296 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Eleusine. 



E. radnlans, Br. Prodr. 186. Dactyloctenium segyptiacum, Willd. Enum. 

 Sort. Berol. 1029 ; Beauv. Agrost. 72, t. 15, f 2 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 261, 

 Suppl ii. 204: Steud. Syn. Gram. 211 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 235; Dalz. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 297; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 371 ; Aitch. Cat. Punjab PI. 

 167; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 384; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 556; Griseb. Fl. 

 Brit. W. Ind. 540 ; Baker FL Maurit. 452. D. distachyum, Bojer Hort. 

 Maurit. 370. D. Figarei, Notar. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. III. ix. (1848) 325. 

 D. meridionale, J?7aw. Prodr. PL Ind. Occ. 6. D. mucronatum, Willd. I. c.; 

 Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 69 ; Steud. 1. c. ; Wight Cat. n. 1761. D. prostratnm, 



Norn. Ed. II. i. 465. Chloris mucronata, Mich. FL Am. Bor. i. 59. 

 Cenchrus SBgyptius, Beauv. Agrost. 157. Rhabdochloa mucronata, Beauv. 

 I. c. 84. ^Egilops saccharinus, Walt. FL Carol, i. 249. Rlieede Hort. Mai. 

 xii. t 69. 



Throughout the low country of INDIA aud BURMA, to MALACCA and CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Warm regions of the Old World, introd. into the New. 



Stem erect, 6-18 in. h'gh, or prostrate spreading and rooting, often proliferously 

 branched at the thickened nodes. Leaves distichous, acute or acuminate, ciliate ; 

 sheaths compressed ; ligule 0. Spikes solitary or 2-5, J-l in. long, all terminal, 

 stout, rachis mucronate at the tip by the thickened excurreut midrib. Spikelets 

 densely crowded, ^V~To * n ' ^ on o' 3-4-fld., glabrous ; glumes almost pungent ; I ovate, 

 acute; IE broadly ovate, obliquely cuspidately awned, as are the following, cusps 

 recurved ; palea very broad, 2-fid, keels hispid. Grain globose, very rough, pericarp 

 evanescent. Specimens in Herb. Bottler named " Cynosurusciliaris, C. distachyus, 

 nob, an C. cegyptii, var. : sandy shores of the Ocean," are somewhat intermediate 

 between cegyptiaca and aristata, having the foliage of the former and habit of the 

 latter. This and Wight's n. 1761 b. " Dactyloct. mucronatum, ft. repens = D. 

 prostratum, Willd.," are the same. 



6. C. aristata, Ehrenl. ex Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 557; perennial, slender, 

 prostrate, proliferously branched, leaves short glaucous, spikes very short 

 capitate, gl. II abruptly shortly awned. E. glaucophylla, Munro ex 

 Benth. in Journ. Linn. Sor. xix. (1881) 107. E. scindica, Duthie Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 58, t. 36; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) 

 377. Dactyloctenium glaucophyllum, Courb. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. IV, 

 xviii. (1862) 133. D. scindicum, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. II. iv. 131, FL Orient. 

 I. c. 



The PANJAB, RAJPOOTANA, MALWA, SCIND, and BEITISH BELUCHISTAN. 

 DISTRIB. Affghan., Arabia, Nubia. 



Stem smooth, stiff, widely spreading, rooting at the distant thickened woody 

 leafy nodes, and sendinar up very slender branches 4-12 in. long ; internodes 2-4 in. 

 Leaves 1-1^ in., acuminate or pungent, margins ciliate with long tubercle-based 

 hairs ; basal sheaths hairy ; ligule obsolete. Spikes 3 or more, \-% in. long, spread- 

 ing or decurved, ciliate or bearded at the base, midrib of rachis excurrent. Spikelets 

 short, 3-4-fld., rachilla glabrous; gl. I and II coriaceous, 1-nerved, margins mem- 

 branous, I small, broadly oblong, apiculate ; II very broad, sometimes didymous 

 when spread open ; awn stout, subulate, incurved or recurved ; III and following 

 longer than II, very broadly ovate, subacute, glabrous ; palea broad, keels scaberulous. 

 Grain ovoid, rugose. Habit of ~E. flag ellif era. 



91. DINEBRA, Jacg. 



An annual leafy grass. Leaves flat. Spikelets 2-3-fld., small, crowded, 

 biseriate on one side of slender spreading or deHexed spikes that are 



