Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[2049] Triana and Planchon, Prodr. Fl. Novo-Granatensis, p. 170.

[2050] The Malvaceæ have not yet appeared in the Flora Brasiliensis.

[2051] Cl. Gay, Flora Chilena, i. p. 312.

[2052] The Gardener’s Chronicle of Sept. 4, 1880, gives details about the cultivation of this plant, the use of its seeds, and the extensive exportation of them from the west coast of Africa, Brazil, and India to Europe.

[2053] A. de Candolle, Géographie Botanique Raisonnée, p. 962.

[2054] Linnæus, Species Plantarum, p. 1040.

[2055] R. Brown, Botany of Congo, p. 53.

[2056] Bentham, in Trans. Linn. Soc., xviii. p. 159; Walpers, Repertorium, i. p. 727.

[2057] Maregraf and Piso, Brasil., p. 37, edit. 1648.

[2058] Ibid., edit. 1638, p. 256.