_Spikelets_ are sessile, biseriate, ovate-oblong, 1/8 to 1/6 inch long, 4- to 10-flowered. The _first two glumes_ are membranous, ovate-oblong, glabrous, acuminate and shortly awned, the _first glume_ is shorter than the second, 1- to 3-nerved, the _second glume_ is longer than the first, 3- to 5-nerved, and the nerves are very close to the middle one in the keel. The _third_ and the succeeding _glumes_ are ovate, cuspidately acuminate, 3-nerved, nerves villous below the middle and paleate; _palea_ is oblong, lanceolate, truncate and minutely 2-toothed, keels villous below the middle. _Anthers_ are small. _Lodicules_ are also small and cuneate. _Styles_ are long and slender. Grain is orbicular to ovate, concavo-convex, red-brown, and transversely rugose. This grass is usually found in somewhat damp situations all over the Presidency, though somewhat local in its distribution. _Distribution._--Sandy shores of the Coromandel and Carnatic coasts. [Illustration: Fig. 208.--Eleusine aegyptiaca.] =Eleusine aegyptiaca, _Desf._= This grass is an annual with erect or creeping branches. Stems are erect or prostrate, compressed, smooth, spreading and rooting at the nodes, 6 to 18 inches long. Nodes are thickened and sometimes proliferous. The _leaf-sheath_ is compressed and glabrous. The _ligule_ is short and membranous. The _leaf-blade_ is linear, tapering to a fine point, flat, glaucous, glabrous or hairy, 1 to 6 inches long and 1/12 to 1/6 inch, wide. [Illustration: Fig. 209.--Eleusine aegyptiaca. 1. Front and back views of a portion of spike; 2. a spikelet; 3 and 4. the first and the second glumes; 5 and 6. flowering glume and its palea; 7. ovary and anthers.] _Spikes_ are digitate, 2 to 6, 1/2 to 1-1/2 inches long. _Spikelets_ are flat, densely crowded on one side of the floral axis, spreading at right angles, 3- to 5-flowered, _glumes_ five to seven. The _first glume_ is ovate acute. The _second glume_ is equal to the first or slightly longer, broadly ovate, awned. The flowering _glumes_ are ovate, mucronate or awned, paleate; _palea_ is shorter than the glume, ovate-oblong, obtuse or 2-fid. _Anthers_ are small. Grain is reddish, rugose and sub-globose. This is a very common grass occurring as a weed in cultivated fields and in open places. It is a well-known fodder grass. _Distribution._--Throughout the plains in India and Ceylon. 38. Dinebra, _Jacq._