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Hleusine. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 645 
niet Sarena straight ; rhachilla disarticulating at least 
the gin mes ; valves lanceolate, oblong in profile, 
=e at .. (1) indica. 
‘ne thick, rved ; rhachill tough 5 valves 
atiliguely rip in 1 Oat, obtu ... (2) coracana, 
1. E. indica (Gaertn. Fruct. i, sigh Me nual; culms ereet or 
ceniculate-erect, from a few inches to dit. “long, slender or aes 
fimbriate ; blades linear, long bape: an acute point, } to more 
than 1 ft. by 12-3 lin,, flat or folde d, sometimes flaccid, glabrous, 
nine sparingly hairy below, enooth spikes rather slender, es 
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ong, sessile, 2-14 i a terminal umbel, usually w h 1-2 
(rarely to 7) ) additional aie “3 i in. below it ; eae bel sane 
to villous at the base, otherwise glabrous, smooth; spikelets 
2~2 lin. long, 3-6-flowered, disarticulating a Hs the glumes and 
very tardily or tough between the valves; glumes and valves ovate 
(lanceolate- -oblong in profile), acute, the latter about 2 lin. long ; 
ers } lin. long; grain oblong; seed heart-shaped in cross section, 
clit tone dusk reddish-brown, obliquely striate; embryo small. 
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Iil. i, 203, t. 48, fig. 3; Kunth, Enum.i. 272 ; Suppl. 224, t. 16, 
9. 43 Trin, Spee. Beene Ic & Tis Nees, Bt ” Afr. Austr. 251; 
Steud, Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 211; Anderss. in sess” Reise Mossamb. Bot, 
oS Schweinf. in Bull. Her Boiss. ii, App. ii es 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 866. Sadaaaibe: indicus, eis Sp. Pl. 
Coast Rea 10N: Cape Div. ; common near Boe vee by the pees 
MacOwan, Herb. Aust..Afr., 1366! s andy roadside between Lansdown Roa 
Kenilworth, hi rsagt Dod, 2448! in g Dire near Claremont Station, Wolley py 
2383! Alban $ Graha nstown, MacOwan, 1357! Komgha Div, , bake of 
the Kei River, Dre 4 295 
Katanarr Ree Transvaal Johannesburg, E.S.C.4. Herb., 307! 
EasteRN REG Tembuland; Bazeia, a weed in yo Baur, 408! 
Natal nding Flats, Buchanan, 14! 88 Poles, Wood, 5996! from the coast 
sd gardens, Bucha rset ay without precise 
Ump 0, in neglected 
locality, Gora 694! Cooper, 3361! Delagoa Dees For 
Tropics of the Old World; introduced (?) in the New World. 
2. E. coracana (Gaertn. Fruct. i. 8, t. i. fig. 11); very like 
E. indica, but more robust, up to 5 ft. high ; spikelets more crowded, 
to as thick as a finger, often curved ; rhachilla tough ; glumes and 
E. spherosperma, Stokes, Bot, Mat, Med, i. 149. \ E. stricta, Rozh. 
