Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[1529] Pliny, Hist., lib. xii. cap. 6.

[1530] Unger, ubi supra, and Wilkinson, ii. p. 403, do not mention it. The banana is now cultivated in Egypt.

[1531] Forster, Plant. Esc., p. 28.

[1532] Clusius, Exot., p. 229; Brown, Bot. Congo, p. 51.

[1533] Roxburgh, Corom., tab. 275; Fl. Ind.

[1534] Rumphius, Amb., v. p. 139.

[1535] Loureiro, Fl. Coch., p. 791.

[1536] Loureiro, Fl. Coch., p. 791.

[1537] Blanco, Flora, 1st edit., p. 247.

[1538] Finlayson, Journey to Siam, 1826, p. 86, according to Ritter, Erdk., iv. p. 878.