tARNfitL, llAi^GASWAMt AYYANGAH, ANt) RAMlAH 



Table XIX. 

 Red rice. 3 : 1 ratio. 



101 



In the individual families shown in the above table the ligJit colour groups 

 were all ivJiite since the parents, Sadai Samba and Boru Murutliagna Bhatta 

 were white and red respectively. In the twenty-two families shown together 

 the ligld colour groups varied. In some cases the group was uniform, either 

 white or some definitely light shade of red or brown, whereas in other cases 

 two or more types were present in the same grouj). In all cases they were very 

 definitely distinct from the full-red group. 



A similar simple o : 1 ratio of red : white rice has been recorded by 

 Hector^ McKerral-, Thompstone^, and Van der Stok*. 



In certain exceptional cases a definite departure from this simple ratio 

 was obtained. 



Two natural crosses possessing red rice gave three definite groups in Fo, 

 viz., full-red, grey-broivn, and white. The greg-hwwn type of colouring was 

 a distinct type which did not occur in any of the families of Table XIX. The 

 ground-colour was a dull light giey and over this a distinct brown appeared in 

 small scattered spots giving the grain a dingy granular appearance as of white 

 rice rubbed with soil (Plate V, fig. 2). A definite brown line occurred fairly 

 constantly on the ventral edge of the grain. 



1 Hector, G. P., I.e., p. 8. 



2 McKerral, A., I.e., p. 326. 



3 Thompstone, E., I.e., p. 45. 



* Van (Icr Stok, J. E., I.e., p. 47, 



