GRAMINEA. 565 
5. Atheropogon stolonifer, Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum., Gram. p. 140. 
Soura Mexico, La Parada, Sierra de Oaxaca at 8500 feet (Liebmann). 
72. ELEUSINE. 
Kleusine, Gertn. Fruct. i. p.7, t.1; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iti. p. 1172. 
A genus mainly confined to the warm regions of the Old World, two of the species 
being also common in America. Many forms have been described as species, but 
Bentham (loc. cit.) says there are scarcely seven distinct ones. 
1. Eleusine egyptiaca, Pers. Syn. Pl. i. p. 82; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. p. 615. 
Dactyloctenium egyptiacum, Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. p. 1029; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. p. 261; 
Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 540. 
Dactyloctenium mucronatum, Willd. loc. cit. ; Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum., Gram. p. 144; Nees in Seem. 
Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,’ p. 225; Doll in Mart. Fl. Bras. i. 3, p. 87. t. 25. 
Dactyloctenium prostratum, Willd. loc. cit. 
Mexico and CentraL AMERICA, common, and in almost all warm countTRIES through- 
out the world, though often only a colonist. Hb. Kew. 
2. Eleusine indica, Gertn. Fruct. i. p. 8; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. p. 272; Griseb. 
Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 540; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. et Descr. t.71; Fourn. Mex. Pl. Fnum., 
Gram. p. 145. 
_Eleusine scabra, E. inequalis, E. rigidifolia et E. gouini, Fourn. loc. cit. pp. 145 et 146? 
Mexico and Central AMERICA, common, and in almost all warm countRIES through- 
out the world, but in many places only introduced. Hb. Kew. 
We have reduced all Fournier’s proposed new species of this genus, though we have 
seen only the two first. 
73. LEPTOCHLOA. 
Leptochloa, Beauv. Agrostogr. p. 71, t. 15. fig. 1; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 1172. 
About a dozen species, scattered over the warmer regions and extending into North 
America and Extratropical Australia. Fournier’s new species are unknown to us. 
1. Leptochloa liebmannii, Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum., Gram. p. 147. 
South Mexico, Antigua (Liebmann). 
2. Leptochloa mucronata, Kunth, Revis. Gram. i. p. 91, et Enum. Pl. i. p. 270; 
Chapm. FI. Southern U.S. p. 558; Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum., Gram. p. 147; 8. Wats. in 
Proc. Am. Acad. xviii. p. 181. 
Eleusine mucronata, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. p. 65. 
Leptochloa pellucidula, Steud. Gram. p. 209, ex Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 537. 
Leptochloa filiformis, Presl, Relig. Henk. i. p. 288?, vix Roem. et Schult. 
VirGInia to ILLINOIS and southward to Texas.—NortH Mexico, Monclova, Coahuila 
(Palmer, 1364); SourH Mexico, Acapulco (Thiebaut), Tuzpango (Bourgeau, 2375 in 
