DeCandolles Origin of Cultivated Plants. 129 
fruit Accotates and Acoyates; Voy. to the W. Indies [Hakluyt 
Soc., 1859], p. 28. 
Oviedo described “the wild pear-tree of the main land,” in 
1526. It grew “in the province of Castillo del Oro (Panama), 
in the sierras of Capira and the country of the cacique of 
Juanaga,” etc. In the revision of his first work, in 1535, he 
adds, that he had, some years before, seen these trees cultivated 
by the Indians in Nicaragua (Hist. gen. y nat., lib. ix, ec. 22). 
It was still a tree of “Terra firma”—not yet introduced into 
the Islands. Clusius saw it in a garden in Valencia—“ said 
to be brought from America”—thirty-five years earlier than 
the date (1601) mentioned by DeCandolle. He described 
the “Persea” in the first edition of his Historia rariorum 
Stirpium, 1576 (lib. i, c. 2), published five years after his 
journey in Spain. 
Passiflora.—This genus is wholly omitted by DeCandolle; 
unaccountably so, considering how much Granadillas have been 
cultivated and prized in tropical countries. A note on the 
subject may not be out of place, as a species was cultivated by 
our own Indians. 
As to early history and aboriginal nomenclature, Monardes 
Sweet, and too sweet, in the opinion of some.” Lery (1557-8 
does not appear to have found it in Brazil, but it was common 
but this seems to have been adopted from the Tupi—for in that 
language Mburucuia denotes the “ fruit of a vine. 
