294 CL2XIII. QBAMiNEiK. (J. D. Hooker.) lEleusine. 



Norn. Ed. TI. i. 649. E. distaiiB, Mcench. Meth. 210. E. domingensis, Sieh. 

 ex Schult Uant. ii. 323. E. GouiDi, insequalis, rigidifolia, & scabra, Fuum. 

 ex Eemsl Biol Ccnir. Amer. iii. 565. E. gracilis, Salisb. Prodr. 19. 

 E. maTgluata, lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 319 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 212. E. tristachya, Lamk. I. c. ; E'ujith Bevis'. Gram. i. 92, Enum. i. 273; 

 Stevd. I. c. CyP0i=urii8 indicus, Linn. Sp. PI. 72. C. Ara. Herh. Earn, a 

 Wall. Cat. n. 3816 I. PC. pectinatus, Lamh Enrycl. ii. 188. PLeptochloa 

 pectinata, Kunth Eevis. Gram. i. 91, Evum. PL 272 ; Steud. I. c. 211'. 

 Panicum compressam, Forsk. Ft. jEg. Arab. 18. Paspalum dissectum. 

 Xniphof. Cent JBot. in Orig. 1. 11. Triticum geminatum, Spreng. Svst.i.i-^- 

 Agropyrumgerainatum, Schult. Mant. iii. 66[>.—Bheede Hort. Malxn.t.bV'. 



Tlirongliont the low country of India (ascending to 5000 ft. in the Himalaya) U 

 Penang and Ceylon.— DiSTEiB. Tropical Old World ; introd. into the New. _i 



Stem 1-2 ft., stout, fott. Leaves distichous, narrow, flaccid, acumiuate; 8h?atn|) 

 flattened, ciliate ; liu-ule obsolete. Spikes 5-7. 2-5 in. long, all in a terminal whw, 

 or with soraeliiiK'8 1 or 2 lower down. Spikelets very rariable in size, tT"* 1 '' 

 3-5.fld.; quite glahrous; gl. I small, l-nerved ; II 3-nerved ; HI and sua-ee<iing 

 ovate, subacute. Gram oblong ; pericarp loose, but persistent ; seed oblong rugP^.^ 



Cu 



as thic _ , _, 



straiirlit or incurved, grain globose.' Lamk. llluntr. t. 28; Schreh. Gram.W.^^^^j, 

 Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 70 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 211 ; Panz. in Muejich. -^«''**''V 

 iv. (18H) t. 8; Kees Fl. Afr. Austr. 251; Kunth Enum. PL i- ^'%,%'. 

 225; Eoxb. Fl Ind. i. 342; Wall Cat. n. 3817; Grah. Cat. S<""*- /i- T«i 

 Aitchis. Ca'. Panjab PL 168; Trim. Cat. Geyl PL 109; Dathi^ Grnss. ]S.»- ' 

 34, Fodd. Grass.' N. Ind 57, t. 69, Field ^ Gard. Crops, 15. t. 28; Miquelti- i" • 

 Bat. iii. 386 ; Li^hoa in Journ. Bomb. Nat Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 373. t- •^'''7/' 

 Sa/iMb Proilr. 19. K. sphfiero-perina, Stokes But. Mat. Med. i. '*9- _*\ „i,ii 

 irtaj*. I. c. 343 ; Kunth l. c. ; Steud. I c. E. Tocussa, Fresen. in M'is. S*"*/ , ;;' 

 (18<7) 141. lynosurus corAcmux^, Lmn. Syst. Ed. II. 87o.--Rhecde Hort.^"'" 



t. 78.— Cultivated in all parts of India. 



2. E. flaerelUfera, Nees in Linnsea, xvi. (1842) 220; F/^^"^; 



prostrate, prolilerously branche*!, leaves v* ry short glaucous, tpikes ojg ! 

 gl. II lanceolate mucronate or ari-itulate, TU hairy acute. ^^f^\ I?! 

 Gram. 21 1 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 34, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. ol, ^-J 

 Boiss. FL Orient v. 655. E. arabica, Hochst. ex Si^ud. Lc; -^^'fj^^; 377 

 Panjah PL 167; Lisboa in Journ. Bmnb. Nat. Hist Soc. '^"- (^f i^ijes 

 E.? stolonlfera, Br. in Salt Abyss. App. 63. P Ochthocloa dactyio^ » 

 Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xi, (1842) 27. 



Plains of the Panjah, Royle, Jacquemonty &c. SciND, Sfoclcs, xc.—^ 

 AflFghau. and westward to N. Africa. ^ , <ilsUnt 



StentJi stout or slender, smooth, stiff, widely spreading, rooting at tne ^^^^^ 

 thickened leaty nodes, and sending np slender branches; internodwS 4-8 in. ^^^^^ 

 i-li in., rigid, recurved, flat or tortnous ; ligule hairy. Spikes 3-6, 1-U ' ' ^^^, 

 very variable in breadth, ^^ in.; rachis pubescent. Spikelets "^'*^'^'f^ ' 'gcute, 

 pedicelle^l, ^-^ in. long, 4-6-fld., green or brownish; gl. I small, ^y^i/^ ovate- 

 membranous ; II twice as large, coriaceous with membranous niargms; 1^^^^ ^^j 



lanceolate, acuminate, chartaceoui*, 3-nerved, mid-nerve compound, ^ i^^^clo<i 

 membranous margins below ha ry ; palea elliptic-oblong, keels hairy.-;— ^ j^ j, 

 dactyloides, Edgew., is a doubiful plant of which I have seen no specimeu • ^.^^j 

 not iutluded in any of Duthie's works on the Grasses of N.W. India, r^f^ 

 be traced by its habitat. Loodiana, Jassowala, on tumuli with Capparvs ap ^ ; 



3. E. brevifolia, Br. in Wall. Cat. n. 3815; annual, stems s o 



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