KEleusine.] CXLIV. GRAMINER. 615 
ripe seed or Pee up and falls away or otherwise disappears as 
the ovary enlar 
A small widely um tropical genus. Of the three Australian species two 
— weeds in warm countries, the third extends over tropical Asia and 
a 
n pee is short. Spikelets very closely packed, y 
very pointed, the 2nd outer one almost 
cu De evanescent . 1. E. egyptiaca, 
Spikes digitate or with one i lower down, 3 to 3 in. ` long. aa 
_ Glumes obtuse. Pericarp persistent . 2. E. indica. 
Spikes € 12, scattered or the upper ones s digitat . Glumes 
, the flowering ones with a -— tooth on each 
tide e the point. Pericarp sior Potens . 3. E. verticillata, 
1. E. egyptiaca, Pers. Syn.i.82.—Stems tufted or creeping and root- 
ing at the base and short] y ascending like the Cynodon dactylon,or rarely 
above 1 1 ft. high. Leaves flat, ciliate, flaccid, with long points. Spikes 
in 
Cynosurus egyptius, lige Spec. 106; “Fea eot 
E: Kunth, E ; Eleusine cruciata, Lam.; F. Muell. 
Fragm. viii. 111; Æ. radulans, R. Br. Prod. 186; Dactyloctenium radu- 
lans, Beauv. ; unth, Enum. i. 262. 
ustralia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Gulliver; Sir Char les dient Be 
Ian, Henne; Port Essington, Armstrong ; Victoria River, F. Mueller ; Dampier 
pripelng 0, Walcot. 
Booby Island, Banks and Solander ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; 
Hibat, and Nerkool Creeks, Bowman ; Gracemere, O'Shanesy; Balandool River, 
Lockyer ; Barcoo, Schneider. 
N. S. Wales. Darling River and Maranoa, Woolls. 
Central Australia. Near Lake Eyre, Andrews, Giles. 
A common weed of warm countries. 
. E. indica, Gerin. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 272.—A coarse erect tufted 
grass 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves narrow, the sheaths epis m dis- 
tichous, ciliate with a few long hairs. Spikes 5 to 7, 2 to 3 in. long, 
digitate, with usually one inserted rather lower down, t He achis 
prominent on the upper or inner side, the spikelets loosely Mdisicite 
on the opposite side. Each spikelet 1 to 2 lines long, containing 3 t 
5 flowers. Glumes obtuse, the lowest small and 1-nerved, the 2nd 
empty one and the lower flowering ones usually 3-nerved. Pericarp 
persistent, very loose and membranous, enclosing rugose seed. 
