The _spikelets_ are about 1/8 inch excluding the awns, shortly pedicelled, unilateral, biseriate, thin and slender, 1-flowered, pale or purple tinged, disarticulating above the two lower empty glumes, which persist on the rachis, generally 4-awned, very rarely 3 or 5; _awns_ are pale or purple, 1/8 to 5/16 inch; pedicel is short, angular, scaberulous with a few pilose hairs; _rachilla_ is produced but is shorter than the flowering glume. There are usually six _glumes_ in a spikelet and very rarely five or seven glumes; of these the first two _glumes_ are hyaline, empty, awnless; the third is flower-bearing and the rest empty, thinly coriaceous and awned. The _first glume_ is white or lightly purplish, small, about 1/16 inch long, lanceolate, finely acuminate, 1-nerved, and with scabrid keel. The _second glume_ is twice the first glume in length, oblong-lanceolate, finely acuminate, 1-nerved. The _third glume_ is broadly oblong, chartaceous, 3-nerved, bearded with long hairs along the margins from a little above the base, and with a tuft of hairs at the base and an awn at the apex; the palea is oblong, a little smaller than the glume, folded along the margins. There are three _stamens_ with pale yellow anthers. The _styles_ are white with purple _stigmas_. _Lodicules_ are narrowly cuneate. The _fourth_ and the _fifth glumes_ are small, epaleate, empty, oblong, cuneate, 3-nerved, awned. The _sixth glume_ is very small, cuneate, awned. _Distribution._--In the districts forming the Coromandel Coast and also Gangetic plains and Ceylon. 37. Eleusine, _Gaertn._ These are annual or perennial grasses. Leaves are long or short. The spikelets are sessile, 3 to 12 flowered, 2 to 3-seriate, secund, laterally compressed and forming digitate whorled or capitate spikes, not joined at the base; rachilla continuous between the flowering glumes. The glumes in a spikelet are few to many, keeled. The first two glumes are subequal or unequal, persistent; the first glume is 1-nerved and the second glume is 1- to 7-nerved. The flowering glumes are 3-nerved, paleate; palea is complicate; keels are strong, scabrid or ciliate. Lodicules are two, cuneate. Anthers are short. Styles distinct and short. Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose. KEY TO THE SPECIES. Spikelets pointing upward at an acute angle with the rachis of the spike. Spikes 1 to 5 inches long, digitate, erect. 1. E. indica. Spikes 1/6 to 1/4 inch or a little more, capitate, spreading. 2. E. brevifolia. Spikelets spreading at right angles with the rachis of the spike, spreading or erect. 3. E. aegyptiaca. =Eleusine indica, _Gaertn._= This is a tufted annual grass with short, erect, somewhat compressed, glabrous stems, 1 to 2 feet high. The _leaf-sheaths_ are compressed, distichous, ciliate. The _ligule_ is a ridge of hairs.