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longer than the glume, straight ; callus minutely bearded, pale glabrous, keels 

 scabrid. Anthers 1*5 mm. long ; second floral glume with a male flower, like 

 the preceding, but glabrous, 2 mm. long, awn 2 mm. long or less ; vth and vith 

 glume rudimentary, cuneate in profile, empty, awnless. 



Locality : Deccan : Poona (Burns !).— See also Mann in Bull. 77, p. 72 of 

 Dept. Agric. Bombay. 



Distribution : S.-and tropical Africa. 



91. Dactvloctenium, Willd Enum. PI. (1809), 1029. 



Annual or perennial ; leaves flat, subfiaccid ; spikes in umbels of 2-6, 

 erect or stellately spreading ; tips of the rhachis barren, mucroniform, 

 usually curved. Spikelets 3-5-flowered, laterally compressed, densely imbri- 

 cate, biseriate, sessile, unilateral on a flattened rhachis, the uppermost 

 reduced ; rhachilla tardily disarticulating above the empty glumes, tough 

 between the flowering glumes. Flowers bisexual, the uppermost rudimentary. 

 Involucral glumes 2, unequal, strongly keeled, the lower ovate, acute, thin, 

 persistent, the upper elliptic-oblong in profile, obtuse, mucronate or awned, 

 firm, deciduous. Flowering glumes ovate, subacuminate, 3-nerved, mucronate 

 or awned, deciduous with the grains. Pales about as long as the flowering 

 glumes, 2-keeled, subpersistent. Lodicules 2, cuneate, minute. Stamens 3. 

 Ovary glabrous; styles distinct, very long, subterminally exserted. Grain 

 subglobose, slightly laterally compressed, not grooved or hollowed, rugose or 

 punctate ; pericarp very delicate, irregularly breaking away ; embryo scarcely 

 equalling \ the length of the grain ; hilum basal, punctiform. 



1. Annual ; grain subglobose ... ... 1. D. aegyptium. 



2. Perennial ; grain ovoid ... ... 2. D. sendicum. 



1. Dactylocteniiim aegyptium, Richt. PI. Europ. i (1889), 68; Muschler Fl. 

 Egypt i (1912), 108 (nomen attributum Wildenowio per error.). — Cynosurus 

 aegyptius, Linn. Sp. PI. 72. — Dactylocteniiim aegyptiacum, Willd. Enum. PI. 

 (1809), 1029 ; Beauv. Agrost. 72, t. 15, f. 2 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i, 261, Suppl. ii. 

 204 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 211 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 235 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 297; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PL 167; Miq. Fl Ind. Bat. iii, 384 ; 

 Boiss. FL Or. v, 556 ; Griseb. Fl Brit. W. Ind. 540 ; Baker Fl. Maurit. 452.— 

 Eleusine aegyptiaca, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i (1798), 85; Roxb. Fl Ind. i, 344 ; 

 Griff. Notul. iii, 51, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, f . 79 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii, 615 ; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 34, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 56, t. 35; Hook. f. in 

 F.B.I, vii, 295; Lisboa in Journ. Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii (1893), 374; 

 Prain Beng. PI. 1229 ; Cke. iii, 1038; Achariyar S. Ind. Grass. (1921), 276; 

 Haines Bot. Bihar & Orissa (1924), 970.— E. ciliata, Rafin. in Desv. Journ. 

 Bot. iv (1814), 273.— E. cruciata, Lamk. lllustr. i, 203, t. 48, f. 2.—E. mucro- 

 nata, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. i. 150 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii 

 (1893), 376.— E. pectinata, Moench Meth. Suppl. 68.— E. prostrata, Spreng. 

 Syst. i, 350. — E. radulans t R. Br. Prodr. 186. — Dactyloctenium distachyum, 

 Bojer Hort. Maurit. 370.— D. Figarei, DeNot. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iii, ix 

 (1848), 325.— D.meridionale, Ham. Prodr. PL Ind. Occ. 6.— D. mucronatnm, 

 Wild. 1. c. ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 69.— D. prostratum, Willd. 1. c— D. radu- 

 lans, Beauv. Agrost. 72 ; Kunth 11. cc. 262, 204. — Cynosurus distachyus, 

 Rottl. ex Steud. Norn. ed. ii, i, 465. — Lhloris mucronata, Mich. FL Am. Bor. i, 

 59. — Cenchrus aegyptius. Beauv. Agrost. 157 '.— Rhabdochloa mucronata, 

 Beauv. 1. c.—Aegilops saccharinus, Walt. Fl. Carol, i, 249.— Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. xii, t. 69. 



Vern. Names: Gandhi (Sind) ; Anchi, Manchi (Kaira) ; Tagar sammi 

 (Dharwar) ; Hakki kalin hullu (Karnatik). 



Description : Cke. ii, 1038 (under Eleusine aeygptiaca). 



Locality : Sind: Ghulamalla, garden (Blatter & McCann D599 !) ; Tatta 

 (Blatter & McCann D600!); Indus Delta (Blatter & McCann D601 !) ; 

 Karachi (Bhide !) ; Mirpurkhas (Bhide !, Sabnis B1170 !) ; Umerkot (Sabnis 

 B1001 !) ; Hyderabad, cultivated fields (Sabnis B50 !) ; Sukkar, cultivated 

 fields (Sabnis B540 !) ; Nasarpur (Sabnis B1138 !, B1059 !) ; Sanghar (Sabnis 

 B888 !).— Gujarat : Sumarasar, Cutch (Blatter 3759 !) ; Perim Island, Gulf of 

 Cambay (Blatter 3818!); Bhuj Hill, Cutch (Blatter 8551 \).-Khandesh : 

 Muravad, Tapti bank (Blatter & Hallberg 5164 !) ; Bor, Bori River (Blatter & 



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