Eleusine. triandria digynia. 343 



iierally opposite. Leaves short, with their margins ciliate — TJead 

 or spike terminal, loiig-peduncled, globular, composed of two or 

 three, sessile, secund, short spikes, winch are again composed of two 

 rows of alieniate, from six to Iwelve-tlowered, sessile, ovate-oblong 

 spikelels. — Calyx, from six to twelve- flowered, equal, acute, stiiat- 

 ed. — Coral, outer valve keeled, acute, three-nerved, very hairy near 

 the base, inner valve as in Poci, with its back ciliate. — Seed oval, 

 compressed, smooth, and brown ; dropping from the corol when ripe. 



Obs. Both these species are of a coarse nature. 



The Linnean detinition of the genus does not accord well with 

 the only two species 1 have met with in India. That of Foa agrees 

 better with their essential character ; and had not Burman, in his 

 Flora indka, made them both belong to this genus, I should certainly 

 have considered them as species of Voa, though in their general 

 habit they by no means agree with the elegant plants of that genus. 

 When I had an opportunity [ forgot to examine the seeds in a 

 sufficiently exact manner. I suspect they have the aril of the fol- 

 lowing genus, because they have much of its general habit. 



ELEUSINE. Gart. Carp. i. p. 7* 

 Calyx two-valved, containing many flowers of two equal valvelets. 

 Seed with- a complete membranaceous aril. 



1. E. Coracana. Cart. Carp. i. 8. ^. 1. 



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

 bilarious. Spikes digitate, incurved. Calyces from three to six- 

 flowered. Seed round. 



Cynosurus Coracanus. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. i. 415. 



Tsjetti-pullu. Rheed. Hort. Mai. xii. p. 149. t. 78. 



Panicum gramineum sen Naatsjoni. Rumph. amb. v. ^.203.^.76. 



/. 2. 



It is called Nutchanee by Europeans on the Coromandel Coast. 



• I adopt Gajitner's name on account of the aril, which envelops the seed, and 

 the total want of the involucre of Cynosurus in all the Indian species that I have 

 jet met with, 



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