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4. Eleusine aristata, Ehrenh. ex Boiss. Fl. Orienf. v. 5 (1881) 

 p. 557. Perennial, slender, prostrate, proliferously branched; stem 

 smooth, stiff, widely spreading, rooting at the distant thickened woody 

 leafy nodes and sending up very slender branches 4-12 in. long ; inter- 

 nodes 2-4 in. long. Leaves 1-4 by j^-yo ^^-i acuminate or pungent, 

 glaucous, sparsely hairy, and the margins ciliate with bulbous based 

 hairs ; sheaths glabrous or sparsely hairy ; ligule obsolete. Spikes 3 or 

 more, ^-g iu. long, spreading or decurved, bearded at the base; rhachis 

 excurrent into a pungent point. Spikelets about ^ in. long (including 

 the awns). Lower invol. -glume -^-^ in. long, ovate, acute or apiculate, 

 1-nerved, with ciliate keel ; upper invol.-glume ^ in. long (including an 

 awn gljj in. long), suborbicular ; floral glumes nearly ^ in. long, broadly 

 ovate, acute, cuspidate, glabrous, keeled, membranous, with a strong 

 midnerve and weak lateral nerves ; palea broad, the keels scaberulous. 

 Anthers tto-j^ i^- loi^g- (rrain ovoid, rugose. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 296 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 440. Eleusine sindica, 

 Duthie, Fodd. Grass. N. lud. (1888) p. 58 ; Lisboa, in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 7 (1893) p. 377. Dactyloctenmm sindicum, Boiss. Diag. ser. 2, 

 fasc. 4 (1859) p. 131. 



KoNKAN : Eatnagiri, Woodrow. Gujarat : Ahmerlabad, Woodrow. Sind : Stocks, 

 (>37 ! ; Mundgiro, Sfocls, 637 ! — Distrib. India (Panjab, Eajputana, W. Peninsula) ; 

 Beluchistan, Afghanistan, Arabia, Nubia. 



Eleusine coracana, Gsertn. Fruct. v. 1 (1788) p. 8, t. 1. Stem 2- 

 5 ft. high, often as thick as the thumb ; leaves broad ; spikes stout, 

 ^ in. broad and reaching 6 in. long ; grain globose. Only known 

 in cultivation ; very like Eleusine indica, from which it has probably 

 originated. It is extensively grown in the hilly districts of the Bombay 

 Presidency, and the grain is largely consumed by the poorer classes. 

 Fl. B. LV. 7, p. 294; Grab. Cat. p. 235; Dak. & Gibs. Siippl. p. 97 ; 

 Lisboa, in Journ. Eomb. Nat. v, 7 (1893) p. 373 ; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1229 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 237. — Yern. Ndclmi ; Ndgli. 



60. DINEBRA, Jacq. 



An annual leafy grass. Leaves flat. Spikelets 2-3-flowered, 2-seriate, 

 secund and imbricating on short slender spreading or deflexed s])ikes 

 collected in narrow pyramidal racemes, not jointed at the base; rhachilla 

 slender, jointed at the base, produced beyond the flowering glumes and 

 bearing an imperfect glume. Glumes 4-5 ; invol .-glumes persistent, 

 much longer than the floral, lanceolate, awned, 1-nerved, keeled ; lower 

 invol.-glume shorter than the upper ; floral glumes small, broadly ovate, 

 subacute, hyaliue, 1-nerved; palea hyaline, shorter than the glume, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, with flnely ciliolate keels. Lodicules 2, minute. 

 Stamens 3 ; anthers minute, didymous. Styles fi'ee, short ; stigmas 

 exserted at the apex of the glume, shortly penicillate. Grain narrowly 

 ovoid, obscurely trigonous.— Distkib. India, W. Peninsula, Ceylon, 

 Afghanistan, and westward to Senegal. 



1. Dinebra arabica, Jacq. Fragm. (1809) p. 77. Stems 1-3 ft. 

 high, tufted, stout or slender, erect or geniculately ascending, leafy 



