HOWARD 37 



(xi) A fully bearded wheat witli white, felted glumes and white grain 

 (var. nieridioHule Kcke. Class XXVI) in sample 3. 



(xii) A bearded wheat with black awns,, felted, greyish white chalf and 

 pale red grain {xa.v.fidiginosum Al. Class XX), 



(xiii) A bearded wheat with short, dense ears, red, felted., rounded glumes 

 and red grain, (var. haihaio.<s(i Al. Class XIV) in >aniplr 1 . 



//. Plmmlni. This is said to be very similar to Thori and is quite as good 

 in quality. It is generally exported and has the same market value as Thori. 

 Irrigated land is used for the cultivation. Oidy one sample of this wheat was 

 received. The ears are beardJess and dense with fan-shaped apices. The 

 chaff is smooth, light red with a bluish bloom an.d the giain is white. The 

 straw is pink, turning black on ripening (var. alhoruhrum Kcke. Class LIX). 

 There were also present in fair quantity, as impurities, two beardless wheats 

 with red. felted chaff and white grain (var. Delfii Kcke. Class XLVIII and 

 Class XLIX). and in small quantity a similar wheat with red grain (var. pyro- 

 thrix Al. Class XL VI) : a beardJess wheat -with smooth, white chaff and white 

 grain (var. albidam Al. Class LXII) ; a similar wheat ^^'ith red grain 

 (var. lutescens Al. Class LXI) ; and a beardless wheat with white, densely felted 

 chaff and white grain (var. hacospermum Al. Class L\). 



III. Bujri. This variety is considered to be of inferior quality and is 

 cheaper than TJioii or Phundni. Six samples were received very different in 

 compo.sition. " Buji-i " which means " bearded "" is the name of a group 

 of wheats rather than of any particular variety. 



In three sampler, the main constituent was a fuJh- l.ie&rded wheat with 

 smooth, red glumes and white grain, in one sample it was a similar wheat 

 with white chaff. One sample was a mixture in equal parts of a bearded wheat 

 with, smooth, white chaff and white grain, and of a similar wheat with red .grain. 

 The sixth sample was a mixture of all these four wheats. 



1. B'.ijri from the riUoge of Khanpur. This sample was a mixture of 

 two bearded wheats with smooth, \\hite chaff, the one with wliitc grain 

 (var. gniecum Kcke. Class XLV), the other with red grain (var. c'/-//- 

 throspermu.m Kcke. Class XLII). There was only one impurity — a bearded 

 wheat with black awn.s. white, felted glumes and red grain (var. fidiginotsutn Al. 

 Class XX). 



2. Bujii from the village of Dheeran. Almost the wh(jle (;f this sample 

 consisted of a bearded wheat with large, lax ears, suujoth, red glumes, white 

 grain and strong straw (var. enjlhrolevcon Kcke. Class XXXM). There were 



