20 S. KIKKAWA: 
of the cultivated forms of Indian rice is that progression in value is from 
the awned to the awnless and from the coloured to the colourless.! 
Now, summing up the points of distinction discussed above for the 
classification of the rice in reference to its cultivation, they may be 
arranged as follows:— 
(A) Aquatic rice. 
(a) Early rice. (b) Medium rice. (c) Late rice. 
(I) Ordinary rice. 
(a) Tall rice. (b) Medium tall rice. (c) Short rice. 
(1) Awned. (2) Awnless, 
(II) Special rice. 
(a) Giant rice. (b) Salt rice. 
(B) Upland rice. 
(a) Early rice. (b) Medium rice. (c) Late rice. 
{a) Tallrice. (b) Medium tall rice. (c) Short rice. 
(1) Awned. (2) Awnless, 
(7) The colour of the empty glume, glume, awn and tip of the glume. 
The colours of the empty glume seen in Burman rice are white, light 
brown, brown, reddish brown and brownish purple; those of the glume 
are light yellowish white, which is the most common, brownish black, 
brown, dark brown, purplish brown, light ocher, ocher, yellow, buff, light 
buff, brownish yellow, light brownish yellow, light purplish brown, yel- 
lowish brown, drab and canary; those of the awn white, light brown, 
brown, reddish brown and yellow; and those of the tip of the glume are 
light yellowish white, which is the most common, brownish black, brown, 
dark brown, purplish brown, light ocher, ocher, light yellow, yellow, light 
brown, light brownish yellow, brownish yellow, blackish brown, yellowish 
brown, reddish brown and dark drab. 
There exists no definite relation between each of the colours of the 
above mentioned parts of the unhulled grain, nor is there any definite 
1. Dictionary of the Economic Products of India Vo!. V. p. 505. 
