288 BULLETIN 772, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Tall branched grasses with broad flat blades, the monoecious in- 
florescences numerous on long, stout peduncles, these clustered in the 
axils of the leaves, each inflorescence consisting of an ovate or oval, 
pearly white or drab, beadlike, very hard, tardily deciduous involucre 
(much modified sheathing bract) containing the pistillate lower 
portion of the inflorescence, the points of the pistillate spikelets and 
the slender axis of the staminate portion of the inflorescence pro- 
truding through the orifice at the apex, the staminate upper portion 
of the inflorescence 2 to 4 cm. long, soon deciduous, consisting of 
several clusters of staminate spikelets. Species about four, one 
widely distributed in tropical countries, the others in the East Indies. 
Type species : Coix lachryma-jobi L. 
Coix L., Sp. PI. 972, 1753 ; Gen. PL, ed. 5, 419. 1754. Linnseus describes 
two species, C. lachryma-jobi and C. dactyloides. The reference in the Genera 
Plantarurn (above cited) is to Tournefort's plate 302, which represents the first 
species. 
Coix lachryma-jobi L. (fig. 174), known as Job's-tears and some- 
times as Christ's-tears, is cultivated in all tropical countries for orna- 
ment and has escaped into waste places, especially around dwellings. 
It is also cultivated in greenhouses and sometimes in the open in 
warm temperate regions. The name Job's-tears comes from the fan- 
cied resemblance of the fruit to tears. The fruits, or so-called seeds, 
are used for a variety of purposes, such as beads, and for rosaries. 
LIST OF NEW SPECIES AND NEW NAMES. 
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Aspris capillaris (Host) Hitchc. 
Air a capillaris Host 116 
Blepliaridaclme benthainiana 
(Hack.) Hitchc 78 
Munroa benthainiana Hack. 
Bracniaria ciliatissima 
(Buckl.) Chase 221 
Pan i c u m ciUatissim um 
Buckl. 
Capriola dactylon niaritinia 
(H. B. K.) Hitchc 179 
Cynodon maHtimus H. B k ;K. 
Echinochloa crusgalli ednlis 
Hitchc 238 
Panicum frumentaceum 
Roxb., 1820, not Salisb., 
1796. 
Echinochloa crusgalli zelayen- 
sis Hitchc 238 
Oplisinenus s elayensis 
H. B. K. 
Epicampes emersleyi (Vasey) 
Hitchc 144 
Mulilenbergia emersleyi 
Vasey. 
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Epicampes subpatens Hitchc. 
sp. nov 144 
Fluminea festucacea (Willd.) 
Hitchc 38 
Arundo festucacea Willd. 
Mulilenbergia andina (Xutt.) 
Hitchc 145 
C al am a grost is andina 
Nutt. 
Muhlenbergia inontana (Nutt.) 
Hitchc 146 
C alyco don montanum 
Xutt. 
Osterdamia japonica (Steud.) 
Hitchc 166 
Zoysia japonica Steud. 
Pholiurus incur vatus (L.) 
Hitchc 106 
Aegilops incurvata L. 
Polypogon lutosns (Poir.) 
Hitchc 13S 
Agrostis lutosa Poir. 
Triodia flava (L.) Hitchc 76 
Poa flava L. 
