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PLANTS OF NORTHERN GUJARAT. 
666. Eleusine verticillata Roxb. F. B. I. VII, 295 ; Prain, Beng. 
PL 1229. 
Compounds, lanes and banks, Ahmedabad. Common. Flowers early. 
It appears to be able to develop on the minimum of rainfall, as it was 
in the 1915 monsoon very conspicuous in August. 
607. Eleusine aegyptiaca Desf. F. B. I. V II, 295 j FI. Bomb. II, 
1038 
Abundant everywhere. 
Varies from a d pauperated form with one or two spikelets, to a luxuriant form 
with ten or twelve full spikes. 
608. Eleusine aristata Ehrenb. F. B. I. VII, 296; FI. Bomb. II, 
1039. 
Waste and sandy land an I fields, Ahmedabad. Frequent. Flowers 
monsoon. 
341. Pinebra Jacq. 
609. SMnebra arabica Jacq. F. B. I. VII, 297 ; FI. Bomb. II, 1039. 
Fields. Not common. 
342. I.eptocllloa Bealiv. 
610. Leptochloa filiformis Roem. & Schult. F. B. I VII, 298; 
Prain, Beng. PL 1225. 
Victoria Gardens, Ahmedabad. Only once seen. An alien. 
L . polgstac/iya Benth. recorded in Journal of the Bomb. N. H. Soc., 
XXII I (June 1914). 116, was not preserved and may have been this 
species. 
343- Orjza Linn. 
611. Oryza sativa Linn. F. B. I. VII, 92; FL Bomb. 11, 1 042. 
A long awned wild rice is common in waterholes and still water, and 
is probably a well established escape of the long awned coarse variety 
known locally as “vari ”, which is grown extensively in inferior lands, 
especially where the water is deep and is not transplanted. 
344. Elytrophorus Beany. 
612. Elytropltorus articulatus Bcauv. F. B. I. VII, 306 ; Fl. 
Bomb. II, 1044. 
Bice fields and tank's, ap} earing after the crop i6 removed and the 
watei has dried. 
