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spikelets unilateral, 2-maiiy-flo-wered, secund on the rhaohis, dis- 

 tichous : glumes 2, keeled and compressed, somewhat herbaceous, 

 shorter than the florets, upper one sharply cuspidate below the 

 apex : florets sub-membranaceous, lower valve' deeply keeled, 

 mucronate from the apex, 3-nerved, upper reflexed at the mar^n, 

 2-norved, shorter : scales 2, tnmoately 2 — 3-lobed : ovary, glabrous: 

 stigmas plumose with branched hairs : caryopsis free, utriculated, 

 separating into fragments : seed sub-globose, transversely wrinkled. 



(1) D. ^GTPiiACDM. (Bewwo.) 



Ident. Cynosurus segyptius, Linn. — Eleusine segyptiaca, Roxb. 

 T— E. cruciate. Lam. — ^D. mucronatum, Willd. 



Migrm. Eheede Mai. xii. t. 69.— Lam. lU. t. 48, fig 2.— Trim. 

 Ic. t. 69. 



Spec. Chak. Root fibrous and csespitose : culms ascending, 

 proliferous, branched, sometimes rooting, 3 — 12-inches : spikes 

 short, 2 — 4, scarcely 1-inch : rhachis terminated by a mucro : 

 spikelets imbricated, 8 — 5-flowered, awns of the glumes longer than 

 the spikelet. 



Common about road-sides. 



GENUS XXX. CYNODON. 

 Triandvla Dlgynla. Sex: Syt: 



Deriv. From Kmn a dog, and Odous a tooth. 



Gen. Chae. Spikes digitate, twin or racemose : spikelets uni- 

 lateral, somewhat 2-flowered: lower flower hermaphrodite, upper 

 reduced to an awn-shaped pedicel, sometimes none : glumes 2, 

 keeled, muticpus, a little unequal : upper (outer) a little larger : 

 valves 2, lower keeled, acute, muticous or shortly mucronate 

 beneath the apex, upper one 2-keeled at the back: styles 3, 

 terminal, stigmas plumose with simple hairs : scales 2, fleshy : 

 paryopsis free. 



(1) C. Dacxtlon. (Per S.J 



Ident. Pers. syn. I. 85. 



Syn. Tanicum dactylon, Linn. Roxb. I. c. p. 289. — Digitaria 

 stolonifera, Sohrad. — C. stellatus, Willd. 



Engrm. Engl. Bot. 12, t. 850. — Host. gram. II. t. 18. — Burm. 

 Ind. t. 10, fig. 2. 



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