216 



Between Gildessa and Zeila, Robecchi. 

 DlSTR. Endemic. 



T. barbata, Nees ; Hook, f ., I.e. 272. 

 Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 250. 

 DlSTR. To Nubia and the Pan jab. 



Polypogon monspeliensis, Desf. ; Hook, f., I.e. 245 ; Duthie, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 50.— Syn. P.fugax, Duthie, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 51. 



Without precise locality, Lort-Phillips. 



DlSTR. Throughout the Mediterranean region and continental 

 India, southwards to East Africa. Introduced into most other 

 warm parts of the world. 



Phragmites communis, Trin. ; Hook, f., I.e. 303 ; Duthie, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 60. 



Without precise locality, Lort-Phillips. 

 DlSTR. Almost cosmopolitan. 



The specimen (barren) probably represents var. isiacus, which 

 Dr. Riva collected on the Dana River in Abyssinian Somaliland 

 (Chiovenda, I.e. vii., 77). 



Aristida adscensionis, L. ; Hook., Fl. Brit. Ind. vii., 225.— Syn. 



A adscensionis, var. abyssinica, Engl., Yeget. Somaliland, in Site. 



Ber. Preuss. Ak. Wiss, 1904, 50 (reprint). A. depressa, Retz ; 



Duthie, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 47. A. Hystrix, Duihie, 111. t. 30, 

 non Linn. 



Daraas, Cole. Ahl Mountains, HildebrancU (according to 

 Engler). 



var. aethiopica, Stapf in Hook, f ., I.e. 226. 



Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 145 ; without precise locality, 

 Lort-Phillips. "Grows freely at Bohotle, Burao and Upper 

 Sheikh on good ground ; the stem is H-2 ft. long. It is con- 

 sidered a good feeding grass."— Appleton. 



DlSTR. (of the species). All warm countries. 



Sta,2)f 



Berbera 



/ 



DlSTR. Through South Persia to Bengal and Central India. 



A. somalensis, Stapf, sp. nov. ; affinis A. vestitae, Thunb.. sed 



dimensiombus glumarum et arista haud cum valva articulata 

 distincta. 



Perennial, densely caespitose, light green. Culms up to 1 m. 

 long, erect, simple, about 4-noded, with the uppermost internode 

 finally by far the longest, wiry, glabrous, smooth. Leaf-sheaths 

 tight smooth, scarcely striate, glabrous, the lowest bearded at the 

 mouth ; hgule a fringe of short hairs ; blade convolute-setaceous, 

 up to 20 cm. long, up to 2\5 mm. broad when expanded, rigid, 

 curved, glabrous, smooth below, scabernlous above and along the 



margins. 



wide 



tracted 



to 



15 cm. long, the longest undivided for 5-6 cm., then sparin 



