1519
Desvaux, Journ. Bot., iv. p. 5.
1520
Caldcleugh, Trav. in S. Amer., 1825, i. p. 23.
1521
Stevenson, Trav. in S. Amer., i. p. 328.
1522
Ibid., p. 363.
1523
Boussingault, C. r. Acad. Sc. Paris, May 9, 1836.
1524
Meyen, Pflanzen Geog., 1836, p. 383.
1525
Ritter, Erdk., iv. p. 870.
1526
Seemann, Bot. of the Herald, p. 213; Ernst, in Seemann’s Journ. of Bot., 1867, p. 289; Sagot, Journ. de la Soc. d’Hort. de Fr., 1872, p. 226.
1527
Martius, Eth. Sprachenkunde Amer., p. 123.
1528
Roxburgh and Wallich, Fl. Ind., ii. p. 485; Piddington, Index.
1529
Pliny, Hist., lib. xii. cap. 6.
1530
Unger, ubi supra, and Wilkinson, ii. p. 403, do not mention it. The banana is now cultivated in Egypt.
1531
Forster, Plant. Esc., p. 28.
1532
Clusius, Exot., p. 229; Brown, Bot. Congo, p. 51.
1533
Roxburgh, Corom., tab. 275; Fl. Ind.
1534
Rumphius, Amb., v. p. 139.
1535
Loureiro, Fl. Coch., p. 791.
1536
Loureiro, Fl. Coch., p. 791.
1537
Blanco, Flora, 1st edit., p. 247.
1538
Finlayson, Journey to Siam, 1826, p. 86, according to Ritter, Erdk., iv. p. 878.
1539
Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Cey., p. 321.
1540
Aitchison, Catal. of Punjab, p. 147.
1541
Hughes, Barb., p. 182; Maycock, Fl. Barb., p. 396.
1542
Sloane, Jamaica, ii. p. 148.
1543
Piso, edit. 1648, Hist. Nat., p. 75.