1230 BENGAL PLANTS. [Eleusine. 
annual grass, with an erect, stout, or slender stem, 
1-3 feet high. 
2720. ExLeusine Gyptiaca Desf.; F. I. i. 344; F. B. I. vii. 295; 
KE. D. EB 
In all ting provinces. 
An erect or prostrate annual grass. Hind. Makra; 
Uriya Kakhuriya; Santal. Suntu-bukrui. 
1112. Dinebra Jacq. 
An annual, leafy grass; leaves flat. Spikelets 2-8-flowered, 
2-seriate, secund and imbricating on short, slender, spreading or 
defiexed spikes, collected in narrow, pyramidal racemes, not 
jointed at the base; rachilla slender, jointed at the base, produced 
beyond the flowering glumes and bearing an imperfect glume. 
Glwmes 4-5 ; I. and II. empty, persistent, much longer than III. 
and IV., lanceolate, awned, 1-nerved, keeled; II. one-fourth 
longer than I.; III. and IV. very small, broadly ovate, subacute, 
hyaline, 1-nerved; palea hyaline, shorter than the glume, linear- 
oblong, obtuse, keels finely ciliolate ; Jodicules 2, minute; stamens 
3; anthers minute, didymous; styles free, short; stigmas exserted 
at apex of . shortly penicillate. Grain narrow-ovoid, 
a G si 
2721 EBRA ARABICA ah F. B. T. vii, 297; B. D. Di 446. 
a calycina F’, I. i. 346. 
Western Behar 
An annual, sath, leafy grass; stems 1-3 feet high. 
1113. Oropetium Trin. 
A dwarf, densely ete — annual grass; leaves short, fili- 
spikelets very m , 1-flowered, half-immersed in the 
alternating, distichous a of the rachis of a simple, slender, 
curved, inarticulate spike, sessile, not articulate on the rachis; 
rachilla articulate at the base, bearded, not produced beyond the 
flowering glume. Glumes 3; I. very minute, hyaline, empty, Pe™ 
sistent; IT. linear-lanceolate, rigid, recurved in fruit, tip obtuse oF 
pagan: III. flowering, concealed by glume II., which closes 
eavity in which III. is hidden, sessile, oval, hyaline, 1-nerv 
tip scaberulous; callus very short, bearded with silky hairs ; plea 7 
as long as glume, keels coninclal slender, smooth ; lodicw 
very minute, obliquely cuneiform; stamens 3; anthers oblong q | 
