Eleusiue. trianduia digYiNia. 34J 



The second sort requires a riclier soil ; it is sown later in the sea- 

 son ; its iii^icuse is greater. 



The third sort, maddi ruba soloo, requires a still richer soil ; land 

 fit fur it is scarce, and the rent high. I am informed that it is nearly 

 twice as much as that of land hi tor the first soit, the increase of this 

 kind IS prodigious, live 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 Sanud-cotah, two tufts of this plant, each, 

 Uj)on examination, I found to be the produce of one seed, each had 

 twenty-tive culms, and each of these culms had on an average two 

 lateral branches making in all seventy-live culms and branches, each 

 produced upon an average, six spikes, (for they'had from four to 

 eight) in all four hundred and fifty spikes, each of these had at a me- 

 dium sixty spikelcts, and each spikelet ripened on an average three 

 or four seeds, total produce eighty-one thousand. I was myself par- 

 ticularly attentive in counthig the above produce because it was so 

 astonishingly great. 



Jn the Rajamundry Circar, where these observations were made, 

 the soil is in general rich, and the season favourable. 



3. E. (Sgi/ptica. R. 



Culms with a creeping base, from one to two feet high. Sjnkes- 

 four-fold, cruciate. Ca/j/ces daggered, from three to four-flowered. 

 Seed oval, somewhat three-sided, and transversely rugose. 



Cynosurus cegypticus. Liiin. Sp. PL ed. Willd. i. 4l6. 



Gramen vaccinum. Riimph. amb. \\. p. 10. t. 4. J'. 1. 



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



Ilind. Mak?/r«-jali. 



Grows in pasture ground, and by road sides, &,c. 



Culms, creeping near the base ; the remaining [)art neaiTy erect 

 for a foot, or a foot and a half, ramous, a little compressed, and 

 smooth. — Leaves fringed with hairs. — 5p//ces terminal, from three to 

 five^ horizontal, secund, ^;c. as in E. Coracana.— Ca/j/x from three 



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