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British Somaliland. Cattle and sheep eat it greedily ; but it is 

 dangerous for horses, causing intense irritation of the bladder and 

 kidneys if eaten in large quantities." — Apple ton. 



' Vern. Jaddoho, Dojo (Robecchi) ; Saddeh ho (Drake- 

 Brockman). 



DiSTR. Nubia to the Panjab. 



This is the plant which was described by Boissier as D. scindi- 

 cum,£rom specimens collected by Stocks in the Indus Delta, 

 and it is probably also identical with the grass enumerated 

 by Chiovenda (I.e. vii., 6) as D. aristatum, and described as 

 forming turf in the Ogaden country. Whether it is the original 

 D. aristatum of Link, Hort. Berol. i. 59, is doubtful, and can only 

 be decided by comparison with Link's original. Of the specimens 

 distributed by Schweinfurth as D. aristatum, and enumerated as 

 such in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii., App. ii., 35, the Shugra plant 

 (No. 71) is D. glaucophyUum^ while the Arkiko specimen (No. 158) 

 belongs to another species, evidently an annual with llaccid leaves 

 and very small anthers (0'4-O5 mm.). We have this other species 

 also from the Nubian Coast (at about 21° N. lat., Bent) ; the 

 Dalak Archipelago (Steudner, 1050) ; and Socotra (Balfour, 42 

 and (59). Steudner's plant was also distributed as D. aristatum, 

 and in any case it agrees well with Link's description. 



eng 



Without 



Vern. Garrgorr (Drake-Brockman). See "Garra gorro" for 

 Sporobolus Brockmanii. 



DiSTR. Tropical Arabia to Abyssinia. 



Leptochloa obtusiflora, Hochst.; Hook, f., I.e. 



44 Principally grows in the valleys above Upper Sheikh from 

 whence it is cut and brought in. It grows to about 3 feet and is 

 an excellent feed." — Appleton. Without precise locality, Lort- 

 Phillips. 



DiSTR. Abyssinia, tropical Arabia ; also in India (introduced ?) # 



spicuii 



Staiif, sp. nov. ; affinis L. obtusijlorae 



aequaliter pubescentibus diversa. 



Perennial, densely tufted, Culms slender, geniculate at the 

 base, 15-25 cm. high, 3-1-noded, internodes exserted, glabrous, 

 smooth, the uppermost by far the longest. Leaves glauc 



per 



sistent ; ligule short, hyaline ; blades convolute in the bud, at 

 length flat, linear, long attenuated into an acute point, those of the 

 barren shoots up to 10 cm. by 2 mm., of the culms usually much 

 shorter and spreading, with long fine hairs near the base, other- 

 wise glabrous, smooth, midrib broad and white on the upper side, 

 primary nerves 5-7, prominent above, with 1-6 finer ones alter- 

 nating'with them. Racemes spiciform, compact, subdistichous, 



seated aloner a slender common 



racemes 



up to 7, subsessile, up to 10 cm. by 6 mm., with up to 20 spikelets ; 

 rhachis slightly wavy, asperulous ; pedicels extremely short, but 





