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



common dwarf wheat of the Punjab, and was found in the Rodi 

 of Shahpur, Rangrih or Ghiali of Kangra, Makini of Multan, 

 Daudi of Muzaffargarh, Daudan of Multan, Makkawali of Dera 

 Ghazi Khan, and in Daudi of Multan. Mr. A. C. Dobbs, of Lyall- 

 pur', found that this wheat was grown at Rawalpindi and that it 

 was considered in that district as the best for bread making." 



40945. " Type No. 8. Var. barbarossa Al. Ears bearded ; awns 

 red ; chaff felted with short, rather sparse hairs, yellowish red ; 

 grain dark red, consistency variable, hard, soft, and mottled 

 grains found in about equal proportions ; ear length 78 mm. ; 

 D.= 24 ; straw good ; ears erect and rather slender. This type 

 was found in the Lai Kasar-wali of Lyallpur in very small 

 quantity." 



40946. Type No. 8 A. 40947. Type No. 8 B. 



40948. " Type No. 9. Var. fuliginosum Al. Ears bearded ; awns 

 stiff, stout, rather short, black but lose their colour v^ry easily ; 

 glumes sharply keeled to the base; chaff densely felted with long 

 hairs, the felting resembling very closely that found on the maca- 

 ronis, chaff greyish white or yellowish white, pink at the edges, 

 generally with black spots of Cladosporium ; grain very dark red, 

 on the whole hard with a few mottled grains, the shape resembling 

 that of a common wheat; ear quadratic in section, somewhat club 

 shaped at the top, somewhat compact ; ear length variable, about 70 

 mm. on the average; D.= 25; straw stiff, stout, hollow throughout; 

 ears very erect. This type was found in the Lai of Batala, Ratti 

 of Montgomery and in the Lai Kale Kasar-wali of Lyallpur ; it 

 was also found in small quantity in the Lai Desi of Jhelum, Lai 

 of Delhi, Pamman of Ferozepore, Dagar of Multan, Kunjhari of 

 Muzaffargarh. This wheat is one of the most interesting types 

 found in the Punjab, for although it must be classed as a common 

 wheat, it appears to possess many of the characters of the maca- 

 roni wheats. The felting resembles very closely that of the 

 macaroni wheats and is quite different to that found on the other 

 felted common wheats or on the felted dwarf wheat. The shape 

 of the glumes with the keeling continued sharply to the base 

 resembles that of macaroni wheats. The hollow straw and the 

 shape of the grain are, however, those of a common wheat. The 

 shape of the ear with its compact sometimes club-shaped top, the 

 stoutness of the straw, and the stiff awns remind one of the dwarf 

 wheats, and it seems quite possible that this wheat, which is unique 

 in India, may have arisen from a natural cross between a dwarf 

 and macaroni wheat. This supposition is supported by the fact 

 that we have found a dwarf wheat to be the female parent in some 

 of the natural crosses found by us and described in the last part of 

 this paper. At flowering time this wheat (type 9) appears to shed 

 a vast amount of pollen and probably gives rise in this way to 

 further natural crosses. It is interesting to note that this wheat 

 is marked by Humphries as being the best of the 25 Punjab types 

 submitted to him." 



