344 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA; Eleusine. 
pva or early Soloo, is the Telinga name of the grain, - 
Sodee the name of the plant. 
Beng. Murooa. 
Raggee of the Coast Mahomedans. é 
"This species is cultivated during the rains. I never saw it wild, 
Culms erect, generally several from the same grain of seed j from. 
two to four feet high, a little compressed, smooth.— Leaves bifarious, 
large, smooth; mouths of the sheaths bearded.—Spikes, from four to : 
six, digitate, incurvate, secund, from one to three inches long, com- — 
posed of two rows of sessile, from three to six-flowered spikelets. Ka- 
chis compressed, a little waved.--Calyx from three to six-fowered, 
exterior glumes twice as long as the interior; both are keeled, ob- 
tuse, and membranaceous-margined. —Corol, valves nearly equal.— 
Seed globular, dark brown, a little wrinkled, covered with er 
lucid, membranaceous aril. 
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.. 9. E. stricta. R. 
Culms erect, from two to five feet high, compressed. Leavesbi- —. 
 farious. Spikes digitate, straight. Calyces from three to six-flow- 
ered. Seed round. 
Teling. Pedda, viz. great Soloo. 
Hind. Raggee. 
This is still more cultivated than the last, and differs from it on- 
ly in having the spikes straight, being generally of a larger size, and 
more productive, the great weight of the seed, when full grown bends 
the spikes down into a horizontal direction. 
There is a variety of this straight-spiked sort, which the Tenge 
farmers called maddee rooba soloo; it grows to still a arges size, 
with a greater number of straight spikes. 
They ail require a light rich soil, on which the water does not 
. remain after heavy rains. The first or early sort does not require - 
so rich /a soil as the other two, it is sown earlier by which means | 
' the same ground yields two crops. From July to January inclu- 
Sive they reckon on an increase of about one hundred : and twenty, 
fold if the soil and season are favourable. 
