Coix

Tall grasses such as Phragmites karka, Saccharum arundinaceum, and Coix gigantea generally dominate fertile alluvial clay sediments.

Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests 2007

_Medicago_, the fruit of the water-caltrops, _Melia_ and _Zizyphus_, the cups of the acorn, the involucres of the beech, the seeds of _Coix lacryma_, etc.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various

The vervain, or verbena, was known as the "Tears of Isis," as well as the "Tears of Juno," -- a name given also to an East Indian grass (_Coix lacryma_).

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

I observed likewise an arborescent Sambucus, a Bonnaya, a huge Begonia: Coix was seen cultivated.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

In the genera Polytoca and Coix the spikelets are unisexual and the male and female spikelets are found in the same inflorescence, the female being below and the male being continuous with it.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The chief cultivation appears to be Coix, Glycine, and some rice, but the produce seemed very small.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Coix and Polytoca the plant bears both male and female spikelets in the same inflorescence, but in Zea on the same plant they occur as distinct inflorescences.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The cultivation is chiefly of rice, Eleusine, Coix, and the edible seeded Labiata.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Very often the spikelets are unisexual and the male and female spikelets may be on the same plant as in _Coix

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Lachryma-Jobi_ as well as the maguey, are highly esteemed for their curative properties; and in his songs the shaman describes hikuli as standing on top of a gigantic seed of the _Coix Lachryma-Jobi_, as big as a mountain.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886