Oct. 15, 1929. J Revision of the Flora of the Bombay Presidency 761 



Hall berg 5483 !).— Konkan : Wada Range, Thana Dist. (Ryan 685!), Juvem 

 (McCann 4264 !); Vetora (Sabnis 33592 !); Mulgaum (McCann A208 !) ; Versova 

 (McCann A205 !) ; Uran (Hallberg & McCann 5135 !) ; Marine Lines, Bombay 

 Isl. (Hallberg A206 !) ; very common in Bombay 1st. (McCann !) ; Ratnagiri 

 (Woodrow 41). — Deccan : Poona (Jacquemont 399, 486), Agricultural College 

 garden (Garade 665!); Bopodi, near Poona (Gammie 15310!); Manmad, 

 riverbed (Blatter A211 !) ; Khandala to Campoli (McCann A209!) ; Khandala 

 (Gammie 15395 !, McCann !) ; Igatpuri (Blatter & Hallberg 5195 !, McCann !) ; 

 Sharanpur, near Nasik (Woodrow).— 5. M. Country: Yelvigi, 1,800 ft., 

 rainfall 25-30 inches (Sedgwick 2002 !) ; Gokak (Shevade !) ; Badami (Wood- 

 row 12).— Kanara : Dundeli, 1,800 ft., rainfall 100 inches (Sedgwick & Bell 

 4215 !); Halyal (Talbot 2306 !) ; Karwar, sea shore and near sea (Talbot 1298 !). 

 Distribution : Spread throughout tropical and subtropical regions. 



2. Dactyloctenium scindicum, Boiss Diagn. Ser. 2, fasc. 4 (1859), 131, Fl. Or. 

 v (1881) 557.— Eleusine scindica, Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. (1888), 58; 

 Lisboa in Journ. Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii (1893), 377 .—Dactyloctenium 

 glaucophyllum, Courb. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iv, xviii (1862), 133.- Eleusine 

 glaucophylla, Munro ex Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix (1881), 107.— ii. 

 aristata, Ehrenb. ex Boiss. Fl. Or. v (1881), 557 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 296- 

 Cke. ii, 1039. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1039 (under Eleusine aristata). 



Locality: Sind : Karachi, (Burns!), seeds grown, taken from a bird's crop 

 (Ticehurst !) ; Sanghar (Sabnis B893!) ; Indus Delta (Blatter & McCann 

 D602 !) ; Mirpur Sakro (Blatter & McCann D603 !); Gharo (Blatter & McCann 

 D604 !); Mundgiro (Stocks 637). -Gujarat : Ahmedabad (Woodrow), dry open 

 hills (Sedgwick !); Sevalia (Chibber \)\— Konkan : Ratnagiri (Woodrow). 



Distribution : Punjab, Rajputana, W. Peninsula, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, 

 Arabia, Nubia. 



92. Eleusine, Gaertn. Fruct.,& Sem. i (1788), 7, pi. 1, f. 11 ; Cke. ii, 1037 

 (Partim) . 



Annual or perennial ; leaves long, flat or folded, flaccid or firm ; spikes in 

 interrupted spikes or the upper or all in a terminal umbel, straight, subereCt, 

 spreading or deflexed ; spikelets glabrous, 3-6-flowered, laterally compressed, 

 densely imbricate, alternately biseriate, unilateral, sessile on a flattened rhachis, 

 the uppermost terminal, perfect ; rhachilla disarticulating above the involucral 

 glumes and between the flowering glumes, or tough, produced, sometimes 

 terminating with a rudimentary glume. Flowers bisexual. Involucral glumes 

 2, subequal, persistent, obtuse or obscurely mucronate, membranous, strongly 

 keeled, 3-5 nerved, the lateral nerves close to the keel, the lower shorter, with 

 the keel crested . Flowering glumes very similar, 3-nerved near the base ; 

 lateral nerves submarginal above, with 1-2 short additional nerves close to the 

 keel. Pales slightly shorter than the glumes, 2-keeled, keels winged. Lodi- 

 cules 2, minute, cuneate. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous ; styles slender from a 

 broadened base, distinct ; stigmas plumose, laterally exserted. Grain broadly 

 oblong to globose, broadly grooved ; pericarp loose, delicate, breaking up 

 irregularly or almost circumscissile ; seed finely striate ; embryo suborbicular, 

 basal ; hilum punctiform, basal. 



Species 6. In the warm regions of the E. hemisphere, 1 widely spread 

 through the tropics. 



Of the 5 species mentioned by Cook, 2 have been transferred to Dacty- 

 loctenium above, viz. E. aegyptiaca and E. aristata. We add 2 species new to 

 the Presidency : E. verticillata and E. brevifolia. 



A. Erect. 



1. Spikes digitate 



1. Spikes slender, nearly glabrous at base 



Seed oblong, obtusely trigonous ... 1. E. indica. 



2. Spikes stout, often incurved pubescent 



at base, seed globose ... ..* 2. E coracana. 



II. Spikes scattered or whorled ... ... 3. E. verticillata. 



B. Prostrate or creeping and rooting 



I. Ligule hairy. Spikes digitate ... ... 4. E. flagellifera, 



II. Ligule obsolete. Heads of spikes globose... 5. E. brevifolia 



