1598.—"There is a kind of fruit called Lechyas, which are like Plums, but of another taste, and are very good, and much esteemed, whereof I have eaten."—Linschoten, 38; [Hak. Soc. i. 131].
1631.—"Adfertur ad nos præterea fructus quidam Lances (read Laices) vocatus, qui racematim, ut uvæ, crescit."—Jac. Bontii, Dial. vi. p. 11.
1684.—"Latsea, or Chinese Chestnuts."—Valentijn, iv. (China) 12.
1750-52.—"Leicki is a species of trees which they seem to reckon equal to the sweet orange trees.... It seems hardly credible that the country about Canton (in which place only the fruit grows) annually makes 100,000 tel of dried leickis."—Olof Toreen, 302-3.
1824.—"Of the fruits which this season offers, the finest are leeches (sic) and mangoes; the first is really very fine, being a sort of plum, with the flavour of a Frontignac grape."—Heber, i. 60.
c. 1858.—
"Et tandis que ton pied, sorti de la babouche,
Pendait, rose, au bord du manchy (see [MUNCHEEL])
À l'ombre des bois noirs touffus, et du Letchi,
Aux fruits moins pourpres que ta bouche."