FLORA OF ADEN. 
89& 
Locality : — Above the coal-depots of the Messag. Marifc. 
(Schweinf.) ; Flag-staff on top of the Shum Shum Range and in a 
valley south-west of the Tower of Silence (Defl.) ; top of Shum Shum 
Range (Busse) ; without locality (Hooker, Thomson). 
Distribution \ — Canaries, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Abyssinia, 
Eritrea, S. Arabia, S. Persia, Sind, Punjab, Rajputana, 
15, Eleusine Gaertn. 
Annual or perennial ; leaves long, flat or folded, flaccid or firm. 
Spikelets, 3-1 2- flowered (flowers all perfect except the terminal), 
sessile, 2-3-seriate and secund, forming digitate capitate or whorled 
spikes laterally compressed, not jointed at the base. Rhachilla disarticu- 
lating above the glumes and between the valves, or tough, produced, 
sometimes terminating with a rudimentary valve. Florets hermaphrodite. 
Glumes 2, sub equal, persistent, obtuse or obscurely mucronate, membra- 
nous, strongly keeled, 3-5-nerved, the lateral nerves close to the keel, 
the lower shorter, with the keel crested. Valves very similar, 3-nerved 
near the base ; lateral nerves submarginal above, with 1-2 short addi- 
tional nerves, close to the keel. Paleae slightly shorter than the valves, 
2-keeled, keels winged. Lodicules 2, minute, cuneate, Stamens 3. 
Ovary glabrous, styles slender from a broadened base, distinct ; stigmas 
plumose, laterally exserted. 
Grain broadly-oblong to globose, broadly grooved ; pericarp loose, 
delicate, breaking up irregularly or almost circumscissile ; seed finely 
striate ; embryo suborbicular, basal ; hilum punctiform, basal. 
Species about 7. 
Distribution : — Tropical Africa and Asia ; one widely spread through 
the tropics. 
1. Eleusine aegyptiaca Desf. FI. Atlant. I, 85 ; Graham Cat. Bomb. 
PI. 235; Roxb. FI. Ind. I, 344; Wall. Cat. n. 3818; Griff. Notul. Ill, 
51, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, f. 79 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109 ; Benth. FI. 
Austral. VII, 615 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 34 ; Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 
56, t. 35 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. VII (1893), 374 ; 
Prain Beng. PI. 1229 ; Hook FI. Brit. Ind. VII, 295 ; Cooke FI. 
Bomb. Pres. II, 1038. 
Eleusine ciliata Rafin. in Desv. Journ. Bot. IV (1814), 273. 
Eleusine cruciata Lamk. Illustr. I, 203, t. 48, f. 2. 
Eleusine mucronata Stokes Mat. Med. I, 150 ; Lisboa in Journ. 
Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. VII (1893), 376. 
Eleusine pectinata Moench Meth. Suppl, 68. 
Eleusine prostrata Spreng. Syst. I, 350, 
