1380 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



rhachilla hardly any glumes dinaricate I and II 1-veined I 

 oblong cymbiform, acute or obtuse II broadly oblong trigidly 

 cymbiform deeply 2 lobes, awned between the lobes, awn as 

 long as the glume, or shorter, rigid, flowering glumes gib- 

 bously ovoid, tipnotched with a pungent of recurved mucro, 

 keel smooth or minutely scabrid side veins 0, palea shorter 

 than the glume, ovate oblong obtuse or E-toothed keels scabrid 

 or hispidulous ; anthers minute ; styles short seed orbicular- 

 tubriled retaining the lyaline pari carp when ripe. (Trimen.) 



Spikes green or coloured. 



Uses : — A decoction of the seeds is renowned in Africa as 

 an alleviator of pains in the region of the kidney, and its 

 herbaceous parts are applied externally for the cure of ulcers. 

 (Duthie in Watt's Die.) 



1346. Hordeum vulgare, Linn., h.f.b.i., vii. 371. 



Sans :— Yava, yavaka, situshuka. 



Vern. : — Jau, indarjau, yurk, jawa, suj, (Hind); Jab, (B.) ; 

 Jowa khar, (Behari) ; Nas, (Bhot.) ; Soah, (Lassa) ; Tosa, (Nep.) ; 

 Thanzatt, nai, jawa, chak, jau (cut as fodder, kawfd, kasil, 

 patha, soa, jhotak, shiroka, tro, ne, chung, lugar, buza, chang), 

 (spirits — arrak), (ashes = jawa khar), (Pb.) ; Jao-tursh. jao (H. 

 bexastichum==jao-shirin), (Afg.) ; Java, satu, jav, (Mar.) ; Jau, 

 jav, ymwah, (GuzJ ; Barli-arisi, barli-arishi, (Tarn.) ; Pachcha 

 yava, yava, dhanya bhedam, yavaka, barli-biyam, (TeL) ; Jave- 

 godhi, (Kan.) ; Mu-yau, (Burm.) ; Shaair, (Arab), 



Habitat : — Cultivated in the Northern India. 



An erect annual grass. Stems many, quite smooth 2-3 ft, 

 high. Leaves few, the upper one close to the spike. Sheathes 

 smooth, striate ; ligule very short ; blade of leaf linear lanceo- 

 late, rounded at base tapering gradually to-apex, glaneous 

 green Spikes linear oblong, compressed-2-2^ in. long (without 

 the awns) ; Spikelets sesslets sessile, arranged in threes on two 

 sides of a flattened rachis, lateral ones occasionally barren and 

 rudimentary (Var. distichon) ; glumes 2 small setaceous, and 



