Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[2149] Brown, Bot. of Congo, p. 55.

[2150] Martius, Hist. Nat. Palmarum, ii. p. 62; Drude, in Fl. Brasil., fasc. 85, p. 457. I find no author who asserts that this palm is wild in Guiana, as Martius affirms it to be in Brazil.

[2151] Elæis melanocarpa, Gærtner. The fruit also contains oil, but it does not appear that the species is cultivated, as the number of oleaginous plants is considerable in all countries.

[2152] Sloane, Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, ii. p. 113.

[2153] Grisebach, Flora of Brit. W. Ind. Is., p. 522.

[2154] Piso, Brasil., p. 65; Marcgraf, p. 138.

[2155] Martius, Hist. Nat. Palmarum, 3 vols. in folio; see vol. ii. p. 125.

[2156] Aublet, Guyane, suppl., p. 102.

[2157] Sloane, Jamaica, ii. p. 9.

[2158] J. Acosta, Hist. Nat. des Indes, French trans., 1598, p. 178.