224 



distinct. Spikelets laterally compressed, oblong, obtuse, up to 



7 mm. by 2 mm., whitish green, or slightly tinged with purple ; 

 florets up to 12, very close ; rhachilla-joints clavate, at length 

 often very much thickened upwards, glabrous or minutely hairy. 

 Glumes subequal, ovate, subacute, up to 3 mm. long, subscarious, 

 1-nervecl, persistent. Valves imbricate, obliquely ovate in side 

 view, obtuse, entire, muticous, 2'5-3 mm. long, membranous and 

 whitish when young excepting the sometimes slightly purplish 

 upper half, at length indurated and yellowish below the middle, 

 silky pubescent all over the back in the hardening part, hairs 

 clavate-tipped ; nerves green, the lateral subpercurrent. Pales 

 much shorter than the valves, membranous, 2-keeled, folded back- 

 wards, rotundate-elliptic when flattened ; flaps very narrow ; keels 

 minutely serrate. Lodicules broad-cuneate. Anthers 075 mm. 

 long. Ovary glabrous ; styles long, with the top of the ovary 

 produced between them ; stigmas short, laterally exserted. Grain 

 tightly enclosed by the rigid valve and pale and deciduous with 

 them, elliptic-oblong, dorsally much compressed, concave-convex 

 (when dry), 1 mm. long, yellowish ; embryo elliptic in outline, 

 almost half as long as the grain ; hiliuii punctiform. 



Golis Range, Broclcman, 99, 101, 147. "Grows freely in the 

 valleys round Upper Sheikh and sparingly at Burao. One of the 

 principal grasses cut and brought in. An excellent feed ; grows 

 to 3 feet." — Appleton. 



Enneapogon mollis, Lehm. 



Without precise locality, Dralw-Brockman, 41. 



Vern. Aggan (Drake-Brockman). 



DlSTR. To the Sudan, Angola and South Africa. 



E. elegans, Stapf. — Syn. frappojihorum elegans. Nces ; Hook, f., 



Jbl. Brit. Ind. vii., 301. 



Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 175, 180. Without precise 



locality, Lort- Phillips. "A good feeding grass found in small 



quantities round Bohotle and Burao, but in large quantities in a 



valley above Upper Sheikhr~ApplHon. In the Haud, Thomson, 

 yZ b. 



DlSTR. To Abyssinia, the Deccan Peninsula and Burma. 



Aeluropus repens, Pari.— Syn. A. villosus, Trin. ex C. A. Mey ; 

 Hook, f., I.e. 334. 



Perry. 



mar 



grasses — one collected by trie 



torladus 



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(p. 20J), the other discovered in Italian Somali hind by Col. Appleton 

 and a near ally of a peculiar Socotran species :~ 



Andropogon (§ Arthrolophis) Bentii, Stapf, sp. nov. ; affinis 

 A. Kellert, Hack., et A. eyrtoclado, Stapf, ab atooque racemis 

 breyius pilosis, villis spiculis minime occulrantibus, spiculae 

 Besmlis valva inferiore (neutra) 3-nervi, snperiore eciliata, paleis 



ecihatis vel subeciliatis, ab A, cyrtodado praei.rea racemis 

 solitarns spiculis minoribus dirfert 



