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Description : An annual grass. Stems 30-90 cm. high, erect, stout or slender, 

 simple or branched, soft. Leaves flat, rather broad, flaccid, acuminate, gla- 

 brous ; sheath compressed ; ligule a few hairs. Spikes few or many, scattered 

 or whorled, or opposite or alternate, suberect, 2 -7*5 cm. long, very many- 

 flowered. Spikelets 4-6 mm. long, 8-12 flowered, shining ; glumes small, 

 acute, glabrous. Involucral glumes broadly ovate, finely acuminate or 

 aristulate. Flowering glumes 2 mm. long, very broadly ovate, 3-nerved, keel 

 excurrent, lateral nerves ending in small teeth. Grain rugose, pericarp 

 caducous. 



Locality : Gujarat : Ahmedabad, compounds, lanes and banks, common 

 (Saxton and Sedgwick !) 



Distribution : Tropics of the Old World. 



4. Eleusine ilageHifera, Nees in Linneea xvi (J 842), 220 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 211 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 34, Fodd, Grass. N. Ind. 57, t. 37 ; Boiss Fl. 

 Or. v, 655 ; Hook. f. in F.B.i. vii, 294 ; Cke. ii, 1038. E. arabica, Hochst. ex 

 Steud. I.e. ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab' PI. 167 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bom. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. vii (1893), 377 ; Watt. Diet. Econ. Prod, iii, 241. 



Description : Cke.ii., 1038. 



Locality : Sind : Jacobabad (Bhide!) ; Mirpurkhas (Jhaveri !) ; Sanghar 

 (SabnisB889 !. A236 !) ; Umerkot, sand hills (Sabnis B1002 !, B1017 !); Sehwan 

 to Laki, foot of hills (Sabnis B616 !); Pad-Idan (Sabnis B511 !) ; Gharo 

 (Blatter & McCann D605 \\.—Khandesh : (Lisboa) .—Gujarat ; Bhuj Hill, Cutch 

 (Blatter 3746 !). Deccan : Poona (Lisboa). 



Distribution : Punjab, W. Peninsula, Afghanistan, N. Africa. 



5. Eleusine brevifolia, R. Br. in Wall. Ca f . No. 3815 ; Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii 



294; Achariyar S. Ind. Grass. (1921), 274. — Koeleria brevifolia, Spreng.. 

 Pugill. ii, 21. — K. lagopoides, Panz. ex Spreng. 1. c. — Dacty 'lis brevifolia, Koen. 

 ex Willd. Sp. Pi. I 410 {excl. syn.) ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 341.— D. cynostiroides , 

 Koen. ex Roth. Nov. Sp. 74 (non Linn.). — Poa brevifolia, Kunth Rev. Gram, 

 i, 111, Enum. PI. i, 324.— Aeluropus brevifolius, Nees ex Steud. Nora. Ed. 

 ii, i, 30. A. Icevis, Trin. Fund. Agrost, 143, t. 12.— A. pubescens, Steud. 

 Nom. 1. c. — Eragrostris brevifolia, Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiv, 51. — Triodia 

 cynosuroides, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i, 331. 



Description : An annual'grass. Stems creeping and spreading from the root, 

 ascending from a decumbent base, generally slender and small, sometimes 

 large and proliferously branched, leafy, 7-18 cm. long. Leaf-blade linear, 

 acute, with a sub-cordate or rounded base, 2-5 cm. long, 3-4 mm. broad ; sheath 

 compressed and glabrous ; ligule a very short membrane, ciliate at the margin 

 or obsolete, Spikes usually many, sessile and crowded in globose heads, 

 varying in diameter from 8-16 mm. Spikelets sessile, biseriate, ovate-oblong, 

 3-4 mm. long, 4-10-flowered. Involucral glumes membranous, ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate, shortly awned, glabrous, the lower shorter than the upper, 1-3- 

 nerved, the upper 3-5-nerved,,ai:d the nerves very close to the middle one in 

 the keel. Lower floral glume and the succeeding ones ovate, cuspidateiy 

 acuminate, 3-nerved, nerves villous below the middle and paleate. Pale 

 oblong, lanceolate, truncate and minutely 2-toothed, keels villous below the 

 middle. Anthers small. Lodicules small and cuneate. Styles long and slender. 

 Grain orbicular to ovate, concavo-convex, red-brown, and transversely rugose. 



Locality : S. M. Country : Ranibennur (Bhide !). 



Distribution : Coromandel and Carnatic coasts. 



93. Dinebra, Jacq. Fragm. (1809), 77, t. 121, f. 1 ; Cke. ii, 1039. 



Species about 10. — India, Ceylon, Afghanistan, westwards to the Mediter- 

 ranean and tropical Africa. 



Cooke describes one species: Dinebra arabica, which name has to cede to 

 Dinebra retroflexa, Panzer. 



1. Dinebra retroflexa, Panzer in Denkschr. Acad. Munch. (1814), 270, t. 12; 

 Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 557 ; Muschler Fl. Egypt i ( 1912), 106.— Cynosurus retroflexus, 

 Vahl Symb. ii, 20. — Dinebra arabica, Jacq. Fragm. (1809), 77 ; Beauvo Agrost. 

 98, t. 16, f . 2 (Dineba) ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 34 ; Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 55 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii (1893), 372 ; Hook. f. in F. B. I. 

 vii, 297 ; Prain Beng PL 1230; Watt. Diet. Econ. Prod, iii, 115; Cke. ii, 



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