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This grass in found in England, where it is called the ' dog's-tooth grass,' 

 and is held in little esteem. h\ India, however, despite its somewhat dry and 

 uninviting look, when grubbed up as is the fashion by the roots, it is the best grass 

 for horses usually procurable, and such is its tenacity of life that it is not easily 

 extirpated, though the grass-cutters are really in this instance ' grass- rooters,' grub- 

 bing up any ami every particle of the plant that appears above the soil, and the 

 roots as well. The resulting heap of bits is now well beaten by a stick to free the 

 roots from tlie earth which adheres to thera, and in this state, or better still alter 

 being well rinsed in water (though this is unusual), horses and cattle devour it 

 gi'eedily and thrive well on it. 



DACTTLOT.i:N-iuM, VTiUdcnoic. 



Spikelets 2 or more flowered, very flat and closely imbricated along one side of 

 the spike-like tligitate branches of a simple panicle. O'/ione's spreading, keeled and 

 compressed, transparent but stiff, the lowest smaller, the second shortly awned, the 

 flowering ones gradually smaller and less pointed, the terminal one usually barren or 

 rudimentary. Faka smtdler, folded. 



J). jEqvi'tiacuii, Willd. Kamorta (K.). India. S. China. 



Eleusixe, Gaertner. 



SpikeleU 2 or more flowered, awnless, sessile, in 2 rows along one side of the 

 spike-like, almost digitate branches of a simple panicle. Glumes keeled, usually 

 obtuse, the 2 outer empty ones une(iual, and shorter than the flowering ones. I'uhas 

 rather small, folded. Axis usually slightly continued beyond the last one. Seed 

 transversely wrinkled. 



E. Inuica, Gaert. Kamorta and Katchall (K.). 



Hsen-ngo-myit. India, S. China. 



E. sTKicTA, Eoxb. 



E. CAicviNA, Koxb. Coromandel. 



Chloeis, Linmcus. 



Spikclets with 1 or rarely 2 fertile flowers, and 1 or more empty or rudimentary 

 glumes above it, singly sessile on one side of the spike-like digitate branches of a 

 simple panicle. Glumes keeled, 2 outer empty ones pointed or shortly awned, the 

 others usually awned, or the upper empty ones awnless. Caryopsis free. 



C. BAKBATA, Sw. India. Bengal. S. China. 



MiCEocHLOA, R. Browne. 



SpikeleU I -flowered, awnless, singly sessile on one side of a slender simple spike. 

 Outer glumes 2, nearly equal, the lowest with a double nerve, the second keeled. 

 Flowering glume and palea small, very thin, and transparent. 



il. SETACEA, Br. India. S. China. 



AUACHXE. 



A. VEUTICELLATA, W. ct A. India. 



Lepiochloa, Palisot de Beauvois. 



Spikelets 2 or more flowered, awnless, sessile or very shortly pedicellate, along one 

 side of the slender or spike- like branches of a long panicle. Glumes keeled, pointed 

 or obtuse, the two outer ones empty, the axis ending in a short pedicle above the last 

 flower, bearing sometimes a rudimentary glume. 



L. Chinensis, Xees. India. Burma. S. China. 



ARUXDIXIE-i:. 

 Spikelets all fertile, in a hranehed or spicule panicle, sometimes with 1 hermaphrodite 

 flower, with or without the pedicelled rudiment of an Ujpper flower ; sometimes many- 



