H.AM;; (1,1.11 , \li.l. KOU Til Kill .1.1 I) I 



In Egypt the cultivation of thin Mpecies is nerhap* 

 not v.-.y ancient. The monuments of ttni.'imiy btai no 



l.iac.-. >l it < ;!;,, |;..,n,;,n anlhoi . who |.n.-\\ lh-- roui 

 did not (-.peak of it, no i lah-i IVohpcr Alpin. I'Vii I ..I. and 



Oeiih- Wo must refer to a modem vrork< that of 



Schwcinfurl.il and A.".ch<-i ..on, to lind mention of the 

 Hpcci.-.i. and I cannot -vn >h .-,.. i ; ,.n A rah name,. 1 

 'I'hu :i hotany, hi-.toi y, and phill<,"y point to n.n Indian 

 origin The flora ol linti >h India, in which th.: < Jrainin;<: 

 have not ye,t ajjx-;u I, .'.ill )) hap , l.i-ll n. tin- phi.nl, 

 ha.; !)<-<-n found \\ild in i'-f<-nt ex ploi i.tion i. 



A ncai I y i>.lli'-d ;peci<- . i . ;-i own in A l.y . .iiu;i. ( /'.'! ii '< ,,< 



Tor.uHHa, J^reMeniuH^ a plant very little known, which i.-. 

 peihapi a native, of Afuca. 



Rice (Jryta wilim. Linruf;UH. 



In the ceremony in fUtoted by the Chinese Emperor 



( linn non;', :/,()') y.-;..i : i: ' , i ice ph..', . the pi incipal p 



The reigning emperor mu .t himself sow it, wherean thi 

 four other species are or maybe sown hy th. p/ince ,i 

 hi; family* The five species are considered by the 

 ( hinese as indigenoiiH, and it must bo admitted that tin 

 i. prohaUy th.- '..,- .-.ith i A i in general uw*. 



and has been so for a long time, in a country intersect i 

 by canaU and rivers, aim hence peculiarly favourau 

 to aquatic plants, BotaninU have not sufficiently stud led 

 < hinese plants for UH to know whether rice is often found 

 outside cultivated ground; but Loureiro 4 had seen it in 

 marshes in Gochin-Chirta, 



Bumphius and modern writers upon the Malay 



Archipelago ^ivc, it only a;i a r;ultivated plan). 'II,.: 



multitude of names and varieties point* to a very anci < . i 

 cultivation. In British India it dates at least from the 

 Aryan invasion, for rice has Sanskrit names, 



8er*rl irnonf m n4 ib Arabic mtme in 



y I./, /^./ /.//o/ /.-/n -/m i-.'j.jp^u, ,,.,n. VV,IMi ? i,ow, 01 IfolM*M "J 'j ,.< ^>. 



Mtbon, which ft not oolii r t<L 

 9 FrMfftins, Oote/. m, JE&r^, JVo**^,, IS04, Bf^r, f, 17, X/,y**., 

 p. HI. 



' ..... :- l'.,'",^'d W:,k*. \,\,. H u,/l U. 



4 Lourafeo, 17. CccM,, . p, 207. 



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