A NOTE ON INDIAN VVHEAT-RpSTS. 
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point on to Naini, where the search ended, no wheat was found, and 
very little barley, none of the latter- being diseased. Launea 
asplenifolia was quite plentiful throughout in level fields or where 
the slopes \^ere gentle ; on the steep sides of nullahs it was replaced 
by Launea nudicaulis. No diseased example of either species was 
met with. The rusts are not here differentiated; both are termed 
gerhwi : both the Launeas are known as gobi, 
Jabalpur, visited on 25th February as representative of the 
Central Provinces, gave, like Gaya, no result. The wheat in this 
district was quite free from rust ; the black cotton soil in which it 
is grown was^e.xtremely free from weeds of any kind ; no Launea 
was found among the wheat. On the banks of nullahs and on the 
slopes of hunfmocks rising above the level of the black soil in the 
fields, also in gardens, both native and European, Launea nudicaulis 
was found, but never plentifully ; no Launea asplenifolia was met 
with anywhere. The search here extended from Maharajpur on the 
Allahabad road (25th), to Mirganj and the Nerbadda in the opposite 
direction (26th February), and was everywhere equally unsuccessful. 
The cultivators were however thoroughly conversant with “ rust 
the description given of its ravages and appearance concided very 
well with the appearance presented at Shibpur and at ^Mozufferpur. 
The name used for it was, however, not gerhwi ; the interest 
of this use of the opposite sex will be apparent in dealing with the 
names used in Rajputana. 
On 27th February it was noted that on the sides of nullahs near 
Dhularia Railway Station, and in the station compound at Dharain 
Kundi, Launea nudicaulis was present ; no Launea asplenifolia 
was seen. At I tarsi one wheat-field was visited ; no rust w’as found. 
At Chandni neither Launea nor wheat were found. 
On 28th February, at Khandwa, on rust w^as found on the wheat, 
and neither species of Launea was met with. The cultivators were 
quite conversant with rust’' which had, they said, been prevalent 
some seasons ago and which they know as gerhwa. Their descrip- 
tion, however, differed very markedly from that given at Jabalpur^ 
all who volunteered information insisting that at the last outbreak 
the rust was not confined to the leaves but was marked by an eruption 
of black specks on the glumes and pales. No barley was met with 
at Khandwa- 
At Neemuch, visited on 29th February as representative of Malwa^ 
the same black cotton soil that prevailed at Jabalpur and Khandwa was 
met with. Here also both the wheat and the barley were found 
perfectly free from mist. But Launea asplenifolia^ which was not 
