The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 310
g to maturity becomes pendent: while the tree, ad-vancing in height, casts its lower leaves from beneath the flowers, and thefruit, constituting a large oblong berry or pepo {b), rests suspended uponthe leafless part of the trunk, like the flowers of the Cercis, the spines ofGleditschzrt, or the… … Curtiss Botanical Magazine. 301 tables. Nevertheless, if it were absolutely desirable to give it a station ina linear series, it ought, perhaps, to be referred to the neighbourhood of thet/rticeEe. Almost all the species of Carica are natives of South America, but it hasbeen doubted whether the…