342 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Eleusine. 
Culms spreading, ramous, creeping, with their flower- 
bearing extremities ascending, from six to twelve inches Tong. 
Branches generally 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. Calyx, from - 
six to twelve-flowered, equal, acute, striated.  Corol, outer 
valve keeled, acute, three-nerved, very hairy near the base, 
inner valve as in Poa, with its back ciliate. Seed oval, com- 
pressed, smooth, and brown; dropping from the corol en 
ripe. 
Obs. Both these species are of a coarse nature. 
« The Linnzean definition of the genus does not accord well 
with the only’ two species I have met with in India. ‘That : 
of Poa agrees better with their essential character ; and had 
not Burman, 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 I forgot to examine the seeds in a sufficiently — 
exact manner. I suspect they have the aril of the following 
genus, because they pes much of f its general habit. 
ELEUSINE. Gert. Carp. i. p- yee 
eh. two-valved, containing many flowers. es a ‘: 
valvelets, Seed with a complete membranaceous aril. 
1. E. Coracana. Gert. Conn i i. s. it 
Culms erect, from two to four feet high, compressed, Leabes 
bifarious, Spikes digitate, ineurved, Calyces from three to six- _ 
flowered, Seed round. imac 
_* T adopt Gertner’s name on account of the aril; sonal uc | 
the seed,. and ee ee Se a eigeae -4 
the Indian species that I have yet met with, — is 
