2144
Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., iii. p. 616; Brandis, Forest Fl. of India, p. 551; Kurz, Forest Fl. of Brit. Burmah, p. 537; Thwaites, Enum. Zeylan., p. 327; Loureiro, Fl. Cochin-Ch., p. 695.
2145
Blume, Rumphia, ii. p. 67; Miquel, Fl. Indo-Batava., iii. p. 9; suppl. de Sumatra, p. 253.
2146
Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc., p. 28.
2147
Blanco, Fl. di Filipinas, edit. 2.
2148
Da Mosto, in Ramusio, i. p. 104, quoted by R. Brown.
2149
Brown, Bot. of Congo, p. 55.
2150
Martius, Hist. Nat. Palmarum, ii. p. 62; Drude, in Fl. Brasil., fasc. 85, p. 457. I find no author who asserts that this palm is wild in Guiana, as Martius affirms it to be in Brazil.
2151
Elæis melanocarpa, Gærtner. The fruit also contains oil, but it does not appear that the species is cultivated, as the number of oleaginous plants is considerable in all countries.
2152
Sloane, Nat. Hist. of Jamaica, ii. p. 113.
2153
Grisebach, Flora of Brit. W. Ind. Is., p. 522.
2154
Piso, Brasil., p. 65; Marcgraf, p. 138.
2155
Martius, Hist. Nat. Palmarum, 3 vols. in folio; see vol. ii. p. 125.
2156
Aublet, Guyane, suppl., p. 102.
2157
Sloane, Jamaica, ii. p. 9.
2158
J. Acosta, Hist. Nat. des Indes, French trans., 1598, p. 178.
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.