344 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Eleusine, 
Telinga farmers called maddee rooba soloo ; it grows toa still 
larger size, with a greater number of straight spikes. 
They all require a light rich soil, on which the water does 
not remain after heavy rains. The first or early sort doesnot 
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 inclusive they reckon on an increase of about one’ 
hundred and twenty fold if the soil and season are favoura- 
ble. 
The second sort requires a richer soil; it is sown later in 
the season ; its increase is greater. 
The third sort, maddi ruba soloo, requires a still nclec bile 
land fit for it is scarce, and the rent high. Iam 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 
amongst some rubbish in my garden at Samulcotah, two tufts 
of this plant, each, upon examination, I found to be the pro- 
duce 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 up- 
_ On an average six spikes, (for they had from four to eight) 
in all four hundred and fifty spikes, each of these had at a 
medium sixty spikelets, and each spikelet ripened on an 
average three or four seeds, total produce eighty-one thou- 
sand. I was myself particularly. —— 
above produce because it was so astonishingly great, ‘ 
In the Rajamundry Circar; where these observations were — 
made, the soil is in general rich, and the season fayourable. 
3, E. egyptica, R 
_Culns with a creeping base, from one to aa Poe: highs 
Spikes four-fold, cruciate, Calyces daggered, from three to 
four-flowered, Seed one sosnarelent adbeniietis ani tans 
+ —aornely Ragone. deitids ieivioiade-s ape 
