“It is certainly not meant, however, to employ this 
reasoning in every case, and in opposition to all other evi-. 
dence; and instances may be found, even among the ali- 
mentary plants, where it is very far from satisfactory. Thus 
the Cocoa Nut, though it will probably be considered as 
indigenous to the shores and islands of equinoctial Asia, is 
yet the only species of its genus that does not belong ex- 
clusively to America.” Brown obs. on Herb. of the Congo. 
