. The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown [microform] : vol. I, containing I. geographical-botanical, and II. structural and physiological memoirs. Botany; Botany; Botany; Botany; Plant anatomy; Botanique; Botanique; Botanique; Botanique; Botanique. ( 156 BOTANY or CONGO. I > M i^. â I ,f. Banana or Plantain, the Lime, the Orange, the Tamarind, and the Sugar Cane, may be considered as of Asiatic origin. In a former part of this essay, I have suggested that a careful investigation of the geographical distribution of genera might in some cases lend to the determination of the native
. The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown [microform] : vol. I, containing I. geographical-botanical, and II. structural and physiological memoirs. Botany; Botany; Botany; Botany; Plant anatomy; Botanique; Botanique; Botanique; Botanique; Botanique. ( 156 BOTANY or CONGO. I > M i^. â I ,f. Banana or Plantain, the Lime, the Orange, the Tamarind, and the Sugar Cane, may be considered as of Asiatic origin. In a former part of this essay, I have suggested that a careful investigation of the geographical distribution of genera might in some cases lend to the determination of the native country of plants at present generally dispersed. The value of the assistance to be derived from the source referred to, would amount to this; that, in doubtful cases, where other arguments were equal, it would appear more probable that the plant in question should belong to that country in which all the other species of the same genus were found decidedly indigenous, than to that where it was the only species of the genus known to exist. It seems to me that this reason- 470] ing may be applied with advantage towards determining the original country of several of the plants here enumerated, especially of the Banana, the Papaw, the Capsicum, and Tobacco. The Banana is generally considered to be of Indian origin: Baron Humboldt, however, has lately suggested* that several species of Musa may possibly be confounded under the names of Plantain and Banana; and that part of these species may be supposed to be indigenous to America. How far the general tradition said to obtain both in Mexico, and Terra Pirma, as well as the assertion of Garcilasso de la Vega respecting Peru, may estabhsh the fact of the Musa having been cultivated in the new continent before the arrival of the Spaniards/ I do not mean at present to inquire. But in opposition to the conjecture referred to, it may be advanced that there is no circumstance in the structure of any of the states of the Banana or Plantain
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