Arum Egyptium, Columma, Ecphrasis, ii. p. 1, tab. 1; Rumphius, Amboin, vol. v. tab. 109. Arum colocasia and A. esculentum, Linnæus; Colocasia antiquorum, Schott, Melet., i. 18; Engler, in D. C. Monog. Phaner., ii. p. 491.
265
Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., iii. p. 495.
266
Wight, Icones, t. 786.
267
Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeylan., p. 335.
268
Miquel, Sumatra, p. 258.
269
Rumphius, Amboin, vol. v. p. 318.
270
Bretschneider, On the Study and Value, etc., p. 12.
271
Forster, De Plantis Escul., p. 58.
272
Franchet and Savatier, Enum., p. 8; Seemann, Flora Vitiensis, p. 284.
273
Roxburgh, Fl. Ind.
274
Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeylan.
275
Rumphius, Amboin.
276
Miquel, Sumatra, p. 258; Hasskarl, Cat. Horti. Bogor. Alter., p. 55.
277
Forster, De Plantis Escul., p. 58.
278
Seemann, Flora Vitiensis.
279
Franchet and Savatier, Enum.
280
Pliny, Hist., l. 19, c. 5.
281
Alpinus, Hist. Ægypt. Naturalis, edit. 2, vol. i. p. 166; ii. p. 192.
282
Delile, Fl. Ægypt. Ill., p. 28; De la Colocase des Anciens, in 8vo, 1846.
283
Clusius, Historia, ii. p. 75.
284
Parlatore, Fl. Ital., ii. p. 255.
285
Prosper Alpinus, Hist. Ægypt. Naturalis; Columna; Delile, Ann. du Mus., i. p. 375; De la Colocase des Anciens; Reynier, Economie des Egyptiens, p. 321.
286
See Engler, in D. C. Monographiæ Phanerogarum, ii. p. 502.
287
Forster, De Plantis Esculentis Insularum Oceani Australis, p. 58.
288
Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl., p. 336.
289
Nadeaud, Enum. des Plantes Indigènes, p. 40.
290
Engler, in D. C. Monog. Phaner.
291
Bentham, Flora Austr., viii. p. 155.
292
Engler, in D. C. Monogr. Phaner., vol. ii. p. 313.
293
Gardener’s Chronicle, 1873, p. 610; Flore des Serres et Jardins, t. 1958, 1959; Hooker, Bot. Mag., t. 6195.
294
Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Pl. Japoniæ, ii. p. 7.
295
M. Sagot, Bull. de la Soc. Bot. de France, 1871, p. 306, has well described the growth and cultivation of yams, as he has studied them in Cayenne.
296
Kunth, Enumeratio, vol. v.
297
These are D. globosa, alata, rubella, fasciculata, purpurea, of which two or three appear to be merely varieties.
298
Piddington, Index.
299
Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl., p. 326.
300
Decaisne, Histoire et Culture de l’Igname de Chine, in the Revue Horticole, 1st July and Dec. 1853; Flore des Serres et Jardins, x. pl. 971.
301
On the Study and Value, etc., p. 12.
302
Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Plant. Japoniæ, ii. p. 47.
303
Blume, Enum. Plant. Javæ, p. 22.
304
Forster, Plant. Esculent., p. 56; Rumphius, Amboin, vol. v., pl. 120, 121, etc.
305
Hughes, Hist. Nat. Barb., 1750, p. 226.
306
Humboldt, Nouvelle Espagne, 2nd edit., vol. ii. p. 468.
307
Ibid., p. 403.
308
Hænke, in Presl, Rel., p. 133.
309
Martius, Fl. Bras., v. p. 43.
310
Sagot, Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1871, p. 305.
311
Hooker, Fl. Nigrit, p. 53.
312
Schumacher and Thonning, Besk. Guin, p. 447.
313
Brown, Congo, p. 49.
314
Bojer, Hortus Mauritianus.
315
See Tussac’s description, Flore des Antilles, i. p. 183.
316
Hooker, Niger Flora, p. 531.
317
Sloane, Jamaica, 1707, vol. i. p. 254.
318
In Bull. Soc. des Natur. de Moscou, 1822, vol. i. p. 34.
319
Aublet, Guyane, i. p. 3.
320
Meyer, Flora Essequibo, p. 11.
321
Seemann, Bot. of Herald., p. 213.
322
Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., i. p. 31; Porter, The Tropical Agriculturalist p. 241; Ainslie, Materia Medica, i. p. 19.
323
Fries, Summa, p. 29; Nylander, Conspectus, p. 46; Bentham, Handb. Brit. Fl., edit. 4, p. 40; Mackay, Fl. Hibern., p. 28; Brebisson, Fl. de Normandie, edit. 2, p. 18; Babbington, Primitiæ Fl. Sarnicæ, p. 8; Clavaud, Flore de la Gironde, i. p. 68.
324
Bertoloni, Fl. Ital., vii. p. 146; Nylander, Conspectus.
