JSleusine.} olxxiii. graminb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 295 



creeping and rooting, leaves small lanceolate acuminate, spikes very many 

 short crowded in globose heads, flg. gls. and palea villously bearded. 

 E. oligostachya, Herb. Wight, n. 3332. E . Walliohii, Munro mss. Koeleria 

 brevifolia, Spreng. PugilL ii. 21. K. lagopoides, Panz. ex Spreng. I.e. 

 Dactylis brevifolia, Koen. ex Willd. Sp. PI. i. 410 {excl. 8yn.) ; Bomb. FL 

 Ind: i. 341 ; ?8teud. 8yn. Gram. 298. D. cyaosnroides, Koen. ex Roth. Nov. 

 Sp. 74 (non Linn.). D. geniculata, Boxb. Jo. Pict. ined. t. 346 {nonBmm.). 

 Poa brevifolia, Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. Ill, Enum. PI. i. 324. P. lagopoides, 

 Nees ex Wight Cat. n. 1790. ^Eluropus brevifolius, Nees ex Steud. Nam. 

 Ed. II. i. 30; Herb. Wight Prop. 1792. M. l»vis, Trin. Fund: Agrost. 

 143, t. 12. M. pubescens, Steud. Norn. I. c. Bragrostis brevifolia, Benth. 

 in Hook. Ic. PI. -^iv. 5i. Triodia cyuosuroides, Spreng. Sysf. Veg. i. 331. 

 Gyperns Ooracana, Herb. Heyne ex Wall. I. c. 



Sandy shores of the Cokomandel and Carnatio coasts, Seyne, &c. 



Annual. Stems many, spreading from the root, 2-4 in. long, stout or slender. 

 Leaves 1-2 in., flaccid or rigid, lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate ; ligule obsolete. 

 Meads of spikes Cflite globose, 4-f in. disim., of many (rarely few) 4-10-fld. ovate 

 sessile spikelets ^\ in. long ; gl. I and 11 subequal, margins hyaline, broadly ovate, 

 acuminate or cuspidate, glabrous ; I 1-3-nerved; It 3-5-nerved, nerves close to the 

 middle line ; III and following very broadly ovate, cuspidat^ly acuminate, 3-nerved, 

 keel and nerves and keels of ovate palea all villous below the middle. Anthers 

 minute. Styles long, slender. Orain orbicular. — See remarks under ASlwro^pus. 



^ .4. E. verticillata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 346 ; annual, erect, leaves flat, 

 spikes scattered or wborled very many-fld., glumes acute glabrous. Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 211; Aitchis. Gut. Punjab PI. 168; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 

 34, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 58, t. 70 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. tloc. 

 vii. (1893) 377 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 616. E. raoemosa, Heyne in Both. 

 Ifov. Sp. 80. Leptochloi ? i-acemosa & verticillata, Eunth Bevis. Gram. i. 

 91, Enum. PI. i. 272 ; Steud. I. c. Aeiachne eleusiuoides, Wight & Am. in 

 Wight Cat. n. 1760 ; Nees ex Steud. I. c. A. verticillata, lAndl. Inirod. 

 Nat. Syst. Ed. II. 381.— Eragrostidi affine. Wall. Cat. n. 3882, ex Wight 

 Gat. I.e. 



Plainsof India ; in pasture ground, Moxbiirgh, &o. Kashmie, Clarke. — Disteib. 

 Trop. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Stem 1-3 ft., stout or slender, simple or branched, soft. Leaves rather broad, 

 flaccid, acuminate, glabrous ; sheath compressed ; ligule a few hairs. Spikes few or 

 many, ,|-3 in. long, in tiers or whorls, or opposite or alternate, suberect; rachis 

 slender. Spikelets ^J in., 8-12fld., shining; glumes small; I and 1[ broadly 

 ovate, finely acuminate or aristulate ; flg. gls. Jj in;, very broadly ovate, 3-nerved, 

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

 caducous. 



II. Dacttloctbnium, Willd. (G-en.). Spikelets erect, at right angles 

 to the rachis of the spike. Glume II short, suborbicular, abruptly shortly 

 awned. 



■-■ .:h. Sa aeg'yptiaca, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 85; annual, leaves flat, spikes 

 digitate, glumes rigid cuspidate glabrous. Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 344 : Wall. Oat. 

 n. 3818 ; Griff. Notul. iii 61, Jo. Fl. Asiat. t. 139, f. 79 ; Trim. Gat. CM. 

 PI. 109 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 616 ; Bnthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 34, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 66, t. 35. E. ciliata, Bafin. in Besv. Journ. Bot. iv. (1814) 

 273. E. cruciata, iamfc. IWMsir. i. 203, t. 48, f. 2. E. mucronata, Stokes 

 Mat. Med., i. 150 ; lAsboa in Jou/rn. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1893) ,376. 

 E. pectinata, Moench Meth. Suppl. 68. E. prostrata, Spreng. Syst. i; 350. 



