FIIL Eleusine. 251 



1. Eleusme indica Gaertn. culmo compresso basi saepe re- 

 penfe ramoso, vaginis ore saepiusque el mgrgine villosis, spicis 

 reclis strictis rhacbi angusta aequali, spiculis subsexfloris, semine 

 ovali. 



Eleusine indica W.-Arn. et N. ab E. Glum. ind. or. N. ab 

 E. in Mart. Flor, Bras. II. p. 439. {cum syn.) Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 or. I. p. 34S. ed. Car. et Wall. I. p. 346. 7i. 4, Tab. pict. 

 8S0. Kunth. En. I. p. 272. n. 1. Trin. ic. gram. VI. t. 71. 

 Herb. Wight. n. 17S8. Wall. Cat. n. 3816. 1. 



Peninsula Ind. or. (China, Insulae Societatis (Tahiti), Mendoza 

 in Peruvia etc. (Herb. Lindl.). 



In ripa Key fluvii alt. SOO', (Drege) 0. 



2. Eleusine Coracana Gaertn. culmo ereclo compresso sim- 

 plici, vaginis ore barbalis, spicis lalis demum incurvis, rhachi mar- 

 gine dilatala aetate rcpanda, spiculis subsexfloris dilalalis confer- 

 lissimis, semine subgloboso subtiliter ruguloso. 



Eleusine Coracana Gaertn. de Fruct. I. p. 8. t. i. f. \i. 

 W.-Arn. et N. ab E. Glum Ind. or. ined. Kunth. En. I. p. 

 273. n. 4. Trin. ic. gr. VI. t. 70, Roxb. Flor. Ind. or. I. 

 p. 243. ed. Car. et Wall. I. p. 343. n. 1. Tab. pict. 848. 

 Wall. Cat. n. 3817. Rheed. Hort. Mal. XII. t. 78. 



^, Stricta, spicis rectis. W,-Arn. et N. ab E. l. c. 



Eleusine stricta Roxb. Fl. Ind. or. I. p. 343. ed. Car. et 

 Wall. p. 344. n. 2. Wight. Cat. n. 17S9. 



In India orientali culta (et spontanea?). 



Var. ^. Ad Port Nalal io hortis Caffrorum, (Drege). ^. 



Simillima praecedenti, a qua, praeter characteres adnotatos 

 et habitum proprium, parum differt. Gluma superior quandoque 

 dorso S-nervis; etiam valvula inferior 5-nervis occurrit. 



Var. /?., spicis reclis, statum spoutaneum aul sdlem a cultura 

 neglectum exhibet. 



