FLOBA OF ADEN . 
375 
Spikes several, radiating, 3-6 inches long ; rhachis very slender, 
trigonous, with numerous long cilia. Spikelets erect, solitary or 2-nate, 
inch long, narrowly lanceolate, acute, subsilky. Glumes normally 4 
lower involucral glume minute, ovate, acute (rarely absent) ; upper 
involucral glume lanceolate, acute, membranous ; lower floral glume 
similar to the upper involucral glume, 3-5-nerved ; upper floral glume 
chartaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, nearly equal to the lower. 
Locality . — Aden (Bird wood). 
Distribution : — Abyssinia, Arabia, Baluchistan, Sind, Gujarat. 
7 . Eriocliloa H. B. & K. 
Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat, lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, aristulate, secund on the spiciform branches 
of a raceme or panicle, the base thickened and articulate on the thickened 
apex of the short pedicel. Glumes 3 ; lower involucral glume absent ; 
upper involucral glume subequal to the lower floral glume ; upper 
floral glume paleate, rather shorter than the lower, apiculate, hardening 
in fruit. Lodicules truncate. Stamens 3 ; anthers linear. Styles 2, 
free ; stigmas plumose, subapically exserted. 
Grain oblong, free, between the hardened glume and the palea. 
Species perhaps 5. 
Distribution : — Tropical. 
Eriocliloa poly stacliy a H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. I (1815) 95, 
f. 31 ; Lam. Encycl. t. 909 ; Kunth Enum. PI. I, 72, Suppl. 53 ; Trim. 
Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104 ; Duthie Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 41, Fodd. Grass. N„ 
Ind. 2 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. VII, 20 ; Trim. FI. Ceyl. V, 126 ; Woodr. 
in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. XIII (1901) 433 ; Prain Beng. PI. 1 183 ; 
Cooke FI. Bomb. Pres. II, 944. 
Eriochloa annulata Kunth Revis. Gram. I, 30, Enum. I, 73 ; 
Aitchis. CaKPanj. PI. 158 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 2 ; Benth. FI. 
Hongk. 409, Austral. VII, 463. 
Eriochloa punctata Ham. Prodr. FI. Ind. Occ. 5 ; Kunth Enum. I, 
72 ; IViiq. FI. Ind. Bat. II T, 441 ; Benth. FI. Austral. VII, 462. 
Eriochloa sundaica Miq. 1. c. 606. 
Eriochloa succincta Kunth Enum. I, 73. 
Helopus annulatus Nees in Mart. FI. Bras. II, 17; Wight Cat. 
n. 1605 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8750. 
Helopus laevis Trin. ex Spreng. Neue Entdeck. II, 49, f. 4. 
Helopus pilosus Trin. Fund. Agrost. 104, f. 4. 
Helopus acrotrichus Steud. Syn. Gram. 100. 
