Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[2159] Vafer, Voyage de Dampier, edit. 1705, p. 186; Vancouver, French edit., p. 325, quoted by de Martius, Hist. Nat. Palmarum, i. p. 188.

[2160] Seemann, Bot. of Herald., p. 204.

[2161] Hernandez, Thesaurus Mexic., p. 71. He attributes the same name, p. 75, to the cocoa-nut palm of the Philippine Islands.

[2162] Oviedo, Ramusio’s trans., iii. p. 53.

[2163] A. de Candolle, Géogr. Bot. Raisonnée, p. 976.

[2164] Grisebach, Vegetation der Erde, pp. 11, 323.

[2165] Seemann, Flora Vitiensis, p. 275.

[2166] The cocoa-nut called Maldive belongs to the genus Lodoicea. Coco mamillaris, Blanco, of the Philippines is a variety of the cultivated Cocos nucifera.

[2167] Drude, in Bot. Zeitung, 1876, p. 801; and Flora Brasiliensis, fasc. 85, p. 405.

[2168] Stieler, Hand Atlas, edit. 1867, map 3.