INDEX. 



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Page. 

 Cotton, American types introduced into 



West Africa 286 



widely distributed in pre-Columbian 



America 275 



Cuba, Columbus's report of coconuts . . . 279-281, 339 

 Cumberland, Duke of, account of coconuts in 



Porto Rico 283,340 



Dampier, visit to Cocos Island 292 



Date palm confused with coconuts 279, 282 



heat requirements compared with coco- 

 nut 336 



planted in Santo Domingo 279 



Date trees, name applied to coconuts 276, 278 



De Candolle, A., earliest reference to coconut 



in West Indies 283 



mention of coconuts on Pacific coast 279 



on coconut in Brazil 284 



on coconut in West Africa 2S6 



on introduction of coconuts into America. 271 

 on introduction of sweet potatoes into 



America 271 



on palms of Cocos Island 292 



overlooks statement of Columbus 282 



quotation of Sloane 275 



reference to Oviedo .. . . 280 



De Vries, n., reference to 321 



Double coconut 326 



Doum palm in Egypt 338 



Early accounts of the coconut palm in 



America 275 



East Indies, untested varieties of coconuts in. 337 

 Economic status of coconut in tropical 



America 288 



Eden, Richard, addition to Martyr's account 



of the coconut 277 



translation of Oviedo 278, 270 



Egypt, possibility of introducing coconut 



into, from Ceylon 338 



Egypt, Upper, possibilities of coconut 337,338 



Elaei?, importance in West Africa 286 



guineensis, distribution 304 



melanococca, reference to, as date tree 278 



Ernst, Prof. A... quotation from 301 



Ethnological conclusions 340 



Euterpe, on Cocos Island 291 



Fendler, G., reference to 323 



Fiber palm, domestication in Brazil 309 



Ficus bengalensis an ornamental about Cairo. 338 



elastica an ornamental about Cairo 33.8 



Fig trees in Santa Domingo 279 



Florida, coconut industry 273, 337 



France, Jubaea chilensls in 336 



Germination, adaptations for, in Acrocornia 



and Attalea 328 



adaptations for, in the coconut 324-329 



Greene, E. L., reference to 315 



Guatemala, domesticated palms 310 



pine forests 278 



Guilielma cultivated by prehistoric Indians . 285 



Guppy, H. B., views 301 



Haiti, Columbus in 291 



Hat palmetto, i n Porto Rico 311 



Hawaii, coconut industry 272 



Hedley, quotation from 



Helianthus tuberosus, introduction into Eu- 



299 



rope. 



Hernandez, Francisco, criticism of, by Ve- 



lasco • 288 



Herndon, W. L., quotation from 306-307 



Historians, early, not familiar with coconut. . 274 



Historical conclusions 339 



History, relation of agriculture to 272 



Honduras, pine forests 278 



Hooker, W . J., quotation from 2S6 



Home, W. T., work on coconut diseases 289 



Humboldt, report of coconuts in Colombia. . . 286 



"Inaiamira," Brazilian name for species of 



cocos 285 



"Inaiaguacu," Brazilian name for coconut 



fruit 284 



" Inaiaguacuiba," Brazilian name for coconut 



tree 284 



Indians, American, maritime skill of 294 



Inksetter, W. E., observations of 297 



Inodes causiarum, leaves used for hats 311 



Jardine, W., quotations from 300, 330 



Jerusalem artichoke, introduction into Eu- 

 rope 274 



Johnston, J. R., work on disease of coconut. . 289 

 Jubaea chilensis, hardy palm related to the 



coconut 335 



Jukes, quotation from 298 



Killermann, Seb., on early introduction of 



American plants into Europe 274 



Kirkwood and Gies, quotations from 329 



Knowlton, F. H., reference to 304 



Kroo tribe, superstitious fear of planting coco- 

 nuts 286 



use only small boats 295 



Landor, A. H. S., observations on African 



palms 331 



Las Casas, notes on Columbus's Journal 281 



Leather, J. W., suitability of coconuts to cer- 

 tain Indian soils 331 



Lemon, in Santo Domingo 279 



Lever, E. A., prehistoric coconut presented 



by 288 



Liberia, superstitions of natives regarding 



coconuts 286 



Lodoicea maldivica 32G 



" Lulum," name for coconut fruit in Quito. . . 287 



Maize. See corn, Indian. 



Malay varieties, origin 339 



Malays, importance of coconuts among 288 



Marcgrave on Congo names of coconut 286 



Markham, C. II., translation of Columbus's 



Journal 281 



valuation of the work of Cieza de Leon. . . 287 

 Martius, C. F. P., on Brazilian names of the 



coconut 316 



the coconut in West Africa 286 



Martyr, Peter, account of "black Moors" in 



America 295 



account of Caribs 291 



allusions to the coconut 275 



on East Indian name of the coconut 315 



work called " De Orbe Novo " 277 



