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Eleusine. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 345 
Cynosurus wgypticus. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd, i. 416. 
Gramen vaccinum. Rumph. Amb. vi. p. 10. t. 4. f. 1. 
Cavara-pullu. Rheed, Mal. xii. p. 131, t. 69. FB 
Hind, Makura-jali. 
_ Grows in pasture ground, and by road sides, &c, 
Culms, creeping near the base; the remaining part nearly 
erect for a foot, or a foot and a half, ramous, a little compress- 
ed, and smooth, Leaves fringed with hairs. Spikes termi- 
nal, from three to five, horizontal, secund, &c. as in E. Cara- 
cana. Calyx from three to four-flowered ; glumes acute, parti- 
cularly the exterior one which ends in a short awn,. Corol, 
outer valve very acute. Seed oval, somewhat three-sided, 
wrinkled, arilled, but in this species the aril is so thin and de- 
licate, as to be often removed by the time the seed is Sse 
grown, — 
Obs, Cattle are fond of it. 
A, E, indica. Gert. Carp. i.p. 8. t. 1. 
Erect, smooth, from one to two feet high, Leaves biftrious. 
Spikes from five to seven, digitate. Calyces from three to 
five-flowered ; seed oblong, three-sided, rugose. — ‘ 
-Cynosurus indicus, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 417. 
Hind. Mal-ankuri. 
Teling, Kuror, viz. wild soloo, 
_A common coarse species, found growing in large tufts on 
pasture ground, road sides, &c, 
Culms ascending: at the base, ramous, a little compressed, 
smooth, from one to two feet high. Leaves bifarious, large; 
with a few long white hairs scattered over the insides and — 
sheaths, Spikes terminal, from three to six, expanding ; one 
generally standing single a little below the rest, linear, secund, 
from two to four inches long ; Sse amscas ampees and hairy, 
spikelets in two rows on the underside, Calyx from three to 
five-flowered ; glumes equal, 28 long?itsithe flowers, smooth, 
and rather obtuse. Corol, valves smooth, obtuse, Seed ob- 
tusely three-sided, rugose, arilled, 
