﻿18 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40938 to 40969— Con. (Quoted notes by A and G. L. C. Howard.) 

 40941 to 40969. Triticum aestivxjm L. 



(Triticum vulgare Vill.) 



"T. compactum Host. Dwarf wheats. Ears exceedingly dense 

 and short, rarely over 5 cms. long, outer glumes keeled in the upper 

 half and rounded in the lower half, straw very short and stiff, grains 

 rounded. 



" There are four varieties of dwarf wheats grown in the Punjab. 

 These wheats are drought resisting and are generally grown on 

 inundation moisture with little rain. They are also said to be good 

 yielders and type 7 has a good reputation for bread making. Owing 

 to the smallness of their grain they can, however, be used only for 

 indigenous consumption and they are therefore being gradually re- 

 placed by common wheats. They agree with the common wheats in 

 time of ripening and showed themselves exceedingly susceptible to 

 early rust, Puccinia triticina Eriks., when grown at Pusa ; in fact, 

 they were almost destroyed by it. They are, however, fairly resist- 

 ant to yellow rust. The ears are short and erect, the straw stiff, 

 short (generally about 3 feet 6 inches or 4 feet), hollow throughout, 

 as in common w T heats, but much stouter. 



" Humphries remarks that ' types 4 and 7 are extraordinarily small 

 in the berry, so small that millers would hesitate to buy them if they 

 contained any small seeds, because the machinery used for extracting 

 the small seeds w T ould take out simultaneously a very large propor- 

 tion of the wheat berries themselves.' " 



40941. T. compactum. " Type No. 4. Var. erinaceum Kcke. Ears 

 bearded, with short bristly spreading awns very irregular in 

 length, awns red ; chaff smooth and dark red ; grain very small, 

 round, rather a light dirty red in colour, very difficult to distinguish 

 from a dark amber, hard on the whole, with a few soft grains ; ear 

 length 50 mm. ; D.= 38 ; straw shows no pink colour. To this type 

 belongs the Makkhi of Chiniot." 



40942. T. compactum. " Type No. 5. Var. linaza Kcke. Ears 

 beardless ; chaff felted with short hairs, w T hite with a pinkish tinge 

 due to the pink colour of the edges and the veins of the glumes ; 

 grain -round, small, but larger than in type 4, amber coloured, hard 

 on the w T hole, with a few soft and mottled grains ; ear length 

 49 mm. ; D.= 38 ; straw pinkish, turning black or greyish pink on 

 ripening. This type was only met with in small quantity in the 

 Makkawali of Dera Ghazi Khan." 



40943. T. compactum. " Type No. 6. Var. wernerianum Kcke. 

 Ears beardless, but with occasional very slight bearding; chaff 

 smooth, white with a pinkish tinge; grain round, about the same 

 size as in type 5, a clean light red, all soft ; ear length 44 mm. ; 

 D.= 39 ; straw has no pink colour. This type was only found in 

 small quantity in the Makini of Multan." 



40944. T. compactum. " Type No. 7. Var. humboldti Kcke. Ears 

 beardless ; chaff smooth, white with a pinkish tinge ; grain round, 

 about the same size as in type 5, but possibly a little smaller, 

 amber coloured, consistency very variable, hard, soft, and mottled 

 grains found in about equal proportions ; ear length 45 mm. ; 

 D.= 41 ; straw pinkish, turning black on ripening. This is the 



