Eleusine, . "TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. ; 345 
< The second sort requires a richer soil ; itis sown later in the sea- 
son ; its increase is greater. i : 
The third sort, maddi ruba soloo, - requires a still idie soil; wm 
fit for it is.scarce, and the rent high. I am ‘informed that it is nearly - 
twice as much as that of land fit for the first sort, the increase of this 
kind is prodigious, five hundred fold, the farmers say, if the season 
and soil are favourable. - 
About twenty years ago, there came up accidentally among st some 
rubbish in my garden at Samul-cotah, two tufts, of this plant, each, 
upon examination, | found to be the produce of one seed, each had 
, twenty-five culms, and each of these culms had on an average two 
lateral branches making in all seventy-five culms and branches, each 
produced upon an average, six spikes, (for they had from four to 
eight) in all four hundred and fifty spikes, each of these had at a me- 
| dium sixty spikelets, and each spikelet ripened on an average three 
or four seeds, total*produce eighty-one thousand. I was myself par- 
‘ticularly attentive in counting the above produce because it was so 
astonishingly great. | 
- li the Rajamundry Circar, where these observations were made,, 
the soil is in general rich, and the season favourable, 
- $. E. egypticai R. à az 
- Culms with a creepmg base, from one to two ste hight. Spikes: 
four-fold, cruciate. Calyces daggered, from three to four-flowered.- 
‘Seed oval, somewhat three-sided, and transversely ips 
Cynosurus egypticus. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd:i. 416. 
.. Gramen vaccinum. Rumph: amb. vi. p. 10. t. 4. fil. 
~ Cavara-pullu. Rheed. Mal. xii. P By tO — 
Hind. Makura-jali. dix cR 
` Grows in pasture ground, and by road sides, E 
Culms, creeping near the base; the remaining part nearly erect 
for a foot, or a foot and a half, ramous, a little compressed, aud 
smooth.— Leaves fringed with hairs.— Spikes terminal, from three to. 
fie, ee, secund, &e, as in E. — Calya | from three 
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