[2099] Bentham and Hooker, Genera Pl., ii. p. 1059.

[2100] Pickering, Chronol. History of Plants, p. 223; Rumphius, Herb. Amb., v. p. 204; Miquel, Flora Indo-Batava, ii. p. 760; Schweinfurth and Ascherson, Aufzählung, p. 273; Grisebach. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. Is., p. 458.

[2101] Blume, Bijdragen, p. 778.

[2102] Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 1832, vol. iii. p. 100; Piddington, Index.

[2103] Thunberg, Fl. Jap., p. 254.

[2104] Bretschneider, letter of Aug. 23, 1801.

[2105] Ibid., On Study, etc., p. 16.

[2106] Theophrastus, lib. viii. cap. 1, 5; Dioscorides, lib. ii. cap. 121; Pliny, Hist., lib. xviii. cap. 10.

[2107] Pliny, Hist., lib. xv. cap. 7.

[2108] Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of Ancient Egyptians, vol. ii.; Unger, Pflanzen des Alten Ægyptens, p. 45.