296 ctxxiir. gramine^. (J. T>. Hooker.) [Eleusine. 



E. radnlans, Br. Prodr. 186. Dactyloctenium asgyptiacum, Willd, Mum- 

 Sort Berol. 1029 : Beauv. Aarost. 72. t. 15, f. 2 : Kunth Enum, Fl i. 261, 



^,... W. Ind. 540; Baher FL Manrit. 452. D. distachyum, Bojer Eorf. 

 Maurii. 370. D. Figarei, Notar. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 111. ix. (1848) 32o. 

 D. meridionale. Bam. Prodr, PL Ind. Occ. 6. D. mucronatnm, Willd.lc; 

 Trin. 8p. Gram. let. 69; Steud. l.c; Wight Cat. n. 1761. D. prostratum. 

 Willd. I.e.; S tend. I.e. T). radnlans, Beauv. Agrost. 72; Kunth H c.c. 

 262,204; Stettd.l.c. Cynosurns jegyptius, Linn. Sp. PL 72. C. Cavara 

 & Macara, i/fc. ITam. ex Wall. I. c. B. C. C. distachvus, BoUL ex Siei^- 

 Norn. JEd. II. i. 465. Chloris mucronata, Mich. Fl. Am. Bor. i. ^^' 

 Cencbnis segyptins, Beauv. Agrost. 157. Ehabdochloa mucronata, £eawP' 

 he. 84. ^gilops saccharinus, Walt. Fl. Carol, i. 24.9.— BAeede Hort. Mai. 

 xii. t. 69. 



Throti^liont the low country of India and Burma, to Malacca and Ceyiok.— 

 DiSTRiB, Warm regions of the Old World, introd. into the New. . 



Stem erect, 6-18 in. h'gh» or prostrate spreading and rooting, often prohferons j 

 branched at the thickened nodes. Leaves distichons, acute or acuminate, cilia . 

 sheaths compressed; ligule U. Sfdkes solitary or 2-5, ^-1 in. long, all ^^^^^J^ 

 stout, rHchis inucrouHte at the tip hy the thickened excurreufc midrih. ^^**^^^ 

 densely crowded, ^VtV 5°- lo"^* 3-4.fld., glabrous ; glumes almost pungent; I®^*^' 

 acute; 11 broadly ovate, obliquely cuspidately awned, as are the following, ci p 

 recurved ; palea very broad, 2-fid, keels hispid. Grain globose, very ro"gh. P«ri*"a 1* 

 •rane^cent.— Specimens in Herb. Rattier named *' Cynosfirusciliaris, (^\^*^^^^^:^^ 

 nob, an C. cegyptii, var. :— sandy shores of the Ocean," are somewhat ^"^®™®;tug 

 between tpgypiiaca and aristatay having the foliage of the former and habit or i 

 latter. This and Wight's n. 1761 b. '' Dactyloct. mucronatum, P. repens ^ -i^- 

 prostratum, Willd,,*' are the same. 



r 



6. E. aristata, Ehrenl.exBoiss.Fl. Orient.r.557; perennial, slender 

 prostrate, proliferously branched, leaves short glaucous, spikes very s 

 capitate, gl. II abruptly shortly awned. E. glaucophylla, f.""^ ij 

 Benth. in Jonrn. Idnn. Soc. xix. (1881) 107. E. scindica, Duthie j^<^- 

 Grass. N. Ind. 58, t. 36; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vv. (^^^^^ 

 377. Dactyloctenium glaucophyllura, Courh. in Ann. Se. Nat. S^- ' 

 xviii. (1862) l;33. D. scindicum, Boiss. Diagn. Str. II. iv. 131, FL Orten • 

 I, c. 



The _ _ ^ 



DiSTRiB. Affghan., Arabia, Nubia, 



BeiccBIstAIJ' 



Stem smooth, stiff, widely spreading, rooting at the distant ^^"^^f^^^ol^ io. 

 leafy nodes, and sendinsr up very slender branches 4-12 in. long ; i'^*^^^"?\^*l .based 

 Leaves 1-1 ^ in., acuminate or pungent, margins ciliate with long ^" ^ "j.^. 

 hairs; basal sheaths hairy ; ligule obsolete. Spikes 3 or more, i-i in- ^°^^' ^l^^uU 

 ingor decnrved, ciliate or bearded at the base, midrib of rachis excurrent. op ^^ 



mgor decnrved, ciliate or bearded at the base, midrib of rachis excurrent. ^r , 

 short. 3-4-fld., rachilla glabrous; gl. I and II coriaceou?, 1- nerved, marguis 

 branous I f«*^*ii k-,v-*ii.. ^v,\ -_: i_i.* tt % a <.^,«iatifnes di"/**^. _ 



when spread open ; awn scout, suuuMte, incurved or recurvea ; ixx i«- j^j-ulo^ 



longer than II, very broadly ovate, subacute, glabrous ; palea broad, keeU scaoe 



small, broadly oblong, apiculate; II very broad, sometimes a ^/^j^^ 

 1 open ; awn stout, subulite, incurved or recurved ; lH «"d '?^ jQ,jg, 



Grain ovoid, rugose.— Habit of E.flagellifera. 



91. BINfiBHA, Jacq. , 



^ea« 



An annual leafy grass. Leaves flat. SpiMels 2-3-fld., small, cro« ^^ 

 biseriate oa ooe side of slender ^preadiug or deHexed spikes taa 



