BOTANY. 145 



MAIZE. 



Maize, or Indian corn is more generally grown than mil" 

 let, and " green corn " is a common article in market, 

 but it is hard and insipid, decidedly inferior to Americ an 

 corn. 



Zea Mays. 



WHEAT. 



Wheat is grown largely in Burmah, but I have never 

 seen it under culture in these Provinces, although Com- 

 missioner Durand made an attempt to introduce it. I 

 have no doubt, however, but on the Karen mountains the 

 cultivator would reap an ample harvest. 

 Triticum vulgare. 



c^sfoScooooSo (Classic name.) 



o^coosoulgB {Vulgar (C ) 



qj[oul8« (Bengali " ) 



BARLEY. 



" This last grain," says Crawfurd, speaking of barley, 

 " is not known to the natives, and when we pointed it out, 

 they imagined it to be unripe grains of wheat." Notwith- 

 standing this testimony, the Burmese have a name for 

 barley which frequently occur sin their books. It consti- 

 tutes one of their seven kinds of saba or cereal grasses, and 

 its corresponding Pali name is identical with the Sanscrit 

 name of barley. 



Hordeum hexastichon. 



BAMBOO SEED. 



In times of scarcity the seeds of the bamboo have often 

 been used by the Karens as a substitute for rice. 

 Bambusa. 

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