174 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



38. Eleusixe, Gaertn. 



Annual or perennials. Leaves linear. Spikes digitate or 

 vliorled, laterally compressed not jointed at the base. Spikelets 

 sessile seeiind in 2 or more rows 3 to 12 flowered, all but the terminal 

 ones perfect, racliilla continuous between the glumes. Glumes few 

 or man}'. Gl. I lanceolate. Gl. II lanceolate or ovate awncd or not. 

 Flowering glumes ovate. Stamens 3. Anthers short. Styles short. 

 Grain with a loose hyaline pericarp, and a tul^ercled or wrinkled seed. 



Species aljout 7. All warm countries. 



Spikes elongate, spikelets pointed forward . . I.E. indica. 

 Spikes short digitate, spikelets erect . . '. . 2. E. aegyptiaca. 



1. E. iNDiCA, Gaert. Fruct. I. 8. Annual, stems erect about 1 

 to 3 feet tall, glabrous, geniculate or not. Leaves -12 inches long 



-.{ inch wide. Spikes 5-10 ligjit green whorled spreading or erect 

 with often one solitary one below 3-6 inches long. Spikelets yVe inch 

 long 3 to .■) flowered. Glumes membranous pale green with darker 

 veijis. Glume I oblong ovate. Glume II twice as big acute keeled. 

 Keel scabrous or smooth. U])per flowering glumes ovate obtuse or 

 acute, keels scaberulous or not. Palea narrow keels scabrid. Grain 

 oblong pericarp loose, seed tubercled in waved ridges. Kunth. Enum. 

 PI. I. 373. Hook. fll. I.e. 293. Cynosurus indicm,, L. Sp. PI. 72. 

 Common all over the peninsula. '' lUimput Sambau."" 



var. E. roracana. Gaert. Fruct. I. 8 t. 1. Stems very stout and 

 tall leaves broader. Spikes stout as much as 6 inches long and half 

 an inch thick straight or incurved grain globose. A cultivated form 

 occasionally occurring in waste ground. 



Singapore: Sungei Ujong, Port Dickson and Kuala Lumpur. 



2. E. AEGYPTIACA, Dcsf. Fl. Atlaut. I. 85. Annual creeping. 

 Stems geniculate a foot or more tall rather slender. Leaves linear 

 flaccid 3 inches long -J- inch wide hairy. Spikes 2 to 5 digitate 1 inch 

 long, tiiick, base bearded. Spikelets very many in several rows, ^^5 

 to J incli long flattened 3 or 4 flowci'od, rachis triangular prolonged 

 to a shoit point. Cilume I boat-shaped acute keeled, II ovate awncd, 

 keeled. Awn as long as the glume or shorter. Flowering glumes 

 ovate keeled, with an ercH.-t or recurved mucro, scabridly serrate as is 

 the edge, tip notched palea shorter obtuse or acute 2 toothed edges 

 scabrid. Anthers verv small. Seed orbicular tubercled. Hook. fll. 

 Fl. Brit. lud. VII. 21)5. Griff. Notul. III. 51. Ic. PI. As.t. 139. 

 f. ?y. E. crucinla, Lam. III. I. 203. t. 48. f. 2. Daclijhctcniuni 

 aeyyidiacuin, Willd. I^num. Hort. Berl. J021). 



Singapore: Gelang, Holland Kuad ; Pahang: Sungei Mcaug (Rid- 

 ley 1413), Pekan (1015); Selangor: Kuala Selangor; Province 



