Eleusine. TRIANDRIA DIGYNTA, 348 
Cynosurus Coracanus, Linn: sp. pl. ed. Willd. i, - 
_ Psjetti-pulla. Rheed, Hort. Mal, xii. p- 149, t. 78. 
Panicum gramineum seu ees Rumph. Amb. ve P- 
203. 1. 76. f. 2, 
It is called Nutchanee by Europeans on the Corotieniided 
coast, : 
» Ponassa; or early Soloo, is the Telinga name of the grain, 
“a Sodee the name of the plant, 
Beng. Murooa. 
Raggee of the Coast Mahomedans, 
This species is cultivated during the rains. I never saw it 
wild, 
Culms erect, generally several from the same grain of seed ; 
from two to four feet high, a little compressed, smooth. Leaves 
bifarious, large, omialils mouths of the sheaths - bearded. 
Spikes, from four to six, digitata; incurvate, secund, from one 
to three inches long, composed of two_rows of sessile, from 3 
three to six-flowered spikelets. Rachis compressed, a little 
‘waved. Calyx from three to six-flowered, exterior glumes 
twice as long: as the interior; both are keeled, obtuse, and 
membranaceous margined, Corol, valves nearly equal, Seed 
_ globular, dark brown, a little wrinkled, covered with a thin, 
ee aril. . 
2. E. stricta, R. 
Culms erect, from two to five feet high, Siac: Leaves 
bifarious. Spikes digitate, straight. Calyces from three to six- 
flowered. Seed round. - 
‘ Teling. Pedda, viz. ee ae 
Hind. Raggee. — 
- This is still cecsdianiieat eeu a ae 
it only in having the spikes straight, being generally of a 
larger size, and more productive, the great weight of the seed, 
whem iting oeaeiaa ail down into a horizontal di- 
There is a variety of this straight spiked sort, whiclr a : 
