Botanical Name - Eleusine indica

----- Eleusine indica, Gaertner, F.B.I. V. 7. P. 293.

----- Annual grass appearing at the end of rains. Culms about 8 ft. erect, occasionally prostrate, smooth, glabrous, left-blade flat about 1 ft. long. narrow, taperingto an acute tip. Glabrous ; sheath flattened, keeled, white and succulent below. Inflorescence of 3-7 digitate spikes, radiating from the top of the flowering culms. Spikelets arranged on the under surface of the rhachis of the spikes and all point forward, overlapping one another, towards the tip. Spikelets many flowered, greyish green.

----- A scattered grass seen in the State in forest blanks, at the edges of carts tracts, foothpaths, and edges of forest and cultivation.