Job's tears (Coix Lacryma-Jobi) produce hard seeds, white to bluish-gray and about the size of a pea, on three-foot stalks.

A decoction of the growing tips is mixed with Job's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) to make a refreshing drink in Mauritius.

Medicines made with coix seed, glycyrrhiza root and turmeric, as well as ginger and red peppers, are often given as gifts and are sought by Japanese travelers to China.

The larvae mostly feed on Gramineae species, including Coix, Echinochloa, Oryza, Panicum, Saccharum, Setaria, Triticum, Zea and Zizania.

Job's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi), Coixseed, Tear Grass, adlay, or adlai, is a tall grain-bearing tropical plant of the family Poaceae (grass family) native to Southeast Asia but elsewhere cultivated in gardens as an annual.

Genera belonging to this tribe include: Andropogon, Bothriochloa, Chrysopogon, Coix, Dicanthium, Saccharum, Miscanthus, Schizachyrium, Sorghum, Zea, Sorghastrum, Tripsacum, Heteropogon, Trachypogon, Imperata and Themeda.

The population of a number of economic plants such as Saccharum species, Setaria pumila, Alpinia nigra, Hedychium spicatum and the major food plants like the Zizania, Latifolia, Carex species, Coix species, Narenga has decreased resulting in starvation conditions for the endangered Sangai deer.