wild plants and eaten. In Sir dosi Hooker: 8 Hinológo Journals, | 
vol. i., pp. 289 ard 313, itis stated that “a good deal of Coix is culti- 
5^vatod i in the Khasia Hills ; the shell of the cultivated sort is soft and : 
the kernel is sweet, whereas the wild Coix is so hard that it cannot 
* be broken by the teeth ; each. plant branches two or three times from - 
* th and na seven to nine plants grow in each square yard of i 
soil; the praia is small, not above 30 or 40 fold.” 
The specimens oe ae by Sir Joseph Hooker when in Khas 
ich are now in the w Herbarium, show that the eaim Coix ot 
of Coix with large es lent seeds, known as Kalepoukpouk, which are 
treated like Indian corn, are often for a in the bazaars, and are 
cultivated very extensively by the 
n order to si at Sha s information contained in the Foop CA : 
ished by Professor Chur 
Coix gigantea, Roxb. 
2: the ants dobili ed to analysis it was found hä d 
3 m r removal of the involucre weighed on the average no less t 
= s. From four parts by weight of the sample three parts of 
abr grain were obtained,—three times the quantity ispum yt — 
Lachryma. ; 
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