[2644] The connexion between Jamaica and Central America dates back from the time of Charles II., during whose reign (1661-85), the king of the Mosquito Territory, a district never conquered by the Spaniards, applied to the governor of Jamaica for protection, which was accorded. The protectorate lasted until 1860, when Mosquitia was ceded to the government of Nicaragua.
[2645] Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, i. (1707), introduction, p. lxxxvi.
[2646] Blue Books—Island of Jamaica for 1870 and 1871.
[2647] Journ. of Linn. Soc., Bot., iv. (1860) 185.
[2648] Vice-Consul Smith on the commerce of Ecuador—Consular Reports, presented to Parliament, July, 1872.
[2649] Yearbook of Pharm. 1878. 136.
[2650] See Christophson, in Dragendorff’s Jahresbericht, 1874. 155.
[2651] Elements of Mat. Med. ii. (1850) 1168.
[2652] “Sankira,” p. 783 in the first work [quoted in the Appendix]; another fig. will be found in Nees von Esenbeck’s Plantæ medicinales, Düsseldorf, 1828.
[2653] Trimen’s Journ. of Bot. i. (1872) 102.—S. glabra and S. lanceæfolia have been figured by Seemann in his Botany of the Herald, 1852-57, tabb. 99-100. S. China is well represented in the Kew Herbarium, where we have examined specimens from Nagasaki, Hakodadi, and Yokohama; from Loochoo, Corea, Formosa, Ningpo; and Indian ones from Khasia, Assam, and Nepal.