[1939] Brown, Bot. of Congo, p. 544.
[1940] Schmidt, Beiträge zur Flora Capverdischen Inseln, p. 158.
[1941] See Host, Graminæ Austriacæ, vol. iv. pl. 4.
[1942] Roxburgh, Fl. Ind., edit. 2, vol. i. p. 271; Rumphius, Amboin., v. p. 194, pl. 75, fig. 1; Miquel, Fl. Indo-Batava, iii. p. 503; Bretschneider, Study and Value, etc., pp. 9, 46; Loureiro, Fl. Cochin., ii. p. 792.
[1943] Forskal, Delile, Schweinfurth, and Ascherson, ubi supra.
[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.