294 CLXXiii. GRAMIXEJK. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Eltusine. 



Norn. Ed. II. i. 549. E. distans, Mczncli. Meth. 210. E. domingensis, Sieb. 

 (x Schult Mant. ii. 323. E. Gouim, iuaequahs, rigidifolia, & scabra, Fourn. 

 ex Hemsl. Biol. Ctntr. Amer. iii. 565. E. gracilis, Sulisb. Prodr. 19. 

 E. margin at a, Lindl. in Mitch. Three Exped. i. 319 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 212. I/, tiistachya, Lamk. I. c.; Eunfh JKevis. Gram. i. 92, Enum. i. 273 ; 

 Steud. I. c. Cyuopurus indicus, Linn. Sp. PI. 72. C. Ara, Herb. Ham. ex 

 Wall. Cat. n. 3816 I. PC. pectinatus, LamJc Encycl. ii. 188. PLeptochloa 

 pectinata, Kunth Itevis. Gram. i. 91, Enum. PL 272; Steud. I. c. 210. 

 Par.icum compressum, Forsk. Fl. jEg. Arab. 18. Paspalura dissectum, 

 Kniplwf. Cent Bot.inOriy. 1. 11. Triticum gerainatum, Spreng. Syst. i. 326. 

 Agropyrum gerainatum, Schult. Mant. iii. 655. Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 69. 



Throughout the low country of INDIA (ascending to 5000 ft. in the Himalaya) tp 

 PENAN& and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Tropical Old World ; iutrod. into the New. 



Stem 1-2 ft., stout, poft. Leaves distichous, narrow, flaccid, acuminate ; sheaths 

 flattened, ciliate; ligule obsolete. Spikes 5-7, 2-5 in. long, all in a terminal whorl, 

 or with sometimes 1 or 2 lower down. Spikelets very variable in size, T 1 ^ in., 

 3-5-fld. ; quite glabrous; gl. I small, 1 . nerved ; II 3-nerved ; III and succeeding 

 ovate, subacute. Grain oblong; pericarp loose, but persistent; seed oblong rugose. 



CULT. FORM. E. COHACANA, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 8, t. 1 ; stem stout 2-5 ft. often 

 as thick as the thumb, leaves broad, spikes very stout up to 6 in. long by in. broad 

 straight or incurved, grain globose. Lamk. Illustr. t. 28; Schreb. Gram, ii. t. 35; 

 Trin. 8 p. Gram. Ic. t. 70 ; Stead. Syn. Gram. 211; Panz. in Muench. Denkschr. 

 iv. (1811) t. 8; Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 251; Kunth Enum. PL i. 273, 'Suppl. 

 225; lloxb. FL Ind. i. 342; Wall. Cat. n. 3817; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 235; 

 Aitchls. Cat. Panjab PL 168; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 109; Duthie Gross. N.W. Ind. 

 34, Fodd. Grass. 'N. Ind. 57, t. 69, Field Sf Gard. Crops, 15, t. 28 ; Miquel FL Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 386; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 373. E. cerealis, 

 Sa/inb. Prodr. 19. E. sphffiro-perma, Stokes But. Nat. Med. i. . 49. E. stricta, 

 Ruxb. I.e. 343; Kunth 1. c. ; Steud, L c. E. Tocussa, Fresen. in Mus. Senkenb. ii. 

 (18<7) J41. C'ynosurus coracauu*, Linn. Syst. Ed. 11. 875. Rheede Hort. Hal. xii, 

 t. 78. Cultivated iu all parts of India. 



2. E. flagrellifera, Nees in Linnsea, xvi. (1842) 220; perennial, 

 prostrate, pruliterously branched, leaves v-ry short glaucous, spikes digitate, 

 gl. II lanceolate mucronate or aristulate, III hairy acute. Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 211 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 34, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 57, t. 37; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, -v, 655. E. arabica, Hochst. ex Slcud. I. c. ; Aitchis. Cat. 

 Panjab PI. 167; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 377. 

 E. ? stolonifera, Br. in Salt Abyss. App. 63. P Ochthocloa dactyloides, 

 Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xi. (1842) 27. 



PLAINS of the PANJAB, Royle, Jacquemont, &c. SCIND, Sfocks, &c. DISTRIB, 

 Affghau. and westward to N. Africa. 



Stems stout or slender, smooth, stiff, widely spreading, rooting at the distant 

 thickened leafy nodes, and sending up slender branches; iuternodcs 4-8 in. Leaves 

 $-H i n -> rtgi 1 '} recurved, flat or tortuous ; ligule hairy. Spikes 3-6, 1-H > l n g> 

 very variable in breadth, i ^ in.; rachis pubescent. Spikelets imbricate, sub- 

 pedicelled, ^-5 in. long, 4-6-fld., green or brownish ; gi. I small, ovatq, acute, 

 membranous; II twice as large, coriaceous with membranous margins; III ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, chartaceous, 3-nerved, mid-nerve compound, sides and 

 membranous margins below ha ; ry ; palea elliptic-oblong, keels hairy. Ochthocloa 

 dactyloides, Edgew., is a doubifui plant of which I have seen uo specimens. It is 

 not included iu any of Duthie's w.orks on. the Grasses of N.W. India. It might 

 be traced by its habitat. Loodiana, Jassowala, on tumuli with Capparis aphylla. 



3. E. brevifolia, Br. in Wall. Cat. n. 3815; annual, stems short 



