgraf, Brasil., p. 103, and Piso, p. 159, for Brazil; Ximenes in Marcgraf and Hernandez, Thesaurus, p. 99, for Mexico; and the last for St. Domingo and Mexico.
[1471] Clusius, Curæ Posteriores, pp. 79, 80.
[1472] Martius, Beitr. z. Ethnogr., ii. p. 418.
[1473] P. Browne, Jamaica, edit. 2, p. 360. The first edition is of 1756.
[1474] The passage of Oviedo is translated into English by Correa de Mello and Spruce, in their paper on the Proceedings of the Linnæan Society, x. p. 1.
[1475] De Candolle, Prodr., xv. part 1, p. 414.
[1476] Boissier, Fl. Orient., iv. p. 1154; Brandis, Forest Flora of India, p. 418; Webb and Berthelot, Hist. Nat. des Canaries, Botanique, iii. p. 257.
[1477] Count Solms Laubach, in a learned discussion (Herkunft, Domestication, etc., des Feigenbaums, in 4to, 1882), has himself observed facts of this nature already indicated by various authors. He did not find the seed provided with embryos (p. 64), which he attributes to the absence of the insect (Blastophaga), which generally lives in the wild fig, and facilitates the fertilization of one flower by another in the interior of the fruit. It is asserted, however, that fertilization occasionally takes place without the intervention of the insect.
[1478] Chabas, Mélanges Egyptol., 3rd series (1873), vol. ii. p. 92.