250 CHINA. [Gramine*. 



confertissimis, semine subgloboso subtiliter ruguloso. Gartn. de Fruct. 1. p. 8. t. \.f. 1 1. 



Kunth, En. 1. p. 273. Trin. Ic. Gr. t. 70. Roxb. Fl. Ind. \.p. 342; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 343. 



— Isjetti-pullu. Rheed. Hart. Mai. 12. t. 78.— ft stricta ; spicis strictis — E. stricta. Roxb. 



I. c. p. 343; {ed. Wall.) 1. p. 344.— y, pumilas vix digitalis. N. ab E. in Herb. Royle, 



n. 369 (ex parte). 



Hab. Ad Macao et in insulis adjacentibus ; Millett; G. H. Vachell, n. " H." 



Simillima prsecedenti, e qua, prater characteres adnotatos et habitum proprium parum differt, Gluma 



superior quandoque dorso 5-nervis ; etiam valvula inferior 5-nervis occurrit. 



24. DACTYLOCTENIUM. P.deBeauv. 



I. D. mucronatum. Willd. En. 2. p. 1029. N. ab E. Agr. Bras. p. 436, (cum synony- 

 mia completa).— Eleusine ^Egyptiaca. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1.J9.344; (ed. Wall.) 1.^.345 — 



a, JEgyptiacum D. JEgyptiacum. Kunth, En. 1. p. 261 — (3, repens ; valde ciliatum, 



spicis 1 -3 erectis vel patentibus, rbachi inter spiculas patenti-ciliata — D. prostratum. 

 Willd. En. 2. p. 1029. Kunth, En. I. p. 261. Link, Hort. Ber. 1. p. 59 — Eleusine pro-s- 

 trata. Spr. Syst. Veg. 1. p. 350. 



Hab. Ad Macao, in insula Lappas, et in aliis -vicinis ; Millett; G. H. Vachell, n. 73. b. (ex parte). 



D. aristatum, Link, non minus ac reliqua? hujusce est varietas. Restat igitur solum D. radulans, 

 P. Beauv., seu Eleusine radulans, Brown, jure suo ut species propria vindicandum. 



[We have before us, from Mr. Millett, two forms of this plant, both belonging to «. ; one is smaller than 

 the other, with roots from the joints, and the leaves and sheaths shortly hairy and ciliated ; this may prove 

 to be It. aristatum, Link. The other is more robust, the ascending portion of the culm being about a foot 

 high, and the spikes almost an inch and a half long, and thick in proportion ; the leaves are very scabrous 

 on the margin, and more or less bearded at the mouth of the sheath, but are otherwise, as well as the sheath 

 itself, glabrous : the lower part of the culm forms a very remarkable branched prostrate densely leafy rhizoma 

 one to two feet in length. The spikelets are sometimes pubescent, sometimes glabrous and shining : but all 

 these variations, as well as var. (3, seem to depend much on the localities in which they are found, and not to 

 be permanent.] 



'25. CHLORIS. Linn. 



1. C. barbala; culmo ramoso compresso, foliis acutis basi et margine infero vaginisque 

 collo stricte pilosis, spicis digitatis (4-15), spiculis imbricatis, gluma superiore lanceolata 

 inte<n-a nervo mucronulata flosculum hermapbroditum dimidiato-obovatum superne vu- 

 loso-ciliatum sequante, flosculis neutris binis truncatis setigeris glabris, setis omnibus 

 sequalibus. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 1. p. 200. N. ab E. Agr. Bras. p. 421. (cum synon.) 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. p. 329; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 331. Jacq. Eel. Gr. I. p. 8. Kunth, En. 1. p. 

 264 Andropogon barbatus. Linn — Konda pulla. Rheed. Hort. Mai. 12. t. 51. /. 3. 



Hab. Prope Macao ; Millett. 



