Eleusine. triandria digynia. 343 



Cynosurus Coracanus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 415. 



Tsjetti-pullu. Rheed. Horl. Mai. xii. p. 149. /. 78. 



Panicum gramineum seu Naatsjoni. Rumph. A:nb. v. p. 

 203. t.76.f.2. 



It is called Nutchanee by Europeans on the Coromandel 

 coast. 



Ponassa, or early Soloo, is the Telinga name of the grain, 

 and Sodee the name of the plant. 



Bony. Murooa. 



Rag-o-ee 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, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. 

 Spikes, from four to six, digitate, incurvate, sccund, from one 

 to three inches long, composed of two rows of sessile, from 

 three to six-flowered spikelets. Racliis 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. Corof, valves nearly equal. Seed 

 globular, dark brown, a little wrinkled, covered with a thin, 

 pellucid, membranaceous aril. 



2. E. strict a. R. 



Culms erect, from two to five feet high, compressed. Leaves 

 bifarious. Spikes digitate, straight. Calyces from three to six- 

 flowered. Seed round. 



Te/iny. Pedda, viz. great Soloo. 



Hind. Ra«-<ree. 



This is still more cultivated than the last, and differs from 

 it only in having the spikes straight, being generally of a 

 lar«er size, and more productive, the great weight of the seed, 

 when full grown bends the spikes down into a horizontal di- 

 rection. 



There is a variety of t«his straight-spiked sort, which the 



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