90 NOTES ON THE AGRICULTURE, BOTANY 



the winter kind as may be seen in the Figs. II. 10, 11, 15. 

 Two different forms are found here. 



A. — See Fig. II. 10, 11. The hulls are without beards 

 and are 7-8 mm. in length and 3-3.5 mm. in breadth. The 

 grains are 5.5 mm. in length and 3 mm. in breadth. 



B. — See Fig. II. 15. The hulls and seeds are rounder 

 and smaller. The unhulled seeds are of 6 mm. in length, 

 3.5 mm. in breadth. The grains are 4.5 mm. in length and 

 3 mm. in breadth. 



3. — Autumn white glutinous rice. — #t 6 Ttt 2fe See Fig. 

 II. 6. It is the biggest of all local rice; is planted only near 

 the river and canals and reaches sometimes 2 meters in 

 height. The spikes of it are big, long, heavy; the hulled seeds 

 are usually with long white beards. The hulls are big and of 

 a light yellow colour. 



The unhulled seeds are of 9 mm. in length and 3.5 mm. 

 in breadth. The grains are of 6 mm. in length and 3 mm. 

 in breadth. The breads are of a different length, small, or 

 of 5-10 cm. It ripens at the end of September and in the 

 beginning of October. 



4. — Winter (rice) like glutinous rice. — jt ^ 2fc See Fig. 

 II 16. This is the smallest kind of all glutinous rice. The 

 hulled seeds are have the same colour and size as the hulled 

 winter rice, but the grains of this kind are white and not 

 transparent. The unhulled grains are of 6-8 mm. in length, 

 2.5-3 mm. in breadth. The grains of 4.5-6 mm. in length 

 and 2-2.5 mm. in breadth. Winter like glutinous rice ripens 

 only at the beginning of October with the other rice. 



5. — Lichee like glutinous rice. — ^ ^ Tit ^t See Fig. II. 

 17. A kind of glutinous rice with sufficiently large seeds 

 and with pretty hulls of a light yellow or of brick-red colour. 

 The unhulled seeds are of 6-7 mm. in length, 2.5-3.5 mm. in 

 breadth. The grains of 5-6 mm. in length and 2.5-3 mm. in 

 breadth. If this kind is sowed with the summer rice it is 

 harvested in July; if with the winter rice, at the end of 

 September. 



6. — -Summer glutinous rice. — ■¥• Ttfc 2fe See Fig. II. 18. 

 This kind has hulled flat seeds of different shape, inside are 

 small white grains. The unhulled seeds are of 6-8 mm. in 

 length, 3-3.5 mm. in breadth. The grains are of 5 mm. in 

 length and 2.2-2.5 mm. in breadth. The summer glutinous 

 rice ripes in July and is one meter in height. 



XXVI. — On the Kaoliang and Barley, Cultivated 

 in Manchuria. 



Among various gramineous plants cultivated in Man- 

 churia the local kaoliang and barley are of considerable 



