1919. ] Notes on the Vegetation of Seistan. 281 
Loc.—Lutak, No. 80. 
Local name.—Riz 52). 
Distrib.—Throughout all warm countries. 
Used as fodder for cattle. Grows with unusual luxuri- 
ance in the southern part of (irrigated) Seistan. 
9. Phragmites, Trin. 
12. P. ? communis, Trin. Fl. Br. Ind. vii, 303; Boiss. 
Fl. Or. v, 563; Musch. FI. Egypt, i, 115 
Loc.—Lab-i Baring, Nos. 25 and 62 ; alt. 1,600’. 
Local name.—Nai L. 
This plant is intermediate between the European P. com- 
munis, Trin, of which it has the habit and inflorescence, and the 
Indian P. Karka of which it has the short third flowering 
glume. Curious dwarfish plants were found at the edge of a 
stream of salt water. 
In its large form it covers hundreds of square miles at the 
edge of the Hamun. The fruits borne aloft by the long silky 
hairs of the glumes blow all over the country and get entangled 
with other plants, giving them a fluffy appearance. 
The Sayyad tribe uses the reeds for making houses and 
give the young shoots to their cattle and donkeys as ‘fodder. 
The Gaodar tribe weave mats of the split stems. 
10. jee Trin. 
18. B®. laevis, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 143, t. 12. 
i, villosus, Trin. . part). Fl. Br. Ind. vii, 333 and 334. 
4h. littoralis, Willd. Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 594. 
Loc.—Hurmuk, Perso-Baluch- Beit Frontier, No. 2; 
alt. 2 pa 0’ 
Distrib.—Mediterranean region, Arabia, Central Asia, and 
borders of i dia 
In a small irrigated garden. 
14. 4. villosus, Trin. Fl. Br. Ind. vii, 334. 
Ai, villosus var. repens, Boiss. Fl. Or. v, 594. 
4i, repens, Desf. Musch. ras Egypt, i, 129. 
Loc.—Lab-i-Baring, Nos. and 60: and in the dried 
river basin between Lutak al Girdi, No. 83; alt. 1,600 
1,700’. 
Local name.—Bino 
Distrib.—Punjab, Coca, Ceylon, Afghanistan, westward 
to the Mediterranean and the Caspian region. 
Forms small flat rosettes on dry gravel (see pp. “ait fall 
In patches at the edge of small saline streams in soil c 
with free salts. It sometimes grows in small tufts dafitoatsy 
