250 



CHINA. 



[ Graminece. 



confertissimis, semine subgloboso subtiliter ruguloso. Gcertn. de Fruct. 1. 8. t. \.f. 11. 

 Kunth, En. 1. p. 273. Trin. Ic. Gr. t. 70. Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. p. 342; (ed. Wall.) ].p. 343. 



— Isjetti-pullu. Rheed. Hort. Mai. 12. t. 78. — 13, stricta ; spicis strictis E. stricta. Roxb. 



I. c. p. 343; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 344. — y, pumila ; vix digitalis. N. ab E. in Herb. Royle, 

 n. 369 (ex parte), 



Hab. Ad Macao et in insulis adjacentibus ; Millett ; G. H. Vachell, n. " H." 



Simillima prsecedenti, e qua, praater characteres adnotatos et habitum proprium parum differt. Glurna 

 superior quandoque dorso 5-nervis ; etiam valvula inferior 5-nervis occurrit. 



24. DACTYLOCTENIUM. P. de Bcauv. 

 1. D. mucronatum. Willd. En. 2. p. 1029. N. ab E. Agr. Bras. p. 436, (cum synony- 

 mia completa). — Eleusine iEgyptiaca. Roxb. Fl. Ind. \. p. 344; (ed. Wall.) I. p. 345.— 

 a, JEgyptiacum — D. iEgyptiacum. Kunth, En. I. p. 261 — (3, repens ; valde ciliatum, 



spicis 1-3 erectis vel patentibus, rhachi inter spiculas patenti-ciliata D. prostratum. 



Willd. En. 2. p. 1029. Kunth, En. hp. 261. Link, Hort. Ber. 1. p. 59 Eleusine pros- 

 tata. Spr. Syst. Veg. 1. p. 350. 



Hab. Ad Macao, in insula Lappas, et in aliis vicinis ; Millett ; G. H. Vachell, n. 73. b. (ex parte). 



D. aristatum, Link, non minus ac reliquaa hujusce est varietas. Restat igitur solum D. radulans, 

 P. Beauv., seu Eleusine radulans, Brown, jure suo ut species propria vindicandum. 



[We have before us, from Mr. Millett, two forms of this plant, both belonging to a. ; one is smaller than 

 the other, with roots from the joints, and the leaves and sheaths shortly hairy and ciliated ; this may prove 

 to be D. aristatum, Link. The other is more robust, the ascending portion of the culm being about a foot 

 high, and the spikes almost an inch and a half long, and thick in proportion ; the leaves are very scabrous 

 on the margin, and more or less bearded at the mouth of the sheath, but are otherwise, as well as the sheath 

 itself, glabrous : the lower part of the culm forms a very remarkable branched prostrate densely leafy rhizoma 

 one to two feet in length. The spikelets are sometimes pubescent, sometimes glabrous and shining : but all 

 these variations, as well as var. /S, seem to depend much on the localities in which they are found, and not to 

 be permanent.] 



'25. CHLORIS. Linn. 



I. C. barbala; culmo ramoso compresso, foliis acutis basi etmargine infero vaginisque 

 collo stride pilosis, spicis digitatis (4-15), spiculis imbricatis, gluma superiore lanceolata 

 Integra nervo mucronulata flosculum hermaphroditum dimidiato-obovatum superne vil- 

 loso-ciliatum aequante, flosculis neutris binis truncatis setigeris glabris, setis omnibus 

 gequalibus. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 1. p. 200. N. ab E. Agr. Bras. ]). 421. (cum synon.) 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. I; p. 329; (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 331. Jacq. Eel. Gr. hp. 8. Kunth, En. 1. p. 

 264. — Andropogon barbatus. Linn. — Konda pulla. Rheed. Hort. Mai. 12. t. 51. f. 3. 



Hab. Prope Macao ; Millett. 



