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with black awns, greyish white, densely felted glumes and red grain 

 (var. fuliginosum Al. Class XX), and a dwarf wheat with smooth, white 

 chaff, white grain and pink straw (var. Hmnholdti Kcke. Class X). 



6. Wdru wheat. This sample was also very mixed, eight different wheats 

 being found iii it. The main constituent was a beardless wheat with small 

 tips, light red, felted glumes, white grain and gocnl straw (var. Delfii Kcke. 

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

 red grain (var. pyrothria- Al. Class XLVI) ; a beardless wheat with short 

 tips, smooth, light red chaff and red grain (var. milturnm Al. Class L VI) ; a 

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

 Class XLII) ; a beardless wheat with smooth, red chaff and white grain 

 (var. alhoruhrnm Kcke. Class LVIII) ; a beardless wheat with dense ears 

 with fan-shaped apices, white, felted glumes, white grain and very strong 

 straw (var. leiicospermiim Kcke. Class LIII), and the same dwarf wheat as 

 in the sample of Thori (var. Humbohlfi Kcke. Class X). 



MAKRAN, KALAT. 



This is one of the maritime divisions of the Kalat State. The coast is 

 practically a desert owing to the nature of the soil, whi^ is impregnated 

 with salt, and the scanty lainfall. From the level clay plains of the coast 

 rise table hills and behind these lie ranges of high mountains, paiallel wdth 

 the coast and intersected by narrow valleys, in which the cultivation is 

 carried on. 



The climate varies greatly. The central inland portion is extremely 

 hot and dry while the higher valleys such as Panjgiir are fairly temperate. 

 There are three seasons, spring from March to May, summer from June to 

 October and winter from November to February. The seasons in Panigur 

 are about a month later than in Kech. The rainfall is very uncertain but 

 never exceeds a few inches. None may be received for two or three years. 

 The rain generally comes in the form of storms betw'een November and March 

 and in July and August. On the west, the winter rainfall is the greatest, on the 

 ea.st the sununer rainfall. As most of the rain falls in the hills sudden floods, 

 which do great harm t<» (-ultivation. are common on the plains. 



There are several rivers in Makidn of which the Dhast. the Rakhshdn, 

 the Tank and their affluents are the most important. From most of these 

 rivers irrigation is carried out by means of kavr-jos or open channels leading 

 trom pools. In almost all the rivers, the river bed expands at short intervals 



