224 XXVIII GRAMINEA, [| Dactyloctenium 
53. DACTYLOCTENIUM Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. p. 
1029 (1809). 
Eleusine Gaertn., Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 1172, pro 
parte. 
1. D. egyptiacum Willd., J.c.; Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. p. 212 
(1854) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 868 (egyptiwm). 
Sierra LEonE.—Sept. 1853. No. 2939. 
AMBRIZ.—Nov. 1853. Nos. 2899, 28990. 
Loanpa.—An annual cespitose remarkably social grass, forming 
very elegant meadows everywhere in rather damp places ; culms some- 
times prostrate but generally erect or oblique, branched, spikes 1- to 7- 
digitate, greenish-yellow. Plentiful on grassy thicket-grown slopes 
between Conceigao and Boa Vista; Jan. 1859. No. 2911. Here and 
there in the Represa de Luiz Gomes ; March 1854. No. 7308. Nos 
7329, 7476 (no notes). 
Punceo ANDoNGO.—In meadows of the presidium ; Jan. 1857. No. 
2705. In meadows near Quilanga; May 1857. No. 2837. No. 2846 
(no notes). 
MossaMEDES.—1859. A fragment found with Eragrostis variegata 
Welw. (No. 2300). 
54. ELEUSINE Gaertn.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 
p. 1172, pro parte. 
1. E. indica Gaertn. Fruct. p. 8 (1788) ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. 
p. 211 (1854) ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 866. 
E. teatilis Welw. in Murr. Journ. Trav. & Nat. Hist. i. p. 31 
(1868), see also Apont. p. 541 (1859). 
Maper1ra.—tThinly grassed places in the island and even in the public 
squares in Funchal ; Aug. 1853. No. 2919. 
Srerra Leonr.—Sept. 1853. No. 2940. 
AMBRIZ.—Nov. 1853. No. 2892. 
IcoLo E Benco.—Short-grassed pastures between Quifandongo and 
Funda, in clayey-sandy places flooded in summer ; Dec. 1853. No. 7303. 
Loanpa.—May and June 1858. No. 7339). No. 7340 (no notes). 
GoLtunGo ALto.—The most plentiful grass in the district, known 
to the inhabitants as “ pé de galinha,” the most liked by cattle ofall the 
grasses of the district ; forms very green meadows everywhere in the 
rainy season. Rather damp pastures near Sange, Bango, etc. ; Dec. 
1854. No. 2988. Plentiful in sunny grassy places through the whole 
district and very polymorphic. Between N-dele and Cacarambola ; 
Feb. 1855. No. 2989. No. 7221 (no notes). 
Punco Anponco.—Plentiful in mountain meadows near Caghuy. 
No. 2769. Nos. 2841, 2856 (no notes). An annual (?) grass 2 to 4 ft. 
high, culms green when alive, a very shining golden-straw colour when 
dried. Local name, Balayas. CoL1. Carp. 1104. 
Cultivated form. 
E. coracana Gaertn., Zc. ; Steud., Zc.; Durand & Schinz, Zc. 
&. coracana var. Welw. in Murr,, lc., p. 30. #. Luco Welw. 
Apont. p. 591. 
Gotunco ALTO.—Native name Liicu or Luco. An annual culti- 
vated everywhere for making an African beer (Garapa) from the seeds. 
Grown at the river Luinha by Sr. Pereira ; Sange, Jun. 1855. No. 2949. 
Punco ANponGco.—Indigenous in mountain meadows near Caghuy 
