Botanical Name - Coix lacryma-job

----- Coix Lacryma-jobi, Linn. ; F.B.I. V. 7. P. 100. Vern. Gulbay guddi ( Tel.), Sankru ( Hind.) Job's tears.

----- A nannual grass with branching culms reaching a height of about 5 ft. Leaf blades linear-lanceolate, 5-18 in. by 1/2 - 2 inches with cordate base, rarely narrowed. Inflorescence peduncled, sub-erect with false spikes ; peduncles 0.3 in; long; female bracts 0.3 - 0.5 in. long; male racemes 0.4 - 2 in long spikelets 2-3 note; wings of lower glumes very small,

----- Common near edges of tanks, small streams, found all over the State. Leaves are readily eaten by cattle.