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Nom. Jap. Ao-tentsuld (T. Makino). 



Hab. Japan, sparingly bat widely distributed. 



This species stands very closely by Ecliinolytrum dipsaceum Desv. 

 (=Scirpus dipsaceus Rottb.= Fimbristylis dipsacea Benth. ex Clarke = 

 Isolepis dipsacea Roem. et Schult.), from which, however, it seems to me, 

 differs by having the glumes with a straight and erect tail. 



Coix Lacryma Jobi Linn. a. typica. 



Coix Lacryma-Jobi Linn. Sp. PL p. 972 ; Hook. fil. FL Brit. Ind. VII. 

 p. 100. 



Lithagrostis Lacryma-Jobi Gasrtn. Fruct. I. p. 7, tab. 1, fig. 10. 



Coix Lacryma Linn. Syst. ed. 10, p. 1261; Lamk. 111. tab. 750; Bot. 

 Mag. tab. 2474 ; Beauv. Agrost. p. 137, tab. 24, fig. 5 ; Roxb. FL Ind. 

 III. p. 568; Kunth, Enum. PL I. p. 20, et Suppl. p. 16, tab. 3-4: Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. III. p. 476, tab. 41 B ; Steud. Syn. Gram. p. 9. 



Spliaerium Lacryma 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL II. p. 793, 



Annual. Fruit short, broad, ovoid, osseous. 



Noin. Jap. To-mucji, Chosen-mugi, Kusudama. 



Hab. Prov. Yamashiro (after Ranzan Ono). 



Cultivated for the edible fruits. 



forma Susutama (S"eb.). 



Coix Lacryma a. Susutama Sieb. Syn. PI. Oecon. Jap. in Verh. 

 Batav. Gen. XII. (L830) p. 10. 



Coix Lacryma Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 37 ; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 161 ; 

 Francb. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 156. 



? Coix Lacryma Lour. Fl. Cochinch. ed. Willd. p. 673. 



Coix Lacryma-Jobi Hack. Enum. Gram. Jap. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 VII. (1899) p. 638. 



Perennial, casspitose. Fruit ovoid, osseous. 



Nom. Jam. Juzu-dama, Susu-dama, Zuzu-dama, Suzu-dama, Zuzugo- 

 dama, Dzuslii-dama, Sudame, Zuzugo, LLachikohu. 



Hab. Japan, spontaneous not cultivated. 



Common. Its fruit is not edible but is used as a plaything by 

 children, and sometimes as an ornament for horse. 



var. maxima Makino. 



? Coix Lacryma b. Joosusutama Sieb. Syn. PI. Oecon. Jap. in Verh. 

 Batav. Gen. XII. (1830) p. 10. 



