Eleusine.~] CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. I). Hooker.) 295 



creeping and rooting, leaves small lanceolate acuminate, spikes very many 

 short crowded in globose heads, flg. gls. and palea villously bearded. 

 E. oligostachya, Herb. Wight, n. 3332. E Wallichii, Munro mss. Koeleria 

 brevifolia, Spreng. Pugili. ii. 21. K. lagopoides, Panz. ex Spreng. I.e. 

 Dactylis brevifolia, Koen. ex Willd. Sp. PI. i. 410 (excl. Syn.) ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 341 ; ?Steud. Syn. Gram. 298. D. cynosaroides, Koen. ex Roth. Nov. 

 Sp. 74 (non Linn.}. D. geniculata, Roxl). Ic. Pict. ined. t. 346 (non Burm.). 

 Poa brevifolia, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. Ill, Enum. PL i. 324. P. lagopoides, 

 Nees ex Wight Cat. n. 1790. ^Eluropus brevifolius, Nees ex Steud. Norn. 

 Ed. II. i. 30; Herb. Wight Prop. 1792. M. Ia3vis, Tnn. Fund. Agrost. 

 143, t. 12. M. pubescens, Steud. Nom. I. c. Eragrostis brevifolia, Benth. 

 in Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. 51. Triodia cyno^uroides, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 331. 

 Cyperus Coracana, Herb. Heyne ex Wall. I. c. 



Sandy shores of the COROMANDEL and CARNATIC coasts, Heyne, &c. 



Annual. Stems many, spreading from the root, 2-4 in. long, stout or slender. 

 Leaves 1-2 in., flaccid or rigid, lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate ; ligule obsolete. 

 Heads of spikes quite globose, - in. diam., of many (rarely few) 4-10-fld. ovate 

 sessile spikelets - in. long; gl. I and II subequal, margins hyaline, broadly ovate, 

 acuminate or cuspidate, glabrous ; I 1-3-nerved; 11 3-5-nerved, nerves close to the 

 middle line ; III and following very broadly ovate, cuspidately acuminate, 3-nerved, 

 keel and nerves and keels of ovate palea all villous below the middle. Anthers 

 minute. Styles long, slender. Grain orbicular. See remarks under jEluropus. 



4. E. verticillata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 346 ; annual, erect, leaves flat, 

 spikes scattered or whorled very many-fld., glumes acute glabrous. Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 211; Aitchis. Cat. Punjab PI. 168; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind, 

 34, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 58. t. 70 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. tioc. 

 vii. (1893) 377 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 616. E. racemosa, Heyne in Roth. 

 Nov. Sp. 80. LeptochloH ? racemosa & verticillata, Kunili Revis. Gram. i. 

 91, Enum. PI. i. '272 ; Steud. 1. c. Aerachne eleusinoides, Wight & Am. in 

 Wight Cat. n. 1760; Nees ex Steud. I.e. A. verticillata, Lindl. Introd. 

 Nat. Syst. Ed. II. 381. Eragrostidi affine, Wall. Cat. n. 3882, ex Wight 

 Cat. I. 'c. 



Plains of INDIA ; in pasture ground, Roxburgtt, &c. KASHMIE, Clarice. DISTEIB. 

 Trop. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Stem 1-3 ft., stout or slender, simple or branched, soft. Leaves rather broad, 

 flaccid, acuminate, glabrous; sheath rompressed; ligule a few hairs. Spikes, few or 

 many, -3 in. long, in tiers or whorls, or opposite or alternate, suberect; rachis 

 slender. Spikelets - in., 8-12-fld., shining; glumes small; I and II broadly 

 ovate, finely acuminate or aristulate ; flg. gls. ^ in., very broadly ovate, 3-iierved, 

 keel excurrent, lateral nerves ending in small teeth. Grain rugose, pericarp 

 caducous. 



II. DACTYLOCTENIUM, Willd. (G-en.). Spikelets erect, at right angles 

 to the rachis of the spike. Glume II short, suborbicular, abruptly shortly 

 awned. 



5. E, aegryptiaca, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 85 ; annual, leaves flat, spikes 

 digitate, glumes rigid cuspidate glabrous. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 344 : Wall Cat. 

 n. 3818 ; Griff. Notul. iii 51, Ic. PL Asiat. t 139, f. 79 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. 

 PI 109 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 615; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 34, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 56, t. 35. E. ciliata, Rafin. in Desv. Journ. Bot. iv. (1814) 

 273. E. cruciata, Lamk. Illustr. i. 203, t. 48, f. 2. E. mucrondta, Stokes 

 Mat.Med. i. 150; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 376. 

 E. pectinata, Moench Meth. Suppl. 68. E. prostrata, Spreng. Syst. i. 350. 



