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INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
rhachilla hardly any glumes dinaricate I and II 1-veined I 
oblong cymbiform, acute or obtuse II broadly oblong trigidly 
cymbiform deeply 2 lobes, awned between the lobes, awn as 
long as the glume, or shorter, rigid, flowering glumes gib- 
bously ovoid, tipnotched with a pungent of recurved mucro, 
keel smooth or minutely scabrid side veins 0, palea shorter 
than the glume, ovate oblong obtuse or E-toothed keels scabrid 
or hispidulous ; anthers minute ; styles short seed orbicular- 
tubriled retaining the lyaline pari carp when ripe. (Trimen.) 
Spikes green or coloured. 
Uses : — A decoction of the seeds is renowned in Africa as 
an alleviator of pains in the region of the kidney, and its 
herbaceous parts are applied externally for the cure of ulcers. 
(Duthie in Watt’s Die.) 
1346. Hordeum vulgare, Linn., H.F.B.I., vii. 371. 
Sans : — Yava, yavaka, situshuka. 
Vern.: — Jau, indarjau, yurk, jawa, suj, (Hind); Jab, (B.) ; 
Jowa khar, (Behari) ; Nas, (Bhot.) ; Soah, (Lassa) ; Tosa, (Nep.) ; 
Thanzatt, n&i, jawa, chak, jau (cut as fodder, kawfd, kasfl, 
patha, soa, jhotak, shiroka, tro, ne, chung, lugar, buza, chang), 
(spirits = arrak), (ashes=jawa khar), (Pb.) ; Jao-tursh. jao (H. 
bexastichum = jao-shirin), (Afg.) ; Java, satu, jav, (Mar.) ; Jau, 
jav, ymwah, (Guz.' ; Barli-arisl, barli-arishi, (Tam.) ; Pachcha 
yava, yava, dhanya bhedam, yavaka, barli'-biyam, (Tel.) ; Jave- 
godhi, (Kan.) ; Mu-yau, (Burm.) ; Shaair, (Arab). 
Habitat: — Cultivated in the Northern India. 
An erect annual grass. Stems many, quite smooth 2-3 ft, 
high. Leaves few, the upper one close to the spike. Sheathes 
smooth, striate ; ligule very short ; blade of leaf linear lanceo- 
late, rounded at base tapering gradually to-apex, glaneous 
green Spikes linear oblong, compressed-2-2£ in. long (without 
the awns) ; Spikelets sesslets sessile, arranged in threes on two 
sides of a flattened rachis, lateral ones occasionally barren and 
rudimentary (Var. distichon) ; glumes 2 small setaceous, and 
