506 RECORDS OF THE BOTANICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. 



8. E. multiflora Hochst. in Flora XXIV (1841) I. Intel!. 20 nomen ; 

 et in A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. II, 412. 



Habitat : II. Above Menacha, near Kahil, 2,500 m. (S. 1462 !). 

 Fr. : Feb. 1889 (S.). 

 Distrib. : Abyssinia, Arabia. 



9. E. aristata Elirenb. ex Boiss. Fl. Or. V, 557. 



Habitat : II. Jedda (Zohrab 166 !) ; Shukra (S. 71 !) ; Aggara near 

 Hodjela, 600 m., in maize fields (S. 1174 !). 



Fr. : Jan. 1889 (S.), Mar. 1881 (S.). 



Distrib. : Widely spread along the Red Sea within the tropics. 



Observ. : " Dactyloctenium glaucophyllum ■, Courbon in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 ser. 4, v, 18, (1862) p. 133, has the nodes densely and long pilose, its 

 stem ' climbing ', etc, and can hardly have been the above species. " 

 (C. B. Clarke).' 



10. E. Tocussa Fre^en. in Mus. Senckenb. II (1837) 141. 

 Habitat : II. Wady Djara (Ehrenb. 227 !). 



III. Lokham near Mokalla, 60 m. (Lunt 78 !). 

 Distrib. : Abyssinia, Arabia. 

 Observ. : Cultivated as food for cattle (Lunt). 

 Vern. name : Dolchn (Lunt). 



45. Dactyloctenium Willd. 



1. D. aegyptiacum Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. (1809) 102S. 



Habitat : II. Liht (Ehrenb. 231 !) ; Wady Djara (Ehrenb. 228 !) ; 

 Wolledje, Jebel Bura (S. 1928 !) ; Jebel Bura, 600 m. (S. 250) ; Jedda 

 (Zohrab 219 !) ; Aggara near Hodjela, 600 m. (S. 1024) ; Regma near 

 Hodjela, 900 m. (S. 1929) ; Wady Fatimah near Mecca (Schimp. 801 !) ; 

 Wady Fatimah (Fischer 130 !). 



Fl. : Feb. 1837 (Fischer). Dec. 1888 (S.), Jan.-Feb. 1889 (S.). 



Fr. : Jan. 1889 (S.), Feb. 1836 (Schimp.), Feb. 1837 (Fischer), Dec. 

 1888 (S.), Jan.-Feb. 1889 (S.). 



Distrib. : Widely spread throughout the tropics. 



Vern. name : Kerssi (S.). 



46. Leptochloa Beauv. 



1. L. uiiiflora Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. II, 409. 

 Habitat : II. Ussil, 1,400 m. (S. 1348). 

 Distrib. : Abyssinia, Arabia. 



%. L. obtusifolia Hochst. in Flora XXXVIII (1855) 203. 

 Habitat : II. Hille, Jebel Bura (S. 495 !). 

 Fr. : Jan. 1889 (S.). 

 Distrib. : Abyssinia, Arabia. 



