FLORA OF ADEN . 
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Panicum Tenerife Br. Prodr., 189 ; Kunth Enum. PL I, 98, Suppl. 
75. 
Panicum villosum Presl Gram, et Cyp. Sic. 18. 
Sacckarum Tenerife Linn, f. Suppl. 106, Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 51, t. 
* 34 (excl. syn.) ; Biv. Bern. Sfcirp. Sic. Bar. IV, 5, fc. 1 ; Sibth. FI. Graec. 
I, t. 53 (excl. Anal.). 
Agrostis plumosa Ten. FI. Nap. Prodr. Suppl. I, 59. 
Description : — Perennial ; stems many from a woody rootstock, 
geniculate below, slender, rigid. Leaves 1J-3 by j 1 ^-^ inch, narrowly 
linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, convolute, rigid, glabrous ; sheaths 
glabrous ; ligule a narrow softly hairy ridge. 
Inflorescence of slender erect panicles 2J-4J inches long ; branch- 
lets and pedicels capillary. Spikeiets up to inch long, clothed with 
silky hairs. Glumes 3 (rarely 4) ; involucral glume minute or obsolete ; 
upper in volucral glume | inch long, ovate, acute, densely silky; lower 
floral glume ^ inch long, ovate, acute, apiculate, paleate, the palea 
narrowly oblong, subobtuse, hyaline ; upper floral glume T V inch long, 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, shining ; palea as long as the glume, 
oblong-lanceolate, subacute. Anthers tV inch long, narrowly linear. 
Stigmas yjy inch long, exserted, sessile or nearly so, plumose. 
Fruits : — November (Schweinf.). 
Locality : — Basaltic lava above the coal-depots of the Messag. Marit. 
(Schweinf.) ; plain of Maala (Defl.) ; great valley between Steamer 
Point and town (Marchesetti) ; Without locality (Edgew., Hook., 
Thomson). 
Distribution : — Sicily, Canaries, Cape Verd Islands, N. Africa, Arabia, 
Sind, Punjab, W. peninsula of India. 
5. Panicum Linn. 
Annual or perennial grasses of various habit. Leaves broad or 
narrow ; ligules usually reduced to a ciliate rim or a fringe of hairs 
(rarely a distinct membrane) or 0. 
Inflorescence various. Spikeiets small, 1-2-flowered, terete or 
dorsally or laterally compressed, solitary or 2-nate, often secund, ovoid 
or oblong, articulate at the base and deciduous, rarely awned. Glumes 4 ; 
involucral glumes empty ; the lower the smallest (sometimes minute) 
and fewest-nerved ; upper involucral glume usually equal or almost 
equal to the lower floral glume, sometimes cuspidate, 5-13-nervod ; 
lower floral glume equalling the upper or longer, more or less resem- 
bling the upper involucral glume, usually neuter, paleate or not ; upper 
floral glume coriaceous to crustaceous, sometimes shortly stipitale, 
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