396 
FLO FA OF ADEN. 
Eleusine radulans Br. Prodr. 180. 
Dactyloctenium aegyptiacum Willd. Enum. Pi. Hort. Berol. 1029 ; 
Beauv. Agrost. 72, t. XV, f. 2 ; Kunth Enum. PL I, 261, Suppl. II, 
204 ; A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. II, 406 ; Steud. Syn. PL Glum. I, 211 ; 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 235; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. El. 297; Thw. 
Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 371 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panj. PL 167 ; Miq. El. Ind. Bat. 
Ill, 384 ; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 41 ; Boiss. El. Or. V, 
556 ; Griseb. El. Brit. W. Ind. 540 ; Baker El. Maurit. 452 ; Scbweinf. 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II, Append. II, 34 ; Durand & Schinz Consp. EL 
Afr. V, 868; Hal. Consp. El. Graec. 111 , 337 ; Coss. & Dur. El. 
Alg. Glum. 85 ; Batt. & Trab. EL Alg. II, 188; Stapf. in This.-Dyer 
E1. Cap. VII, 646 ; Krause in Engl. Bot. Jalirb. XXXV, 25 ; Durand 
& Barr. EL Libyc. Prodr. (1910), 261. 
Dactyloctenium distachyum Bojer Hort. Maurit. 370. 
Dactyloctenium Eigarei De Not. Catal. Sem. Hort. Genuens. 1847, 
and in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, IX (1848), 325 ; Steud. 1. c. 
Dactyloctenium meridionale Ham. Prodr. PL Ind. Occ. 6. 
Dactyloctenium mucronatum Willd. Enum. PL Hort. BeroL 1029 ; 
Trim Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 69 ; Nees El. Afr. Austral. 150; Steud. Syn. PL 
Glum. 212 ; Anderss. in Peters Reise Mossamb. Bot. 555 ; Wight Cat. 
n. 1761. 
Dactyloctenium prostratum Willd. 1. c.; Steud. 1. c. 
Dactyloctenium radulans Beauv. Agrost. 72; Kunth 1. 1. c. c. 262, 
204; Steud. 1. c. 
Cynosurus aegyptius Linn. Sp. Pl. 72. 
Cynosurus Cavara Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 1. c. B. 
Cynosurus Macara Herb. Ham. 1. c. C. 
Cynosurus distachyus Rottl. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, I, 465. 
Chloris mucronata Mich. EL Am. Bor. I, 59. 
Cenchrus aegyptius Beauv. Agrost. 157. 
Rbabdocbloa mucronata Beauv. Agrost. 84. 
Aegilops saccharinus Walt. El. Carol. I, 249. 
Arabic name Areija. 
Description : — Annual of variable habit, 1-1^-feet high; stems 
sometimes prostrate, rooting from the proliferously branched nodes, 
geniculately ascending, compressed, glabrous smooth. Leaves linear, 
1-5 by inch, tapering to a fine point, flat, glaucous, glabrous or 
hairy or bispidly ciliate with bulbous -based hairs; ligule a slightly 
ciliolate line. 
Spikes 2-6, digitately radiating, ^-1 ^-inches long ; rhachis 
trigonous or dorsally flattened, rigid, often excurrent into a pungent 
