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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 gibbously 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 Dic.)

Sans :— Yava, yavaka, situshûka.

Vern. : — Jau, indarjau, yurk, jawa, sûj, (Hind); Jab, (B.) ; Jowa khar, (Behari) ; Nas, (Bhot.) ; Soah, (Lassa) ; Tosa, (Nep.) ; Thanzatt, nâi, jawa, chak, jau (cut as fodder, kawíd, kasíl, pathâ, soâ, jhotak, shiroka, tro, ne, chung, lûgar, bûza, chang), (spirits — arrak), (ashes = jâwa khar), (Pb.) ; Jao-tursh. jao (H. hexastichum==jao-shirin), (Afg.) ; Java, sâtu, jav, (Mar.) ; Jau, jav, ymwah, (Guz) ; Barlí-arisí, barli-arishi, (Tam.) ; Pachcha yava, yava, dhânya bhedam, yavaka, barlí-biyam, (Tel.) ; Jave-godhi, (Kan.) ; Mu-yau, (Burm.) ; Shaaír, (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 lanceolate, rounded at base tapering gradually to-apex, glaneous green Spikes linear oblong, compressed-2-2½ 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