90 HEXANDRIA. 



ORDER 2. 

 No British Plant of this Order. 

 DiGYNiA. RICE. The native place of Rice, like the other 



Two Pistiiu. sorts of grain in common use, is unknown ; Linnaeus 

 has made it a native of Ethiopia, but has not given 

 his reason for that opinion. It is cultivated in great 

 plenty all over India, where the country will admit of 

 being flooded j in the southern provinces of China, in 

 Cochinchina, Cambodia, Siam, Japan, &c. In Japan 

 it is very white, and of the best quality. 



In the hilly parts of Java, and in many of the 

 eastern islands, rice is planted upon the sides of hills, 

 which can only be watered by rain ; it is, however, 

 planted at the beginning of the rainy, and reaped in 

 the beginning of the dry season ; and is called by the 

 natives Paddy Gunung, which signifies Mountain Rice. 

 In the western part of India this kind is entirely un- 

 known. It is however well known in Cochinchina, 

 where it thrives in dry light soils, mostly on the sides 

 of hills j not requiring more moisture than the usual 

 rains and dews supply, neither being frequent at the 

 season of vegetation. 



Of this genus there is but one species ; but the 

 varieties of Rice, as of other cultivated grain, are in- 

 numerable. 



ORDER 3. 

 trigykia. MEAD0 W SAFFRON is produced in great 

 t T ina e . e Pi " plenty at Abberley, in Worcestershire, and various 



