Eleusine.] GRAMINEZ. 1229 
2715. Trogon caprtatus Jaub. & Spach; F. B. I. vii. 285. 
ota Nagpur, Parasnath. 
ender, inna tufted grass. 
2716. Tasroco JAcQuEMonTi Stapf; F. B. I. vii, 287. 
agpur, Tributary States. 
A wh Se filiform, tufted grass, 
1111, Eleusine Gaertn. 
Annual or perennial grasses ; <niel long or short. Spikelets 
8-12-flowered ; flowers all a) except the terminal, sessile, 
2-3-seriate and secund, forming ie capitate, or onthe 
spikes, laterally compressed, not jointed at the base; rachilla 
continuous between the flowering glumes. Glwmes few or many, 
keeled ; I, and IT. shorter than the flowering glumes, aii or 
unequal, persistent; I. lanceolate; II. lanceolate, acute or acumi- 
nate, or broadly ovate, or didymous with a short, stout, reat 
_ awn; flowering glumes like the empty, tei Per compli- 
cate, strongly 2-keeled ; lodicules 2, cuneate; stamens 3; anthers 
Short; styles short, free; stigmas sle oo vaberilly exserted. 
Grain small, free; pericarp hyaline, loose or vanishing; seed 
rugose, 
Spikelets pointing forwards at an acute angle with the rachis of the 
spike :—_ 
Glumes I. and II. with entire tips :— 
Stems 1-2 feet high; grain oblong: wild indica 
— 2-5 feet high ; grain — cultivated Coracana 
and II, with notched verticillata 
“ean reat at right angles to ic Taikie of the spike......... egyptiaca, 
2717, Exeusine rmpica Gaertn.; F. I, i. 345; F. B. I, vii, 293; 
E. D. BE. 186. 
Tn all the provinces. 
An annual grass, with a soft, stout stem, 1-2 feet high. 
Hind. Mal-ankuri 
2718. Eveusive CorAcaNn wits ertn.; F. I. i, 8342; E. D. E. 170. 
all the provinces, cultivate 
An annual crop. Beng. alasas: eae Kodé. 
2719, irae VERTICILLATA Roxb.; F. I. i, 346; F. B. I. 
vii. 295; E. D, B. 190. 
Behar 
