22 THE WHEATS OF BALUCHISTAN 



var. Humboldti Kcke. 



Baluchistdn Class X. Ears very short, beardless ; glumes smooth, wliite ; 

 grain small, round, white, hard. 



"WTieats belonging to this species are not cultivated in Balucliistan although 

 they are fairly common in the adjacent Province of the Punjab. Only a very 

 small quantity of a wheat belonging to this class was found as an impurity 

 in two samples of wheat Thori and Warn, both from Gandava. Kachhi, Kalat. 



Triticum vulgare Vill. Common wheats. 



Ears bearded or beardless ; outer glumes not keeled to the base ; straw 

 hollow ; grain neither very long nor round. 



var. ba rba ro.'i.-ni Al. 



Baluchistan Class XI. Ears quadratic in section, dense and somewhat 

 short, bearded ; awns black ; chaft" densely felted with long hairs, pale red; 

 grain red. 



Only one wheat belonguig to this class was found in Mdloshay from Kech, 

 Makran. 



Baluchistan Class Xll. Ears bearded ; glumes somewhat short and 

 rounded, felted, reddish brown with some black ; grain red, small and 

 ntunded. 



Wheat belonging to this class was only found as an impurity in very 

 small ((uantity. 



iialuchistan Class Xlll. Ears long, bearded : awns reddish brown : 

 chaiy felted, reddish br(t\vii ; grain pale red. rather large : straw strong. 



Wheats behoiging to this class were also found in small quantity unly 

 as inq)urities in Spiti (j/khhok from 8anjawi. Loralai ; in Spin ylunuim from 

 liori. Loralai : in Sjiiu glianani from Kila Sa if ulla. Upper Zhob : in a sam])le 

 of Hall iti\i from some distiict unknown and in a sanqtle from Macli. 



Bahuhi-tiin Class XJ\'. Ears slutrt. somewhat dense, bearded ; awns 

 short and light red ; glunu's red with a bluish bloom : straw thin to medium ; 

 grain short, red. somewhat rounded. 



This was found in very small (luautity as an inqiunty in a sample of 

 wheat from Mach and in Than wheat from Nasirabad, tSibi. 



