2044
He says, for instance, of Gossypium herbaceum, which is certainly of the old world, as facts known before his time show, “habitat in America.”
2045
Nascitur in calidis humidisque cultis præcipue locis (Hernandez, Novæ Hispaniæ Thesaurus, p. 308).
2046
Hemsley, Biologia Centrali-Americana, i. p. 123.
2047
Macfadyen, Flora of Jamaica, p. 72.
2048
Grisebach, Flora of Brit. W. India Is., p. 86.
2049
Triana and Planchon, Prodr. Fl. Novo-Granatensis, p. 170.
2050
The Malvaceæ have not yet appeared in the Flora Brasiliensis.
2051
Cl. Gay, Flora Chilena, i. p. 312.
2052
The Gardener’s Chronicle of Sept. 4, 1880, gives details about the cultivation of this plant, the use of its seeds, and the extensive exportation of them from the west coast of Africa, Brazil, and India to Europe.
2053
A. de Candolle, Géographie Botanique Raisonnée, p. 962.
2054
Linnæus, Species Plantarum, p. 1040.
2055
R. Brown, Botany of Congo, p. 53.
2056
Bentham, in Trans. Linn. Soc., xviii. p. 159; Walpers, Repertorium, i. p. 727.
2057
Maregraf and Piso, Brasil., p. 37, edit. 1648.
2058
Ibid., edit. 1638, p. 256.
2059
Acosta, Hist. Nat. Ind., French, trans., 1598, p. 165.
2060
Aublot, Pl. Guyan, p. 765.
2061
Sloane, Jamaica, p. 184.
2062
Guillemin and Perrottet, Fl. Senegal.
2063
Loureiro, Fl. Cochin.
2064
Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., iii. p. 280; Piddington, Index.
2065
Rumphius, Herb. Amb., v. p. 426.
2066
Rochebrune, from the extract in the Botanisches Centralblatt, 1880, p. 1634.
2067
Study and Value of Chinese Botanical Works, p. 18.
2068
Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. Is., p. 189.