FLORA OF ADEN . 
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Graec. 45, t. 60; Engl. Bot. t. 840; Knapp Gram. Brit. t. 13; 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 236 ; Roxb. PL Ind. I, 289. 
Panicum lineare Burm. PL Ind. 25, t. 10, f. 2. 
Paspalum dactylon DC. FL Franc. Ill, 16. 
Paspalum praecox Walt. PL Carol. 75. 
Paspalum umbellatum Lam. Illustr. I, 177. 
Agrostis bermudiana Tussac ex Kunth 1. c. 259. 
Agrostis filiform is Koen. ex Kunth 1. c. 261. 
Agrostis linearis Retz. Obs. IY, 19. 
Agrostis stellata Willd. 5p. PL I, 376. 
Names : — Creeping Panic Grass, Bermuda Grass. 
Description : — Culms from a few inches to 1 foot long, slender, 
glabrous, smooth, many-noded, the lower internodes very short, 
enclosed, the upper 3-4 much longer, more or less exserted ; leaves 
usually conspicuously distichous on the barren shoots and at the base of 
the culms ; sheaths tight, glabrous or hairy, often bearded at the 
mouth ; ligule a very fine ciliate rim ; blades linear ; finely acute to 
pungent, 1^-6 inches by 1-1J lines, very rigid to flaccid, folded or 
convolute or flat, more or less glabrous or hairy, smooth below, 
scaberulous above. 
Spikes 2-6, straight, J-2J inches long; rhaehis pubescent at the 
base, keel and margins scabrid or the keel smooth; spikelets light 
green or purplish, |-1^ lines long; rhachilla produced, very slender, 
equalling | the length of the spikelet ; glumes lanceolate, acute to 
subulate-mucronate, the lower J-f lines long, the upper usually slightly 
longer, keels scabrid or smooth ; valve obliquely oblong to semi-ovate, 
subobtuse or minutely apiculate, about 1 line long, keel ciliate ; keels 
of palea scaberulous ; anthers oblong, J inch long. Grain ^ line long. 
Locality ; — Aden (Birdw.). 
Distribution : — Almost cosmopolitan. 
Uses: — Having great fattening and milk-producing qualities this 
plant is a very valuable fodder grass. The plant is also used medicinally 
and a cooling drink is said to Be prepared from the roots. 
14. Cliloris Sw. 
Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat or convolute. 
Spikes solitary or several, in terminal umbels or short racemes, 
erect or stellatelv spreading. Spikelets of 2-4 florets (1 only or rarely 
more fertilel, sessile, crowded, unilateral, 2'Seriate on a slender rhaehis ; 
rhachilla disarticulating above the involucral glumes, more or less 
