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by a few species, “ quarum 203 facile formas hibridas gignunt cum 7iticis 
cultis eb a nonnullis pro typis primordiabilis Triticoram habentur.” 
Some people in Poona confound with wheat grass a species of Andropogon 
common in the Deccan named Andropogon triticeus, R. Br. (Heteropogon 
insignis, Thw.). In external form of inflorescence they slightly resemble each 
other. 
OrRoPETIUM, T77in. 
O. thomeium, Trin., Tund. 98; Kunth Suppl. T. 38, fig. V; Dalz. and 
Gibs., Bomb., Flor. 800; Rattbeilia Thomai, Willd. Sp. I. 466 ; Roxb. Cor. 
Pl, 133, 
Culms many together, erect, one inch high. ligula small, membranous. 
Leaves numerous, bifarious, subulate. Spike one inch long, terminal, solitary, 
cylindrical, subulate. Spikelets one-flowered, hermaphrodite, sessile, imbricate 
and immersed alternately like those of Rottbellia and Ophiurus in the excava- 
tions of the rachis. Two outer glumes empty, the first or the lowest linear, 
membranous ; the second boat-shaped, acute ; the third or the flowering glume 
membranous, hyaline, shorter than the empty glumes. 
This curious diminutive grass is confined to India, and said to grow on old 
walls, My specimens are from Sind, where it is stated to be not uncommon. 
It grows also in open ground in the plains of the Punjab ; also in Rajputana, in 
Agra and Etawa. 
Nothing is known about its uses. It is too small to be of any value as fodder. 
Horprum, Linn. Gen. 
AZ, vulgare, Linn, Beau. Agr. T. 21, Fig. I. 
AT, hexastichon, Roxb, Fl. Ind. I., 358. 
Ver.—Satiu, Jaw, Yaw, Jove, Godthi (Mar. and Hindi, Bombay), Jab, 
Bengal (Watt.), Juba (Roxb.), Chak, Jawa, Shotak, Soa, Yangma Wo, Barley. 
It is cultivated in various parts of the Presidency in Guzerat, Ahmedabad, 
Kaira, and in the Deccan ; in the latter country chiefly as an offering to 
gods, and in the north of Guzerat is used as food. It makes much better broth 
than that made with pearl barley. The authors of the “Bombay Flora” state 
that the brewing of beer from malted barley has keen tried in Meahableshwar, 
Poona, and Karachi, but uniformly without success, the mean temperature being 
too high during fermentation. Mr. Meakin prepares beer in Dapory, but it is 
not ascertained whether the barley used was malted in this country. 
There are two varieties cultivated in India, one the two-rowed (Z. distichon), 
and the other the six-rowed (ZH. hexastichon). The latter is much cultivated in 
Northern India and in most of the temperate parts of Hindustan during the 
cold season, either alone or mixed with wheat, gram, linseed, mustard, &c. 
