224 XXVIII. GRAMINE^. [DactljloCte7UUitl 



53. DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd. Eimm. PI. Hoi-t. Berol. p. 

 1029 (1809). 



Elemine Gaertn., Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 1172, pro 

 parte. 



1. D. aegyptiacum Willd., I.e. ; Steud. 8yii. PI. Gram. p. 212 

 (1854); Durand k, Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 868 {cegyptium). 



SiKRKA Leone,— Sept. 1853. No. 2939. 



Ambkiz.— Nov. 1853. Nos. 2899, 28996. 



Lo.\NDA. — An annual csspitose remarkably social grass, forming 

 very elegant meadows everywhere in rather damp places ; culms some- 

 times prostrate but generally erect or oblique, branched, spikes 1- to 7- 

 digitate, greenish-yellow. Plentiful on grassy thicket-grown slopes 

 between Concei^ao and Boa Vista ; Jan. 1 859. No. 2911. Here and 

 there in the Represa de Luiz Gomes ; March 1854. No. 7308. Nos 

 7329, 7476 (no notes). 



PuN(iO Andongo. — In meadows of the prsesidium ; Jan. 1857. No. 

 2705. In meadows near Quilanga ; May 1857. No. 2837- No. 2846 

 (no notes). 



MossAMEDKS. — 1859. A fragment found with Eragrosttn rari(:(j<it<i. 

 Welw. (No. 2300). 



54. ELEUSINE Gaertn. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 

 p. 1172, pro parte. 



1. E. indica Gaertn. Fruct. p. 8 (1788) ; Steud. Syn. PI. Gram, 

 p. 211 (1854) ; Durand k Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 866. 



E. textilis Welw. in Murr. Journ. Trav. t\: Nat. Hist. i. p. 31 

 (1868), see also Apont. p. 541 (1859). 



Madeira. — Thinly grassed places in the island and even in the public 

 squares in Funchal ; Aug. 1853. No. 2919. 



Sierra Leone.— Sept. 1853. No. 2940. 



AMirniz.— Nov. 1853. No. 2892. 



Icoi.o E Bengo. — Short-grassed pastures between Quifandongo and 

 Funda, in clayey -sandy places flooded in summer : Dec. 1853. No. 7303- 



LOANDA.— May and June 1858. No. 7339^. No. 7340 (no notes). 



GoLUNGo Alto. — The most plentiful grass in the district, known 

 to the inhabitants as " pe de galinha," the most liked by cattle of all the 

 grasses of the district ; forms very green meadows everywhere in the 

 rainy season. Rather damp pastures near Sange, Bango, etc. ; Dec. 

 1854. No. 2988. Plentiful in sunny grassy places through the whole 

 district and very polymorphic. Between N-dele and Cacarambola ; 

 Feb. 1855. No. 2989. No. 7221 (no notes). 



PiiNGO Andongo.— Plentiful in mountain meadows near Caghuy. 

 No. 2769. Nos. 2841, 2856 (no notes). An annual (?) grass 2 to 4 ft. 

 high, culms green when alive, a very shining golden-straw colour when 

 dried. Local name, Balayas. Coj.l. Carp. 1104. 



Cultivated form. 



E. CORACANA Gaertn., I.e. ; Steud., I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e. 



E. coracaua var. Welw. in Mun"., l-c, p. 30. E. Luco Welw. 

 Apont. p. 591. 



GoLUN(;o Alto. — Native name Liicu or Luco. An annual culti- 

 vated everywhere for making an African beer (Garapa) from the seeds. 

 Grown at the river Luinha by Sr. Pereira ; Sange, Jun. 1855. No. 2949. 



PuNGO Andongo.— Indigenous in mountain meadows near Caghuy 



