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nerally opposite. Leaves short, with their margins ciliate.— Head 
or spike terminal, long-peduncled, globular, composed of.two or 
three, sessile, secund, short spikes, which are again composed of two 
rows of alternate, from six to twelve-flowered, sessile, ovate-oblong 
. spikelets.—Calyz, from six to twelve-flawered, equal, acute, striat- 
ed.—Corol, outer valve keeled, acute, three-nerved, very hairy near 
the base, inner. valve as in Poa, with its back ciliate.— Seed oval, 
compressed, smooth, and brown; dropping from the corol when ripe. 
Obs. Both these species are of 4 coarse nature: . 
The Linnean definition of the genus does not. accord well with 
the only two species I have met with in India. "That of Foa agrees 
better with their essential character; and had not Burman, i in his 
Flora indica, made them'both belong to this genus, I should certainly 
have considered them as species of Poa, though in their general 
habit they by no means agree with the elegant plants of that genus, 
When I had an opportunity | forgot to examine the seeds in a 
sufficiently exact manner. — I suspect they have the aril of the fol- 
lowing genus, because they have much of its general habit. 
ELEUSINE. Gart. Carp. i. p. 7.* 
Calyx two-valved, containing many flowers of two equal valvelets. 
Seed with a complete membranaceous aril. - 
1. E. Coracana. Gert. Carp. i. 8. t. 1. 
Culm; erect, from two to four feet high, compressed. Leaves 
bifaious. Spikes digitate, incurved.  Calyces from three to six- 
flowered. Seed round. 
. Cynosurus Coracanus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 415. 
Tsjetti-pullu. Rheed. Hort. Mal. xii. p. 149. t. 78. ` 
Panicum mod seu Naatsjoni. Rumph. amb. v. p.903.1. ee 
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It is called N utchanee by ecient on the Comia Coast. 
“I adopt Gertner’ s name on account of the aril, which envelops the seed, and 
the total want of the involucre of Cynosurus i in all the Indian species that I have 
yet met with, 
