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4. Toda. A red wheat with a white spike from Shorawak. Both this 

 and the white Toda (sample 5) mature with very little water, and if there are 

 no early rains and cultivation is done late in the season, then about five-sixths 

 of the w^hole klmsliMha area is put under these two wheats. This is a bearded 

 wheat with smooth, white chaff and red grain (var. erythros])efmum Kcke. 

 Class XLII). There were also present as impurities a similar wheat with 

 white grain, the white Toda (var. graecum Kcke. Class XLV) and a bearded 

 wheat with smooth, red chaff and white grain (var. eiythyoleiicon Kcke. 

 Class XXXVIII). 



5. Toda. A white wheat with a white spike from Shorawak. This 

 is similar to the red Toda but has a white grain (var. graecmn Kcke. 

 Class XLV). There were also present as impurities in small quantity : some 

 red Toda ; a bearded wheat with black awns, white, felted chaff and red grain 

 (var. fuliginosum Al. Class XIX) ; a bearded wheat with white, densely felted 

 chaff and white grain (var. meridionale Kcke. Class XXVI) and a similar 

 wheat with red grain (var. Hostianum Clem. Class XXI). 



6. Shuir dandan (shaped like a camel's tooth). This is very rarely 

 grown and always only in very small quantity on u'rigated land. It is not 

 ground into flour but is parched and chewed. No sample was sent so that no 

 identification was possible. 



Both Pambarin.s and Surbaj are said to be more liable to rust than the two 

 Toda wheats, but whether this is really true or whether it is due to the fact 

 that rust is generally less on the kkashkdba lands on which the Toda wheats 

 are grown it is difficult to say. 



Two other unnamed samples were received from Quetta . They resembled 

 in every particular spin wheat from Pishin. 



7. Unnamed sample, probably spin wheat. Three-quarters of the bundle 

 consisted of a wheat- with lax ears, short awns, rounded glumes and white 

 grain (var. meridionale Kcke. Class XXVIII). Nearly a quarter of the sample 

 consisted of the fully bearded, smooth, red chaffed wheat with red giain 

 (var. erythrospermum Kcke. Class XLIV). There were also present in verv 

 small quantity a wheat similar to the last but with white chaff and white 

 grain (var. graecum Kcke. Class XLV) ; a bearded wheat with felted, white 

 chaff and red grain (var. Hostianum Clem. Class XXIII), and a fully bearded 

 wheat with smooth, red chaff and white grain (var. meridionale Kcke. 

 Class XXXVII). 



8. An unnamed sample probably sptin- Three-quarters of the sample 

 resembled spin wheat from Pishin (var. meridionale Kcke. Class XXVIII) 



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