139. GBAMINE.E. [22. Elbusine. 



reduplicate, toothed or notched. Rhachilla somewhat adiiate to iii, 

 shortly produced, •03--04" long, bearing a curious semitubular or 

 bucciniform truncate glume -06" long with 2 minute auricles at tip 

 and an awn -3" long. Grain fusiform, sometimes slightly curved, 

 •06--07" long, pericarp loose. 



Frequent. Sometimes on old brick walls. Santal Parg-., Kitrz, etc. ! Monghyr, 

 MoJciml GjB,, 3foJciih I Ranchi, irooi/ ! Fl., Fr. Sept. -Nov. Annnal. 



I doubt the specific value of the number of upper empty glumes. Some speci- 

 mens of virgata at Kew have 2 emijtj^ glumes. 



5. C. barbata, Sw. 



Rather a robust species ascending 1-3 ft. high from a usually very 

 geniculate much proliferously branched base. Leaves long, 6-15" 

 by -12" smooth or scaberulous, hairy at base and at top of sheath or 

 not, ligule very narrow. Spikes crowded 6-20 erect at the top of 

 the stem, 1-3-5" long, easily recognised from the balloon-like appear- 

 ance of the barren glumes, rhachis scaberulous. Spikelets minutely 

 pedicelled ; gl. i about -OS" ; ii not awned, -08" ; iii obovate and 

 rounded when opened out, -V long, very ciliate above the middle, 

 awn -2" ; palea broadly lanceolate or obovate ; rhachilla adnate then 

 free, short, bearing 2 curiously inflated or very concave obcuneate or 

 obovate (when opened out) truncate glumes, lower -03" with awn 

 about -15 — 17", upper shorter subglobose with shorter awn. 



Piirneah, T. Anders. ! Santal Parganas, Jlokini. ! Puri, King, Wahh ! Fl. 

 Oct.-Nov. Perennial. 



<5. C. montana, Roxh. 



This is recorded in Bevgal Plants as from Western Eehar, apparently on account 

 of its general distribution, as no specimens from that region appear to be either at 

 Kew or Calcutta, but there are some from the Upper Gangetic Plain. 



The spikes are 2-6 only, rhachis glabrous. Gl. i and ii both finelj' acuminate or 

 ii shortly awned; iii ovoid acute, "Og-'l" long, upper margins more or less thickly 

 bearded as in virgata, awned; iv much smaller cuneate, conduplicate and em- 

 bracing V and vi, awned from the truncate tip; v cuneate or subglobose, small 

 and enclosing the still smaller or minute gl. vi, both awned. Rhachilla jointed at 

 base onlj^. 



22, ELEUSINE, Gaerin. 



Annual or perennial, leaves usually flat. Spikelets often crowded, 

 closely 2-3 -seriate and unilateral or secund on digitate capitate or 

 subverticillate spikes, laterally compressed with their sides to the 

 rhachis, not jointed at the base, rhachilla with internodes between 

 the flg. glumes, not jointed. Glumes few or many, keeled ; i and ii 

 shorter than the flowering, persistent, subequal or unec[ual, i lanceo- 

 late, ii lanceolate, acute or acuminate or awned, or very broadly 

 ovate, or didjaiious with a short stout recurved awn ; flg. glumes 

 several (uppermost often smaller and imperfect), like the empty, 

 3-nerved or sometimes obscurely 5-7-nerved ; palea complicate or 

 reduplicate, keels strong. Lod. 2, cuneate. Anthers 3, short. Style 

 short, distinct. Grain free, oblong or globose, pericarp hyaline, loose, 

 seed rugose or smooth. 



