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SOME PLANTS OF THE ZOTt HILLS . 
EMBK10PHYTA 8IPHONOGAMA. 
ANGIOSPERMAE. 
MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. 
1— GRAMIMACEAE. 
1, Zea Linn. 
1. Zea Mays L. Sp. PI. 971. Not mentioned by Boissier or 
Muschler; F.B.I. VII, 102. 
* 
Local name.— Arab, “dhura” ( »;*>); Pers. " zurat sliirbalal ” 
( Jib jjkAoje ) : Eng. Maize, Indian Corn. Watt in the Dictionary 
of Economic Products gives Arabic names as “ durah kizan ”, and “durah 
shami. ” Sir Percy Cox observes that the term “dhura” is applied with 
explanatory suffixes both to Zea Mays and to Sorghum. 
Distrib. — Almost cosmopolitan in the state of cultivation. It may 
be of recent introduction to the Persian Gulf. 
2. Sorghum Pers. 
2 . Sorghum vulgar® Pers. Syn. I, 101. 
S. annvum Pers. FI. Or. V, 459. 
Andropogon Sorghum Brot. FI. Lus. I, 88 ; FI. Br. Ind. VII, 183. 
Also see Rendle’s Catalogue of Welwitsch's African Plants. 
Without locality or number. 
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Local name. — Arab, “idhra” ( ) • Pers. “zurat” ( ). 
According to Sir Percy Cox “dhura ”, is the. general Arabic name for 
Jowari and also for Maize (see above).* Muschler and Watt both give 
“dhura” as one of the names for it. 
'Distrib.—' Throughout the warmer parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, 
also cultivated in North America. 
It is a cultivated cereal, and, according to Boissier, is largely grown in Egypt, 
Persia and the entire Western Asiatic region. In Egypt Muschler found under culti- 
vation only eight varieties, but in India there are innumerable varieties and forms of 
this gjrain iu cultivation. 
* Arabic 8jO-an atom, particle, hence applied to grains. 
