FLORA OF ADEN. 
a fine point, 3-6 inches by 1-2 lines, usually involute, somewhat stiff 
and spreading, glabrous, or with scattered fine long hairs, scaberulous. 
Panicle spike-like, more or less lobed or interrupted, dense to very 
dense, 2-6 inches long; axis scab rid ; branches ad pressed, usually all 
very short or the lowest up to 1 inch long, divided from the base ; 
pedicels very short ; spikelets crowded, ovate, strongly compressed, 
1 to almost 2 lines long, loosely 6-1 2-flowered, pallid, sometimes purplish ; 
rhachilla breaking up ; glumes oblong-lanceolate, acute, §■ to almost 
i line long, 1 -nerved, keel scabrid ; valves oblong in profile, sub truncate 
and mucronulate, spreading, about ^ line long, thin, side-nerves promi- 
nent, keel scabrid ; palese equal to the valves and falling with therr. ; 
keels of palea very long and rigidly ciliate ; anthers -J-J line long. 
Grain elongate-ovoid, J line long, brown. 
Locality : — Aden (Anders., Hildebrandt, Birdw.). 
Distribution : — Common throughout tropical Africa and America, and 
in N. India. 
Note : — This is an exceedingly variable plant. Anderson's specimens 
from Aden are only about 1J inches high. 
2. Eragrostis major Host. Gram. Austr. IY, 14, t. 22 ; Hook. FI. 
Brit. Ind. VII, 320 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. Pres. II, 1026 ; Trim. FI. Ceyh 
V, 297. 
Eragrostis flexuosa Steud. Sym Gram. 266 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. 
Ind. 37. 
Eragrostis megastachya Hort. BeroL I, 187 ; Kunth* Enum. PI. I, 
333 ; Reichb. Ic. FI. Germ. t. 91; Wight Cat. n. 1778 ; Thwaites 
Enum. PI. Zeyl. 373; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 109; Aitchis. Cat. Panj. 
PI. 169; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 38, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 63, t. 75 ; 
Lisboa in Journ Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. VII (1893), 382; Ledeb. FI. 
Ross. IV, 382 ; Boiss. FI. Or. Y, 580. 
Eragrostis multiflora Aschers. ex Boiss. FI. Or. V, 580. 
Eragrostis poaloides Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, I (1830) 
404. 
Eragrostis vulgaris var, megastachya Coss. & Dur. FI* Alger. 148. 
Poa cilianensis All. FI. Pedem. II, 246, t. 91, f. 2. 
Poa elegans Herb. Wight and Herb. Plamilt. ex Walk Cat. n, 3828 
€.D. 
Poa eragrostis Cav. Ic. I, 63, t. 92 ; Sibth. FI. Graec. t 73. 
Poa flexuosa Roxb. FI. Ind. I, 339. 
Poa multiflora Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. 21. 
Poa polymorpha Koen. ex Wall. Cat. n. 3828 A. 
Poa Roxburghiana Schult. Mant. II, 315. 
