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branched ; branchlets flexuose or straight, filiform, like the 

 branches scabrid ; pedicels 1-10 mm. long. Spikelets yellowish 

 or brownish, 12-14 mm. long. Glumes scarious, rounded at the 

 back, linear-acute, with a long fine point, 1-nerved, the lower 

 lanceolate, 9-12 mm. long, flattened out 3 mm. broad, upper linear, 

 15-18 mm. long, 2 mm. wide. Valve linear produced into a 

 twisted scaberulous beak, 16-18 mm. long (of which 8-10 mm. go 

 to the beak), smooth below the beak ; callus 1 mm. long ; awn 

 continuous with the valve, bristles divaricate, the lateral 25-30 mm., 

 the middle 35-40 mm. long. Palea elliptic, subtruncate, 15 mm. 

 long. Lodi cities obovate-oblong, 2 mm. long, finely nerved. 

 Anthers purple, 6 mm. long. 



Golis Range, Drake-Brockmnn, 10, 124, 127 ; without precise 

 locality, Lort-Phillips. 



Vern. Saddeh Eli (Drake-Brockman). 



A. Kelleri, Hack, in Mem. Herb. Boiss, No. 20, p. S : Kngl. 

 Veget. Somaliland in Sitz. Ber. Preuss. Ak. Wiss., 1904, 41 

 (reprint). 



Hand, Thomson, also Riva according to Engler. 



Distr. Somaliland (Ogaden, Keller). 



A. papposa, Trin. & Ritpr. 



Without precise locality, Drake-Brock man, 37, 39 ; Haud, 

 Thomson, 92 a. 



Vern. Mardiceidleh (Drake-Broekman). 



DlSTR. From Abyssinia through the Sudan to the west coast 

 and the Cape Verd Islands ; also in Gaboon and Loanda. 



A. hirtigluma, Steud. 



Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 149. 



Distr. From Abyssinia and Egypt to the Panjab. 



A. plumosa, £., var. brachypoda, Trin. — Syn. A. brachypoda, 

 Tausch. ; Engl. I.e. 50. For A. j^lumosa, see Hook, f., I.e. 228 ; 

 Duthie, Fodd. Grass. X. Ind., 47. 



Ahl Mountains, Hildebrandt. 



Distr. (of the species). From North Africa and Nubia to 

 Western Tibet. 



Perotis latifolia, Ait. ; Hook, f., Fl. Br. Ind. vii., 98 ; Duthie, 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind., 22. 



Without precise locality, Lort-Phillips. 



Distr. Throughout Tropical Africa and Asia ;} also in South 

 Africa. 



Tragus racemosus, All. ; Hook, f., I.e. vii., 97 ; Duthie, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind., 22, 111. t. 14. 



Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 163. 



Distr. Most warm countries. 



T. paucispina, Hack. 



Without precise locality, Lort-Phillips. 



