30 THE WHEATS OF BALUCHISTAN 



{a) Kalkoii consists mainly of a wheat with very short awns 

 (var. erythroleucon Kcke.) ^^'ith almost translucent white grain. It is mixed to 

 the extent of about one-twentieth with a wheat belonging to the same variety 

 which is also white-grained but difiers from the real KalkoH in the amount of 

 bearding and shape of the glumes. 



(c) Safed Khosha consists mainly of wheats belonging to var. groecum 

 Kcke. with white grain. It is probable that two sub- varieties, one with 

 plump, soft, white grain and the other with amber, translucent grain occur. 

 There is also admixture to about one-twentieth of var. erythrospermvm Kcke. 

 with red grain and a very sm^ill amount of Shutvr Dandan wheat. 



((/) Suikh Daft consists nu'iuly of var. erylhrohucon Kcke. with large, 

 soft, white grain. It contained a fair amount of Kalkori and a very small 

 amount of two wheats with felted i-\\afi. one with white and one with red grain. 



2. Ahi. — Irrigated wheats. 



(a) Kar-i-SafiiJ . This, according to Major Sykes' report, should be a 

 wheat with a white grain. The sample received under this name consisted, 

 however, in the main (three-((uarters of the whole) of a red-giained wheat 

 belonging to var. erythrospermmn Kcke. A white-grained, smooth-chafied 

 wheat (var. grnecum Kcke.) formed about one-eighth and a white-grained, 

 felted wheat (var. meridionale Kcke.) about one-tenth of the sample. It also 

 C(.ntauied small amounts of var. Ho,slianmn Clem., var. erythroleucon Kcke., 

 var. jerrugineum Al. and of vai . hirciciim Kcke. This was the most mixed 

 sample received. 



(6) Siah Das consisted entirely of the macaroni wheat, var. mehiwj/ns Al. 

 The sample was quite pure and the black colour of the awns well developed, 

 although the grain was slightly shrivelled. This wheat is probably identical 

 with one of the wheats of Baluchistan. 



{d) SInilar Dandan. This is also a mact.roni wheat beh^iging to the 

 variety Valencice Kcke. This variety occurs nowhere in India but is reported 

 from Valencia in the Russian Pr<»vinc('. of C'harkow and Chile. The sample 

 received was badly matured, having obviously suiltered from drought. It 

 contained as impurities very small amounts of Siah Daft and of a wheat 

 belonging to var. graennn Kcke. 



The fact that two of the (d)i wheats aie macaroni wheats which require 

 a large amount of water explains the statement made by Major Sykes that 

 ahi seed is never used for daimn sowings. 



