[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.