When I said that the cultivation of rice in India was probably more recent than in China, I did not mean that the plant was not wild there. It belongs to a family of which the species cover wide areas, and, besides, aquatic plants have commonly more extensive habitations than others. Rice existed, perhaps, before all cultivation in Southern Asia from China to Bengal, as is shown by the variety of names in the monosyllabic languages of the races between India and China.[1965] It has been found outside cultivation in several Indian localities, according to Roxburgh.[1966] He says that wild rice, called _newaree_ by the Telingas, grows in abundance on the shores of lakes in the country of the Circars. Its grain is prized by rich Hindus, but it is not planted because it is not very productive. Roxburgh has no doubt that this is the original plant. Thomson[1967] found wild rice at Moradabad, in the province of Delhi. Historical reasons support the idea that these specimens are indigenous. Otherwise they might be supposed to be the result of the habitual cultivation of the species, all the more that there are examples of the facility with which rice sows itself and becomes naturalized in warm, damp climates.[1968] In any case historical evidence and botanical probability tend to the belief that rice existed in India before cultivation.[1969] +Maize+—_Zea mays_, Linnæus. “Maize is of American origin, and has only been introduced into the old world since the discovery of the new. I consider these two assertions as positive, in spite of the contrary opinion of some authors, and the doubts of the celebrated agriculturist Bonafous, to whom we are indebted for the most complete treatise upon maize.”[1970] I used these words in 1855, after having already contested the opinion of Bonafous at the time of the publication of his work.[1971] The proofs of an American origin have been since reinforced. Yet attempts have been made to prove the contrary, and as the French name, _blé de Turquie_, gives currency to an error, it is as well to resume the discussion with new data.