[749] Humboldt, in Kunth, Nova Genera, i. p. 297.
[750] Grisebach, Fl. of Brit. W. Ind. Is., p. 582.
[751] Alph. de Candolle, Géogr. Bot. Raisonnée, p. 739; H. Hoffmann, in Regel’s Gartenflora, 1875, p. 70.
[752] K. Ritter, Ueber die Geographische Verbreitung des Zuckerrohrs, in 4to, 108 pages (according to Pritzel, Thes. Lit. Bot.); Die Cultur des Zuckerrohrs, Saccharum, in Asien, Geogr. Verbreitung, etc., etc., in 8vo, 64 pages, without date. This monograph is full of learning and judgment, worthy of the best epoch of German science, when English or French authors were quoted by all authors with as much care as Germans.
[753] Kunth, Enum. Plant. (1838), vol. i. p. 474. There is no more recent descriptive work on the family of the Gramineæ, nor the genus Saccharum.
[754] Miquel, Floræ Indiæ Batavæ, 1855, vol. iii. p. 511.
[755] Aitchison, Catalogue of Punjab and Sindh Plants, 1869, p. 173.
[756] Thwaites, Enum. PI. Zeyloniæ.
[757] Crawfurd, Indian Archip., i. p. 475.
[758] Forster, De Plantis Esculentis.