Eleusine. triandria digynia. 345 



Cynosuras aegypticus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 416. 



Gramen vaccinum. Rumph. Amb. vi. p. 10. t. \.f. 1. 



Cavara-pullu. Rheed. Mai. xii. p. 131. t. 69. 



Hind. Mak?fra-jal?'. 



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 full 

 grown. 



Obs. Cattle are fond of it. 



4. E. indicci. Ga>rt. Carp. i.p. S.t. 1. 



Erect, smooth, from one to two feet high. Leaves bifarious. 

 Spikes from five to seven, digitate. Calyces from three to 

 five-flowered ; seed oblong, three-sided, rugose. 



Cynosurus indicus. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. \. 417. 



Hind. Mal-ankwr?. 



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; insertions glandular and hairy, 

 spikelets in two rows on the underside. Calyx from three to 

 five-flowered ; glumes equal, as long as the flowers, smooth, 

 and rather obtuse. Corol, valves smooth, obtuse. Seed ob- 

 tusely three-sided, rugose, arilled. 



