attached, others dissociated from the cobs. From these 
groups of specimens it was possible to reconstruct the 
type of maize. 
The length of the intact cob is 6.2 cm., while the 
original length of the two broken cobs appears to have 
been approximately the same. The cob diameters of the 
three specimens average 23 mm.; the rachis diameters 
average 11 mm. ; and the cob/rachis index is 2. The rows 
are irregular and spiral slightly to the left, and in one 
specimen double spiralling is present. ‘The row number 
of the three specimens averages 12.2. 
The cupules of all the cobs are hairy, and in those speci- 
mens where the rachis flap could be examined, it was 
found to be weak. There is a uniformity in the charac- 
teristics of the lower glume. The texture is fleshy with 
no evidence of either hairiness or venation. Likewise, 
there is asimilarity in the upper glumes. They are slightly 
boat-shaped and of a chaffy texture. The surface is gla- 
brous with no evidence of venation. 
The kernels are gray-brown or in some cases black in 
color, with an average length of 7 mm. and an average 
width of 6 mm. The endosperm is hard and flinty, which 
points tothe specimens as being atype of flint corn. This 
type of maize is common in pre-Columbian sites in Peru. 
There is no evidence of imbrication, but, in a few in- 
stances, there is a slight denting of the dorsal surface of 
the kernels. Mangelsdorf (1942) has found both flint and 
dent characteristics in the maize that he examined from 
Paracas Necropolis. 
The presence of maize is recorded for the American 
Museum of Natural History bundle (Natural History, 
41: 119-125), and both Yacovleff and Muelle (1934) and 
Carrion (1949) also mention it in their accounts of the 
bundles that they examined. Certainly from the descrip- 
tions of plant specimens from the archaeological sites of 
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