608 



Acrachne verticillata, W. and A. — Eleusine verticillata, 

 Boxb. I. e. p. 346. 



Spec. Chab. Culm erect, 1 — 4-feet: leaves bifarious, large, 

 and witli the sheaths sparingly hairy : spikes of the erect compound 

 panicle numerous, verticelled, expanded, linear: spikelets 8 — 12- 

 flowered : glumes subulate : lower valve terminating in a long 

 mucro : seeds oblong, wrinkled. 



Peninsula, in moist pastures. 



GENUS XXVIII. ELEUSIITE. 

 Triandvia Digcynta. Sex: Syst ; 



Derw. From Eleusis, one of the appellations of Ceres. 



Gbit. Chab. Spikes digitately fascicled, seldom 1 — 2 : spikelets 

 sessile, unilateral, 2 many-flowered : flowers distichous : glumes 2, 

 keeled, muticous, shorter than the flowers : lower one interior : 

 palese 2, muticous, lower one-keeled, upper 2-keeled: ovary 

 glabrous : stigmas plumose, hairs simple : scales 2, emargrnately 

 2-lobed, glabrous : caryopsis free, pericarp membranaceous, loosen- 

 ing : seed transversely wrinkled. 



(1) E. IiTDicA. fGcertn.j 



Ident. Goeitn. fig. I. p. 8. — Koxb. 1. c. p. 345. 



Syn. Cjrnosurus Indicus, Linn. — ^Panioum compressum, Forsk. 



Engram. Burm. Zeyl. t. 47, fig. I.— Trin. Ic. t. 71.— Lam. HI. 

 t. 48, fig. 3. 



Spec. Chae. — Eoot fibrous, csespitiferous : culm conipressed, 

 leafy, g to 2 -feet : sheaths hairy at the mouth : leaves flat, linear, 

 somewhat obtuse, here and there scattered with hairs, ox, altogether 

 glabrous : Hgula short, hairy : spikes straight, linear, somewhat in 

 whorls of four, one usually remote from the rest, rhachis narrow : 

 spikelets about 6-flowered : valves oblong, entire at the apex. 



Peninsula. Bengal. 



GENUS XXTX. DACTYLOCTENIUM. 



Triandria Dvl^yuia. Sex: Syst: 



Deriv. From Dactylos a finger, and JOm a comb, alluding to 

 the digitate spikes. 



Gen. Chab. Spikes digitately fascicled, very seldom solitary: 



