G. P. HECTOR 175 
We have seen above that the colour in the vegetative parts of Pankhiraj 
forms a pattern, viz. “coloured leaf-sheath, apiculus, stigma,” segregating 
3 coloured: 1 green in Fz. Considered in relation to this colour in the 
vegetative parts, we find the colour of the ripe glumes segregates 
independently, giving 9 coloured, black : 3 coloured, yellow-brown : 3 green, 
black : 1 green,yellow-brown. Actual numbers observed were 401 coloured 
black : 114 green, black: 113 coloured, yellow-brown : 44 green, yellow- 
brown. 
2. Variety Matichak x Pookhi. The ripe glume of Matichak (Fig. 2) 
is almost indistinguishable from that of Pankhiraj, and segregation is 
in the same simple 3: 1 ratio of black: yellow-brown, and independent of 
colour in the vegetative parts, as in No. l. 
Actual figures obtained in three families examined were— 
Coloured plants | Coloured plants Green plants | Green plants 
Black glumes ' Yellow glumes Black glumes Yellow glumes 
225 oo 64 30 
279 72 127 27 
202 47 45 16 
— Re 
ToTaL 706 178 239 73 
3. Variety Noachur x Pookhi. Here the glume colour of both parents 
is almost indistinguishable and incapable of analysis in Fg. 
4, Variety Muramagar x Pookhi. The glume colour of both parents 
is almost indistinguishable and incapable of analysis. 
5. Variety Surjamukhi x Pookhi. The ripe glume of Surjamukhi is a 
brick-red colour ( Fig. 5). In the F, of this cross, the Pookhi 
glume (yellow-brown) is dominant, and in F, segregation is into 3 Pookhi 
glumes: 1 Surjamukhi. 
Actually observed 742: 250. 
Here again the ripe glume colour segregates independently of the colour 
in the vegetative parts, which have already been described. At flowering 
time, the glumes which ripen yellow-brown are pure green in colour, those 
which ripen red are a golden green. 
§. Variety Bailabakri x Pookhi. The glume colours of both parents 
are almost indistinguishable, and analysis 1s not possible in F>. 
