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FLOUA OF ADEN . 
Paspalum punctatum Fluegge Gram. Monog. 127 (Paspalus) ; Trin. 
Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 155. 
Paspalum annulatum Fluegge 1. c. 133 (Paspalus) ; Trin. 1. c. t. 133. 
Paspalum succinctum Trin. Diss. II, 19, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 156. 
Milium Carar Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8750 F. 
Milium Languchinia Herb. Ham. 1. c, n. 8750 G. 
Milium polystachyum Spreng. Syst. I, 251. 
Milium punctatum Linn. Amoen. Acad. V, 392, Sp. PI. 91 ; Br. 
Prodr. 188. 
Milium orixense Roxb. Ic. ined. n. 818. 
Milium ramosum Retz. Obs. VI, 22; Roxb. FL Ind. I, 316; Griff. 
Notub III, 15, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, f. 60. 
Piptatherum punctatum Beauv. Agrost. 18, t. 5, f, 1. 
Piptatherum confine Schult. Mant. II, 184 (ex Kuntli). 
Piptatherum annulatum Raddi Agrost. Bras. 30. 
Agrostis punctata Lamk. Encycl. I, 58. 
Oedipacbne punctata Link Enum. Hort. Berol. I, 51 . 
Description : — Perennial, densely tufted, 2-5 feet high ; rootstock 
short, creeping ; stems leafy, ascending from a creeping base, stout or 
slender, simple or branched, glabrous except the nodes. Leaves 3-8 by 
inch, linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; sheaths 
glabrous ; ligule a villous ridge. 
Panicles 2-5 inches long ; peduncles long or short ; rhachis slender, 
angular, smooth ; branches of panicle (spikes) alternate, 1-2 inches 
long, suberect, angular. Spikelets silvery, inch long, loosely 
imbricate, shortly pedicellate, distichous, solitary or 2-nate, elliptic- 
lanceolate, acuminate. Lower involucral glume 0 ; upper involucral 
glume oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obscurely 3-nerved, silky-hairy, 
membranous ; lower floral glume similar to the upper involucral glume; 
upper floral glume much shorter than the lower, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 
apiculate, thinly coriaceous, pale, shining ; palea oblong with incurved 
margins. Anthers linear. 
Grain oblong, free within the hardened glume and palea. 
Locality .- — Shaikh Othman, on cultivated ground (Schweinf,). 
Distribution : — Most hot countries. 
8. Aristida Linn. 
Annual or more often perennial, tufted, usually with more or less wiry 
culms ; blades narrow, usually convolute ; ligule usually a line of very 
short hairs. 
