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the pine-apple was cultivated in his time in every part of 

 India, and was found wild in Celebes and elsewhere. He 

 notices, however, the absence of an Asiatic name. That 

 given by Rheede for Malabar is evidently taken from a 

 comparison with the jack-fruit, and is in no sense 

 original. It is doubtless a mistake on the part of 

 Piddington to attribute a Sanskrit name to the pine-apple, 

 as the name aiKtriish seems to be a corruption of ananas. 

 Roxburgh knew of none, and Wilson's dictionary does 

 not mention the word anamsh. Royle -^ says that the 

 pine-apple was introduced into Bengal in 1594. Kirch er ^ 

 says that the Chinese cultivated it in the seventeenth 

 century, but it was believed to have been brought to 

 them from Peru. 



Clusius^ in 1599 had seen leaves of the pine-apple 

 brought from the coast of Guinea. This may be explained 

 by an introduction there subsequent to the discovery of 

 America. Robert Brown speaks of the pine-apple among 

 the plants cultivated in Congo; but he considers the 

 species to be an American one. 



Although the cultivated pine-apple bears few seeds 

 or none at all, it occasionally becomes naturalized in 

 hot countries. Examples are quoted in Mauritius, the 

 Seychelles, and Rodriguez Island,^ in India,^ in the 

 Malay Archipelago, and in some parts of America, where 

 it was probably not indigenous — the West Indies, for 

 instance. 



It has been found wild in the warm regions of Mexico 

 (if we may trust the phrase used by Hernandez), in the 

 province of Veraguas ^ near Panama, in the upper 

 Orinoco valley,"^ in Guiana ^ and the province of Bahia.^ 



* Royle, in., p. 376. 



^ Kircher, Chine Illustree, trans, of 1670, p. 253. 



2 Clusius, Exotic, cap. 44. * Baker, Fl. of Maurit. 



^ Royle, wbi supra. ' Seemann, Bat. of the Herald, p. 215. 



^ Humboldt, Nouv. Esp., 2nd edit., ii. p. 478. 



* Gardeners' Chronicle, 1881, vol. i. p. 657. 



^ Martins, letter to A. de Candolle, Geogr. Bot. Bais., p. 927. 



