296 CLXXiii. GRAMiNK^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eleusine. 



E. radnlans, Sr. Prodr. 186. Dactyloctenium asgyptiacutn, Willd. Enum. 

 Sort. Berol. 1029 ; Beam. Agrost. 72, t. 15, f. 2 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 261, 

 8uppl.{\. 204: Steud. Syn. Gram. 211 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 235; Balz..^ 

 Gibs. Bomb. PI. 297 ; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 371 ; Aitch. Cat. Panjab PL 

 167; Miq. PL Ind. Bat. iii. 384; Boiss. PL Orient, v. 656; Griseb. FL 

 Brit. W. Ind. 540 ; Baher Fl. Maurit. 452. D. distachyum, Bq^'er Sort. 

 Mawrit. 370. D. Pigarei, Notar. in Ann. 8c. Nat. Ser.lll. ix. (1848) 325. 

 D. meridionale. Mam. Prodr. PI. Ind, Oce. 6. D. mucronatnm, Willd. I. c.\ 

 Trin. 8p. Grram. lo. t. 69 ; Steud.l.c; Wight Cat. n. 1761. D. prostratum, 

 Willd. L c. ; Steud. I. c. D. radulans, Beauv. Agrost. 72 ; Kunth 1. 1, c. c. 

 262, 204; Steud. I.e. Cynosnrus segyptius, Linn. 8p. PL 72. C. Cavara 

 & Macara, Hb. Mam. ex Wall. l. c. B. C. C. distachvus, Ruitl. ex Steud. 

 Nom. Ed. II. i. 465. Chloris jnucroaata, Mich. Fl. Am. Bor. i. 59. 

 Cenohrus aegyptius, Beauv. Agrost. 157. Khabdochloa niucronata, Beauv. 

 I. c. 84. jEgilops saccharinus, Walt. FL Carol, i. 249. — Rheede Hort. Mai. 

 xii. t. 69. 



Tliroughont the low country of India aud Bukma, to Malacca and Ceyion, — 

 DiSTHiB. Warm reeions of the OM World, introd. into tlie New. 



Stem erect, 6-18 in. h'gh, or prostrate sprending and rooting, often proUferonsly 

 branched at the thickened nodes. Leaves distichous, acute or acuminate, ciliate ; 

 sheaths compressed ; ligule 0. 8i>ikes solitary or 2-5, J-l in. long, all terminal, 

 stout, TKchis mucronate at the tip hy the thickened excurreut midrib. Spikelets 

 densely croivded, ^V~T!r '"■ 1°"=' 3-4-fld., glabrous ; glumes almost pungent ; I ovate, 

 acute; I[ broadly ovate, obliquely cuspidately awned, as are the following, cusps 

 recurved ; palea very broad, 2-fid, keels hispid. Grain globose, very rough, pericarp 

 evanescent. — Specimens in Herb. Kottler named " Cynosurus ciliaris, 0. distachyus, 

 nob, an C. (sgyptii, var. : — sandy shores of the Ocean," are somewhat intermediate 

 between eegyptiaca and arisiaia, having the foliage of the former and habit of the 

 latter. This and Wight's ii. 1761 b. " Dactt/loct. mucronatum, p. repsns = D. 

 prostratum, Willd.," are the same. 



6. E, arlstata; Ehrenl. ex Boiss. FL Or lent. y. 657; perennial, slender, 

 prostrate, proliferously branclied, leaves short glaucous, spikes very short 

 capitate, gl. II abruptly shortly awned. E. glancophylla, Munro ex 

 Benih. in Journ. lAnn. Soc. xix. (1881) 107. B. aoindica, Duthie Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 58, t. 36 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Mist. 8oc. vii. (1893) 

 377. Dactyloctenium glaucophylluni, Courb. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. IV. 

 xviii. (1862) 133. D. scindicum, Boiss. Biagn. Str. II. iv. 131, Fl. Orient. 

 I. c. 



The Pavjae, Rajpootana, Malwa, Scind, and Beitish Beluchistan. — 

 piSTBiB. Affghan., Arabia, Nubia. 



Stem smootli, stiff, widely spreading, rooting at the distant thickened woody 

 leafy nodes, and sendins up very slender branches 4^12 in. long ; internodes 2-4 in. 

 Leaves l-lj in., acuminate or punprent, mar^'ins oiliate with long tubercle-based 

 hairs ; basal sbeaths hairy ; lignle obsolete. Spikes 3 or more, i-^ in. long, spread- 

 ing or decurved, ciliate or bearded at the base, midrib of rachis excurrent. Spikelets 

 short, 3-4-fld., rachilla glabrous; gl. I aud II coriaceous, Inerved, margins mem- 

 branous, I small, broadly oblong, apiculate ; II very broad, sometimes didymous 

 when spread open ; awn stout, subulate, incurved or recurved ; III and following 

 longer than II, very broadly ovate, subacute, glabrous j palea broad, keels scaberulous. 

 &ra4it ovoid, rugose. — Habit of IE. fiagellifera, 



91. DXNEBRA, Jacq. 



Ati annual leafy grass. Leaves flat. Spilcelets 2-3-fld., sma;ll, crdvvded, 

 biseriate on one side of slender spreading or deflexed spikes that are 



