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VARIOUS TYPES OF JOB'S TEARS 



The plant known as Job's tears (Coix lachryma-jobi), an Asiatic relative of maize, is grown 

 not only as a source of beads, but also as a cereal. The seeds of the lower six groups shown in this 

 photograph have the waxy type of endosperm first found in maize from China. Most of the 

 samples which have waxy endosperm are soft-shelled, the one exception being the central group 

 in the lower row, which is hard-shelled. The central group in the upper row is the form commonly 

 cultivated in Europe and America as a source of beads. , • . . 



Beginning at the upper left-hand corner, the sources of seed and localities from which they 

 came will be found in the table in the following order: 34, 49, 4, 37, 43, 27, 18, 21, 11, 8, 13, 45, 

 33, 36, 45. The seeds are natural size. (Fig. 6.) 



