Coix lacryma-jobi
ξCoix lachryma-jobi L. ξ, Job's tears Robust annual, up to 2 m. Culm branched, internodes glabrous. Leaf-blade wide, lanceolate, cordate at base. Inflorescence enclosed by a hard globular bead-like utricle and consisting of 1 sessile ⚥ spikelet and 2 pedicelled Ø spikelets, with a terminal raceme of ♂ spikelets protruding, together with stigmas of the fertile floret, through the opening at top of utricle; "beads" varying in colour from white to blue-grey to reddish to black. This Indian sp. has been collected in the wild at Tauranga Harbour, on bank descending to foreshore C. Bonley 18.2.1989 (CHR 401399) and also in Warkworth, in street-pavement, P. J. de Lange (in litt. 10 Jan. 1996).
