FLORA OF ADFN. 
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Locality Plain of Maala (Defl.) ; Goldmore Valley, above the coal- 
depofc of the Messag. Marit., rocky and sandy watercourses (Sehweinf.) . 
Distribution'. — Egypt, Sinai, Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan. 
Note : — “ Aristis elongatis afhnis A. Jiirtiylumce sed glumse non 
hirtse et inferior longitudine superiorem superans quod in aliis speciebus 
non occurrit.” Boiss. he. 
5. Aristida liirtiglunia Steud. Nomen. Bot. ed. 2, I (1840) 131 
et Syn. PI. Glum. I, 144; Trin. & Bupr. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. 
6, V (1842) 171 ; Walp. Ann. Bot. Ill, 750 ; Boiss. El. Or. V, 496 ; 
Sehweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 298 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panj. PI. 164 ; Duthie 
Grass. N. W. Ind. 26, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 47 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. 
VII, 227 ; Cooke, FI. Bomb. Pres. II, 1009. 
Aristida ciliata Steud. & Hochst. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, I, 131 
(non Besf.). 
Aristida decorata Steud. Syn. Gram. 421. 
Aristida pogonoptila Boiss. FI. Or. V, 496. 
Aristida Schimperi Hochst. & Steud. ex Steud. he. 143. 
Arthratherum ciliatum Nees in Linnsea VII (1832) 287 ; FI. Afr. 
Austr. I, 182. 
Arthratherum elatum Boiss. Biag. PI. Or. ser. 2, IV, 128. 
Arthrantherum hirtiglume Jaub. & Spach 111. PI. Or. IV, 52. 
Arthrantherum pogonoptilum Jaub. & Spach l.c. 56. 
Arthrantherum Schimperi Nees. FI. Afr. Austr. 178. 
j Description \ — Perennial ; stems tufted, 1-2 feet high, smooth 
glabrous, terete, shining ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-6 inches long, 
reaching fa inch broad when opened out, convolute, filiform with 
capillary tips ; sheaths quite glabrous except for a few long hairs at the 
mouth, close ; ligule a very narrow densely ciliate membrane. 
Panicle slender ; branches short, erect, capillary. Spikelets pale 
green or straw-coloured, linear-lanceolate. Lower involucral glume 
J inch long, linear-oblong, acute, scarious ; upper involucral glume a 
little longer, but similar ; floral glume slightly muricate ; callus about 
fa inch long, pointed, shortly villous ; column of awn inch long, 
plumose with long slender hairs articulated on the glume ; middle 
branch 1J inches long or more, plumose in the lower half with long 
delicate hairs ; lateral branches very slender, hair-like, about \ inch long, 
not plumose. 
Locality : — Top of Shum Shum Kange (Busse). 
Distribution Tunis, Upper Egypt, Sinai, Syria, Nubia, Abyssinia, 
Eritrea, Highlands of Somaliland, Arabia, Sind, Punjab. 
