The _leaf-blades_ are narrow-linear, as long as the stem, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs near the mouth, acuminate, base not contracted, 12 to 20 inches long and 1/8 to 1/6 inch broad. The _spikes_ are elongate, digitate, 2 to 7, 2 to 5 inches long, all in a terminal whorl and sometimes with one or two lower down, and with the axils glandular and hairy; the _rachis_ is slender and dorsally flattened. [Illustration: Fig. 206.--Eleusine indica. 1. A portion of the spike; 2. a spikelet; 3. flowering glumes and their palea with the rachis; 4 and 5. the first two glumes; 6 and 7. flowering glume and its palea; 8. the ovary, stamens and the lodicules; 9 and 10. grain.] The _spikelets_ are variable in size, 1/12 to 1/6 inch, 3 to 5, rarely 6-flowered, quite glabrous, biseriate, pointing upward at an acute angle with the rachis. All the glumes are more or less membranous. The _first glume_ is small, oblong-ovate or oblong, 1-nerved with a scabrid keel. The _second glume_ is twice the size of the first, ovate-oblong, 3-nerved, rarely 3- to 7-nerved, glabrous, shortly mucronate at the acute apex. The _third glume_ and the succeeding flowering glumes are larger than the second, ovate-oblong, subacute, 3-nerved and paleate; _palea_ is shorter than the glume, glabrous. _Stamens_ are three. _Lodicules_ are small and cuneate. The grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, broadly and shallowly grooved dorsally with concentric minute tubercled ridges covered with a loose pericarp. This grass is fairly common in somewhat wet places in the plains and low hills. _Distribution._--Throughout India and Ceylon. =Eleusine brevifolia, _Br._= This is an annual grass. Stems are creeping and spreading from the root, and ascending from a decumbent base, generally slender and small, but sometimes large and proliferously branched, leafy, 3 to 7 inches long. The _leaf-sheath_ is compressed and glabrous. The _ligule_ is a very short membrane, ciliate at the margin or obsolete. The _leaf-blade_ is linear, acute, with a subcordate or rounded base 1/2 to 2 inches long and 1/8 to 1/6 inch broad. The _spikes_ are usually many, sessile and crowded in globose heads, varying in diameter from 1/3 to 2/3 inch. [Illustration: Fig. 207.--Eleusine brevifolia. 1. A spikelet; 2 and 3. the first and the second glumes; 4 and 5. the third glume and its palea 6. lodicules, ovary and stamens.]