774 



(Bulau & Co., London). 



!Duvel 



U.S. Dept: Agric. Bull. No. 168, 1915, pp. 1-11; with plate 

 showing Types of Colour and Types of Damage in Corn Grain. 



Corn Culture in the South-Eastern States, Kyle, U.S. Dept. 



Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 729, 1916, pp. 1-19, illust. — ^Farm 

 Practice in the Cultivation of Corn, Cates, U.S. Dept. Agric. 



Bull. No. 320, 1916, pp. 1-66, illust. " The Relation of Cob 



to other Ear Characters in Maize," Grantham., in Journ. American 

 Soc. Agronomy, ix. May 1917, pp. 201-217.—^" Corn," in 

 The Corn Crops, Montgomery, pp 1-275, illust. (The Macmillan 



Co., New York, 1917).—" Report on Maize from Nigeria,"- 

 Johnson, in Trade Suppl. Nigeria Gazette, i. Nov. 29th, 1917, 



pp. 134-135. " Pop Corn," Agric. News, Barbados, xvii. 



Dec. 28th, 1918, p. 413. 



Coix, iiinn. 



- V 



Coix Lacr3niia-Jobi, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IX. p. 27. 



Ilk — Beauvois, Agrost. t. 24, f. 5 (0. Lacryma); Church, 

 Food Grains, India, p. 61 ; Greshoff, Nutt. Ind. PI. t. 33 ; Lisboa, 

 Bombay Grasses, p, 41 ; Cook & Collins, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 

 viii. 1903, t. 29; Teysmannia, xxix. 1918, p. 454; Hitchcock, 

 Grasses, U.S. Dept. Agric. BuU. No. 772, 1920, p. 287, f. 174. 



Vernac. names. — Boukon, Bonkori, Ewuruwura, Kali bugi 

 (Sierra Leone, Thomas). — Job's Tears; a "Pearl Barley" 

 (Manchuria, Hosie), 



West Africa — Sierra Leone, French Guinea, Liberia [there 

 are no specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Nigeria; but 

 the grass is so widely distributed in Africa that it is given a 

 place here] and also known from Angola, British East Africa, 

 Zanzibar, etc. Cultivated in India, Burma, China, 



Plant used as fodder for cattle in India (Duthie, Grasses, 

 N.W. India, p, 19), A coarse cereal which constitutes an 

 important food of the hill tribes of Assam and the Eastern 



millets 



Northern and Southern India; in Burma 



having been parched like Indian corn. The whole grains 

 wild kinds are exceedineily hard and are used as beads : 



more 



(Church 



The seeds, under the name of Pearl Barley, are exported 

 from Manchuria in the north to the West River in the south, 

 China ; they are said to possess diuretic and cathartic properties 

 and are used more in medicine than as food— though they are 

 sometimes boiled and made into gruel and also added in small 

 quantities to flour cakes to attract buyers (Hosie, Rep. Ssechuan, 

 China No. 5, 1,904, p. 10). The variety " Ma-yuen " is the 

 edible form cultivated in the Central Provinces, Sikkim, Khasia 

 Hills, Burma, Shan States, Tonkin, China, and Malaya; the 

 shell is soft and easily milled (Watt, Comm. Prod. India, p. 393)1 



