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in 1648, and was first noticed in the United States on Key West. According to Aiton, it was 
cultivated in England in 1755 by Philip Miller. 
Alno affinis Americana, Ligustri folio, fructu spicato rubro, Breyne, Alni fructu, laurifolia arbor maritima, Sloane, Cat. Pl. Jam. 135 ; 
Prodr. ii. ed. 1739, 41. — Plukenet, Alm. Bot. 18. Nat. Hist. Jam. ii. 18, t. 161, f. 2. — Ray, Hist. Pl. in. Dendr. 11. 
Manghala arbor Curassavica, foliis salignis, Hermann, Parad. Bat. Conocarpus, Linneus, Hort. Cliff. 485. 
Prodr. 351.— Commelyn, Hort. 115, t. 60.— Catesby, Nat. Hist. Conocarpus foliis oblongis, petiolis brevibus, floribus in caput cont- 
Car. ii. 33, t. 33. cum collectis, Browne, Nat. Hist. Jam. 159. 
Alnus maritima Myrtifolia Coriariorum, Plukenet, Phyt. t. 240, Conocarpus erecta, foliis oblongis, Plumier, Pl. Am. ed. Burmann, 
f. 3. 
135, t. 144, f. 2. 
