34 VARIETAL CHARACTERS OF INDIAN WHEATS. 
grown. These 18 types belong to 11 botanical varieties and 
are equally divided into bearded and beardless, there being 9 types 
belonging to each class. Among the 18 varieties only 5 are felted 
but among these felted types are to be found some of the best wheats 
of the Punjab. The range in quality is very various, type 9, one of 
best being a good wheat fit for export, whereas some have a most 
inferior grain hardly worth growing for local consumption. 
var. barbarossa Al. 
Type 8. Ears bearded; awns red; chaff felted with short, 
rather sparse hairs, yellowish red; grain dark red, consistency vari- 
able, hard, soft and mottled grains found in about equal pro- 
portions; ear length 78 mm.; D =24; straw good; ears erect and 
rather slender. 
This type was found in the Lal Kasar-wali of Lyallpur in 
very small quantity. 
var. fuliginosum Al. 
Type 9. Ears bearded; awns stiff, stout, rather short, black 
but lose their colour very easily; glumes sharply keeled to the 
base; chaff densely felted with long hairs, the felting resembles 
very closely that found on the macaronis, chaff greyish white or 
yellowish white, pink at the edges, generally with black spots of 
Cladosporium ; grain very dark red, on the whole hard with a 
few mottled grains, the shape resembling that of a common 
wheat; ear quadratic in section, somewhat club-shaped at the 
top, somewhat compact; ear length variable about 70 mm. on 
the average; D=25; straw stiff, stout, hollow throughout; 
ears very erect. 
This type was found in the Lal of Batala, Ratti of Montgomery 
and in the Lal Kale Kasar-wali of Lyallpur, it was also found in 
small quantity in the Lal Desi of Jhelum, Lal of Delhi, Pamman 
of Ferozepore, Dagar of Multan, Kunjhari of Muzaffargarh, 
