288. BULLETIN 772, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Tall branched grasses with broad flat blades, the moncecious in- 
florescences numerous on long, stout peduncles, these clustered in the 
axils of the leaves, each inflorescence consisting of an ovate or oval, 
pearly white or drab, beadlike, very hard, tardily deciduous involucre 
(much modified sheathing bract) containing the pistillate lower 
portion of the inflorescence, the points of the pistillate spikelets and 
the slender axis of the staminate portion of the inflorescence pro- 
truding through the orifice at the apex, the staminate upper portion 
of the inflorescence 2 to 4 cm. long, soon deciduous, consisting of 
several clusters of staminate spikelets. Species about four, one 
widely distributed in tropical countries, the others in the East Indies. 
Type species: Coir lachryma-jobi L. 
Coix L., Sp. Pl. 972, 1753; Gen. Pl., ed. 5, 419. 1754. Linnzeus describes 
two species, C. lachryma-jobi and C. dactyloides. The reference in the Genera 
Plantarum (above cited) is to Tournefort’s plate 302, which represents the first 
species. 
Coix lachryma-jobi L. (fig. 174), known as Job’s-tears and some- 
times as Christ’s-tears, is cultivated in all tropical countries for orna- 
ment and has escaped into waste places, especially around dwellings. 
It is also cultivated in greenhouses and sometimes in the open in 
warm temperate regions. The name Job’s-tears comes from the fan- 
cied resemblance of the fruit to tears. The fruits, or so-called seeds, 
are used for a variety of purposes, such as beads, and for rosaries. 
LIST OF NEW SPECIES AND NEW NAMES. 
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Aspris eapillaris (Host) Hitche. Epicampes subpatens Hitche. 
Aira capillaris Host-_--- 116 Spill MOVASE Ses ea 144 
Blepharidachne benthamiana Fluminea festucacea (Willd.) 
(Hack) Pitches 2s eaeen 78 Mitch. see) Se ee 38 
Munroa benthamiana Hack. Arundo festucacea Willd. 
Bracniaria ciliatissima Muhlenbergia andina (Nutt.) 
(Bucki)) ‘Chasesac ses 221 Hitches: ee 145 
Panicum ciliatissinum Calamagrostis andina 
Buckl, Nutt. 
Capriola dactylon maritima Muhlenbergia montana (Nutt.) 
GEEBeKe)) Et chee aaa 179 Hitehe221) OO Gea eee 146 
Cyno don mawritimus H. By kK, Ca Ly codon montanum 
Echinochloa crusgalli edulis Nutt. 
Hitche___~~-------_-------_- “33 | Osterdamia japonica (Steud.) 
Panicum frumentaceum Hitehe cs 20k. eee a 166 
roe 1820, not Salisb., Zoysia japonica Steud. 
< tay Pholiurus ineurvatus (L.) 
Echinochloa crusgalli zelayen- : 
sa. Fa bGh 238 Etech = 2 eee 106 
sis Hitchce___-----_-----_-- = Aegilops incurvata L. 
Oplismenus zelayensts , 
H. B.K. Folyposon lutosus (Poir.) ig 
e ° = AY A 6 (GU a ee ah 
Hplesuubes emersleyi (Vasey) 144 Agrostis lutosa Poir. 
Muhlenbergia emer sleyi Triodia flava (L.) Hitchc.____ 76 
Vasey. Poa flava L. 
