1944
Herodotus, lib. i. cap. 193.
1945
Pliny, Hist., lib. xviii. cap. 7. This may also be the variety or species known as bicolor.
1946
W. Hooker, Niger Flora.
1947
Schweinfurth and Ascherson, Aufzählung, p. 299.
1948
Bon Jardinier, 1880, p. 585.
1949
Franchet and Savatier, Enum. Plant. Japon., ii. p. 172.
1950
Bon Jardinier, ibid.
1951
Roxburgh, Fl. Indica, edit. 2, vol. i. p. 343.
1952
Boyle, Ill. Him. Plants.
1953
Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeylan., p. 371
1954
Several synonyms and the Arabic name in Linnæus, Delile, etc., apply to Dactyloctenium ægyptiacum, Willdenow, or Eleusine ægyptiaca of some authors, which is not cultivated.
1955
Fresenius, Catal. Sem. Horti. Francof., 1834, Beitr. z. Fl. Abyss., p. 141.
1956
Stanislas Julien, in Loiseleur, Consid. sur les Céréales, part i. p. 29; Bretschneider, Study and Value of Chinese Botanical Works, pp. 8 and 9.
1957
Loureiro, Fl. Cochin., i. p. 267.
1958
Piddington, Index; Hehn, Culturpflanzen, edit. 3, p. 437.
1959
Theophrastus, Hist., lib. iv. cap. 4, 10.
1960
Strabo, Géographie, Tardieu’s translation, lib. xv. cap. 1, § 18; lib. xv. cap. 1. § 53.
1961
Reynier, Économie des Arabes et des Juifs (1820), p. 450; Économie Publique et Rurale des Égyptiens et des Carthaginois (1823), p. 324.
1962
Unger mentions none; Birch, in 1878, furnishes a note to Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, ii. p. 402, “There is no proof of the cultivation of rice, of which no grains have been found.”
1963
Reynier, ibid.
1964
Targioni, Cenni Storici.
1965
Crawfurd, in Journal of Botany, 1866, p. 324.
1966
Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 1832, vol. ii. p. 200.
1967
Aitchinson, Catal. Punjab., p. 157.
1968
Nees, in Martius, Fl. Brasil., in 8vo, ii. p. 518; Baker, Fl. of Mauritius, p. 458.