CMoris.] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 293 



or branched. Leaves 3-8 in., narrow, finely acuminate; mouth of sheath ciliate; 

 ligule very short. Spikes 1-3 in., erect, very pale. Spikelets - in.; gl. I and II 

 both finely acuminate, or II which is much the largest obtuse and shortly awned; 

 III ovoid, acute, upper margins more or less thickly bearded ; IV and V cuneiform, 

 glabrous or ciliate ; VI minute, awned. Very variable in the length of the spikes 

 and size of the spikelets. 



11. C. Wig-htiana, Nees in Wight Gat. n. 1766; Steud. Syn. Gram.206; 

 spikes 3-5, rachis villous, spikelets 4-awned. Chloris, Wall Gat. n. 3809. 



SOUTHERN INDIA, Wight. 



Stem 4-6 in., stout, much branched, decumbent and leafy below, sometimes 

 creeping. Leaves 2-4 by - in., flat, linear, acuminate and sheaths pubescent; 

 ligule of hairs. Spikes red-brown, stout. Spikelets, gl. I and II ovate-lanceolate ; 

 I acuminate; II longer, tip notched mucronate ; III as long as II, obliquely 

 broadly ovate in profile, suddenly narrowed into the terminal awn, lateral nerves 

 marginal above and keel villously bearded ; palea very broad, keels ciliate ; IV like 

 III but smaller ; V subglobose, glabrous, VI very minute. 



DOUBTFUL AND EEJECTED SPECIES. 



C. MONOSTACHYA, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 238.- C. distachya (Kunth Rev. 

 Gram. i. 291, t. 57. Eleusine monostachya, Spreng. Syst. i. 249. Leptochloa ? 

 monostachya, Reaum. fy Sch. St/st. ii. 580. Cynosurus monostachyas, Vahl Symb. 

 ii. 20) is a Mauritian grass, not found hitherto in India. 



C. PENICILLATA, Pers. Syn. i. 87 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 268; Steud. Syn. Gram 

 206. Cynosurus penicillatus, VoM Symb. ii. 21. Eleusine penicillata, Spreng. Syst. i. 

 350. Vahl's description does not enable me to identify this. 



90. ELEUSINE, Gaertn. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves long or short. Spikelets 3-12-fld. 

 (fl. all but terminal perfect) sessile, 2-3-seriate and secund, forming digitate 

 capitate or whorled spikes, laterally compressed, not jointed at the base; 

 rachilla continuous between the fl. glumes. Glumes few or many, keeled, 

 I and II shorter than the flg., subequal or unequal, persistent; I lanceo- 

 late; II lanceolate, acute or acuminate, or very broadiy ovate, or didymous 

 with a short stou^" recurved awn ; flg. gls. like the empty 3-nerved ; palea 

 complicate, keels strong. Lodicules 2, cuneate. Anthers 3, short. Styles 

 short, distinct. Grain free, pericarp hyaline, loose. Seed rugose. Species 

 about 7, all warm countries. 



The specimens of this genus are absent from the Wallichian Herbarium in the 

 Liunean Society's rooms ; tlie tickets alone existing there. 



I. ELEUSINE proper. Spikelets densely imbricate, pointing forward. 

 Gl. II obtuse acute or acuminate. 



1. E. indica, Gsertn. Fruct. i. 8 ; annual, erect, leaves flat, spikes 

 digitate elongate, glumes subacute glabrous. Lamk. III. i. 203, t. 48 ; 

 Kunth Enum. PI. i. 273, Suppl. 224, t. 16, f. 4; Steud. Syn. Grain. 211 ; 

 JKoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 345 ; Grah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 235 ; Griff. Notul. iii. 52, 53, 

 Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 119, f. 156 & t. 150, f. 1 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeylan. 371 ; 

 Trimen Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjdb PL 168 ; Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 34, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 57, t. 69 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 385 ; 

 Wall. Cat.n. 3816; Wight Cat. n. 1758; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 555; Benth. 

 FLHonqk. 429, Fl. Austral, vii. 615; Nets Agrost. Bras. 439, Fl. Afr. 

 Austr. 251 ; G'ri*eb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 540. E. ilistachyn, Trin. ex Sttud. 



