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Botanical description (B. F1., vii, 614).— 
Stems erect, slender but rigid, 1 to 2 feet high. 
Leaves narrow with subulate points or almost entirely flat in the larger specimens, 
glabrous. 
Spikes four to six, dense, 1 to 14 inches long. 
Spikelets sessile, 3 to 4 lines long. 
Lowest ylume narrow, hyaline, almost obtuse, scarcely keeled, about 2 lines long, 
the second rather longer, with a more prominent keel. 
Flowering glume raised on a hairy rhachis of about 1 line, rather above 1 line 
long, very broad and concave, prominently three-nerved, ciliate with long hairs 
at the end, with a fine awn of 2 to 3 lines. 
Terminal empty glumes several (four to seven), the lowest two broader than the 
flowering one, five- to seven-nerved at the base, hyaline and not ciliate, very 
spreading and at length rigidly scarious; the upper ones gradually smaller 
sessile and not exceeding the outer ones. 
Value as a fodder.—A beautiful grass, but perhaps of little value 
for pasture ; worthy of garden cultivation. It may, however, prove 
to be of more value to the pastoralist when we know more about it. 
Habitat and range.—F¥ound in Western and South Australia, also 
in New South Wales and Queensland. In our own Colony it has only 
been recorded from Hungerford, and may be looked for in other 
localities in the north-west of the Colony. 
74, KELEUSINE. 
Spikelets several-flowered, flat, imbricate in two rows along one 
side of the digitate or scattered branches of a simple panicle, the 
rhachis of the spikelet articulate above the outer glumes. 
Glumes spreading, keeled and complicate, thin, but rigid, the two 
outer empty ones usually shorter, unequal, obtuse, acute or tapering 
to a short point. 
Flowering glumes obtuse or less poited, the terminal one usually 
empty or rudimentary. 
Palea folded. 
Styles short, distinct. 
Seed rugose within a loose membranous pericarp, which either 
persists round the ripe seed or breaks up and falls away or otherwise’ 
disappears as the ovary enlarges. 
Spikes digitate, short. Spikelets very closely packed, the glumes 
very pointed, the second outer one almost awned. Pericarp 
evanescent... sen Ne Nie sie ae oe .. Ll. H. egyptiaca. 
Spikes digitate, or with one lower down, 2 to 3 inches long. 
Glumes obtuse. Pericarp persistent... ig “eb ... 2, H. mdiea. 
1, Eleusine egyptiaca, Pers. 
Botanical name.—Hleusine, Latin eleusinius, of or belonging to 
Ceres, the goddess of corn and tillage; xgyptiaca, Egyptian. 
Synonym.—H. cruciata, Lam.; Dactylocteniwm egyptiacum, Willd. 
Vernacular names.—‘ Small Crow-foot Grass” ; “ Egyptian Finger- 
crass.” 
Where figured—Duthie, Kearney, Agricultural Gazette. 
