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Empty glume, 10 mm. long, keeled to the base ; apical awn acute, 10-20 mm. 

 long, with a narrow, dark brownish-purple line along the inner margin (3,6, 

 Fig. 165). 



Grain, large, more or less mealy, plump ; 7-5-7-8 mm. long, 3-8 mm. broad, 

 3-45 mm. thick. 



Similar forms are Sari Bogda (yellow wheat), Kizil Goon (golden colour), 

 and Ablakh (spotted), from the same district ; others also from Ispahan, 

 Persia, and one from Syr Daria, Turkestan. 



Ear bearded ; glumes white, pubescent ; awns black ; grain white. 



T. vulgare, var. pseudo-meridionale, Flaksb. Bull. App. Bot. Petrograd, 

 viii. 163 (1915). 



A very rare variety, hitherto found only in Asia. 



Flaksberger states that this variety frequently occurs among other wheats 

 in Persia and Turkestan. 



Howard's var. meridionale, United Provinces Class 6, appears to belong to 

 this also (Wheat in India, p. 193). 



Ear bearded ; glumes white, pubescent ; awns white ; grain red. 



T. vulgare, var. Hostianum, Korn. Handb. d. Getr. i. 47 (1885). 



A rare variety known to Kornicke only from Botanic Gardens. It occurs 

 among commercial White Karachi wheat from India, and I have received ten or 

 twelve forms of it from the United Provinces, India, Tabriz, and Seistan in 

 Persia, the province of Semiretchensk, Turkestan, and a single form from 

 Professor Eriksson, Stockholm. 



1. An early form found in commercial white Karachi wheat and received 

 also from Cawnpore, India. At Reading it comes into ear about the end of 

 May or first week of June. 



Young shoots, erect or semi-erect. 



Straw, short, slender, erect, 76 cm. (30 inches) high ; leaves blue-green. 



Ear, dense, 7-5-8 cm. long, quadrate, 10-11 mm. across the face and side, 

 with somewhat slender awns 6-7-5 cm - l n g 5 spikelets 16-19 5 0=24-28 (Ear 

 type i, Fig. 176). 



Empty glume, 9 mm. long, keeled to the base, with apical tooth or awn 4-10 

 mm. long (15, 16, Fig. 166). 



Grain, flinty, dark red, small, plump ; apex blunt, 6-2-6-8 mm. long, 3-6-4 

 mm. broad, 3-3-25 mm. thick. 



2. Ablakh (Spotted). An early wheat received from Tabriz, Persia. 

 Young shoots, erect or semi-erect. 



Straw, stout, of medium height 100-110 cm. (40-44 inches) high ; leaves 

 blue-green. 



Ear, lax, 10-11 cm. long, with stout awns, 7-8 cm. long ; spikelets 15-16, 

 plump, inflated, 3- to 4-grained ; D = 16-19 (Ear type 2, Fig. 187, with awns). 



Empty glume, 10 mm. long, keeled to the base ; apical tooth 2-4 mm. long, 

 with a narrow, dark brownish-purple line along the inner margin. 



