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Coccolobis Uvifera was first noticed in the United States by Bernard Romans, who described it 
in his Concise Natural History of East and West Florida, published in 1775. According to 
Aiton,” it was introduced as early as 1690 into Europe,’ where, and in Asia,‘ it is occasionally culti- 
vated in botanic gardens. 
1 “ Coccoloba, or seaside plumb, growing in bunches, an almost 8 Willdenow, Enum. 431. — Link, Enum. i. 386. — Desfontaines, 
round veined leaf, & the fruit blue, inclined to purple.” (21.) Cat. Hort. Paris, ed. 3, 69. — Endlicher, Cat. Hort. Vindobd. i. 273. 
2 Hort. Kew. ii. 34. 4 Voigt, Hort. Sub. Calcutt. 326. 
