2 j6 Graminece. \Eieusine~ 



much larger spikelets. Ferguson describes it as being remarkable for 

 its long-awned spikes, which come out in tufts of 12-20, and move with 

 the least wind. 



3. C. montana, Roxb. Hort. Bens;. 82 (1814), Fl. Ind. i. 329. 

 C. decora, Thw. Enum. 371 (excl. syn. C. barbatd). C. P. 958. 

 Var. decora, Trim. Cat. 109. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 292. 



Annual (?) ; stems 6-18 in., densely tufted, with slender root- 

 fibres, erect or ascending from a geniculate base, leafy below, 

 simple or branching upwards, lower internodes short, upper 

 long, slender, naked or sheathed up to the spikes ; 1. 3-6 in.,, 

 lower short, complicate, keeled, upper longer, very narrow,, 

 flat, smooth, lower sheaths short, open, upper closed, or upper- 

 most spathiform, mouth sometimes ciliate, ligule obscure ;. 

 spikes 2-6, connate at the base, erect, i-2| in. long, rhachis 

 very slender, scaberulous and pilose, tomentose below, 

 rhachilla very slender, shorter than the fig. glume, bearing 



3 small obcordate turgid long-awned imperfect glumes; 

 glume I ovate, acuminate, II much longer, linear-oblong, tip 

 2-lobed, shortly awned, III T V in. long, ovate-oblong tip 

 minutely 2-toothed, margins hirsutely ciliate, dorsally quite 

 glabrous, awn \~\ in., pale. 



Var. glauca, Hook. f. 



Stems 4-6 in., sheathed up to the spikes; 1. all very short, 

 complicate, keeled, keel sometimes winged, glaucous; spikes 

 l-i in. 



Hot drier parts of the Island, common. Var. glauca, Jaffna, abundant 

 (Trimen). Spikelets pale straw-coloured. 



India from the Gangetic Plain southwards. 



A very variable grass in India. 



58. ELEUSINS. Gaertn. 

 Annual or perennial grasses; 1. various; spikelets small, 

 3-10-fld., sessile, inarticulate at the base, 2-8-seriate, secund 

 and closely imbricate on the under surface of alt, digitate, or 

 whorled, rarely capitate spikes, strongly laterally compressed, 

 rhachilla not or very shortly produced between the glumes,, 

 but not beyond them; glumes 5-12, keel muticous, cuspidate 

 or shortly awned, I and II shorter than the fig., empty, per- 

 sistent, I 1 -veined, II 1-7-veined, fig. glumes gibbously ovate,, 

 acute, obtuse or shortly awned, tip entire or 2-toothed,. 

 3-veined, callus o, palea complicate, keels scabrid or ciliate; 

 lodicules 2, very minute; anth. short; styles short, free, stigmas 

 slender, laterally exserted ; grain small, pericarp loose or 

 evanescent, seed rugose. — Sp. few ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



