wy S. KIKKAWA: 
some farmers in Japan believe that long-glumed rice is generally more 
resistible against the injury of winds than common rice. This may be a 
fact but at the same time they are generally inferior in the quality of 
grain, and have never taken an important position in rice-culture any- 
where, and will doubtless pass out of use, as agriculture advances. ‘The 
writer does not consider them as an important group and places them 
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along those assorted according to the colour of husk. 
(10) Double rice. 
Some varieties of rice are said to contain more than one ovary in a 
spikelet. Col. D. Praı gave to such rice the Latin name ‘‘plena.” Sir 
GEORGE Warr says, that a cultivated rice exists in Chittagong with two 
to seven ovaries, and he places the plena among the four varieties of O. 
sativa’, ‘The writer has had no opportunity to examine any specimen of 
such rice, nor has he read any detailed description of it. 
For further classification of rice, such morphological characters as 
the form of the panicle and the colour of the stigma should be considered. 
The Classification of Rice with regard to the 
Utility of the Grain. 
(1) Non-glutinous and glutinous rice. 
This is a distinction noticed from ancient times. There are no re- 
markable differences in the morphological characters between the groups, 
but glutinous rice have generally more tender stems and leaves than 
those of non-glutinous rice, so that their straw is more valuable for many 
purposes than that of the other. The principal differences between the 
two classes are seen in the character of their grain. The grain of the 
glutinous rice when fully ripe and well dried becomes quite opaque and 
1. Watt’s Commercial Products of India, p. 824. 
