Origin of Cultivated Plants / The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII

by Alphonse de Candolle

[2169] Stieler, ibid., map 9.

[2170] Grisebach, Flora of Brit. W. Indies, p. 552.

[2171] Eugène Fournier has indicated to me, for instance, drdapala (with hard fruit), palakecara (with hairy fruit), jalakajka (water-holder), etc.

[2172] Blume, Rumphia, iii. p. 82.

[2173] Forster, De Plantis Esculentis, p. 48; Nadeaud, Enum. des Plantes de Taiti, p. 41.

[2174] Blume, ubi supra.

[2175] Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc., p. 24.

[2176] Seemann, Fl. Vitiensis, p. 276; Pickering, Chronol. Arrangement, p. 428.

[2177] Dr. Bretschneider writes to me from Pekin, Dec. 22, 1882, that the species is mentioned in the Ryd, a work of the year 1100 B.C. I do not know if we must suppose the original habitat to be China or western Asia.

[2178] Essai sur la Géographie des Plantes, p. 28.