898 
FLORA OF ADEN. 
Pappophorum phleoides Trin. in Spreng. Neue Entdeck. II, 73; 
Gram. Gen. 91, et in Mem. Acad. P^tersb. ser. 6, I (1831), 91 ; Kunth 
Enum. I, 254 (non Cav. neque Steud.). 
Pappophorum brachystachyum Jaub. & Spacb in Ann. Sc. Nat. 
ser. 3, XIV (1850), 365; Illustr. PI. Or. IV, 34; Steud. Syn. PI. 
Glum. I, 200 ; Durand & Schinz Consp. FI. Afr. V, 870 ; Boiss. FL 
Or. V, 558 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. VII, 302 ; Blatter in Journ. Bomb. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. XVII (1907), 920. 
Pappophorum figarianum Fig. & De Not. in Mem. Ac. Torin. ser. 
2, XII (1852), 254. 
Pappophorum bulbosum Fig. & De Not. 1. c. 
Pappophorum vincentianum Schmidt Beitr. FI. Cap. Verd. Ins. 144; 
Durand & Schinz 1. c. 871. 
Pappophorum nanum Steud. 1. c. ; Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. VI 
(1862), 196. 
Pappophorum senegalense Steud. 1. c. ; Durand & Schinz 1. c. 871. 
Description : — Perennial, often compactly csespitose, all parts finely 
glandular pubescent, rarely subglabrous ; culms fascicled, geniculately 
ascending, 2-6 inches long, slender, often with a bulbous thickening at 
the base, 2-4-noded, simple or sparingly branched below, internodes 
mostly exserted ; leaves mostly near the base ; sheaths tight or those 
at the base of the branches loose, finely striate, nodes pubescent to 
villous ; blades very narow, linear, finely attenuated, 1-5 inches long, 
usually setaceously convolute, sometimes more or less scabrid. 
Panicle spike-like, 4 ”14 inches by 3-5 lines, dense, light to dark 
grey; spikelets lf-2 lines long; glumes subequal, oblong, obtuse or 
emarginate, scantily pubescent, thin, usually 5-(rarely 3- or 7-) nerved, 
side-nerves evanescent above ; lower valve § line long, shortly villous ; 
awns about 1-1 \ -lines long, shortly plumose to or beyond the middle; 
palea 1 line long, keels scabrid ; anthers ellipsoid-oblong, 4 “4 line long. 
Grain almost 4 line long. 
Locality Aden (Birdw.). 
Distribution v — South Africa, Kalahari Region, Senegambia, Cape 
Verde, North Africa, Arabia, Pan jab, Rajputana, Central Asia. 
17. Aeluropus Triii. 
Low, much-branched, very rigid perennial leafy grasses. Leaves disti- 
chous, short, strict, usually convolute, coriaceous, pungent. 
Spikelets 6-many-flowered, minute, sessile, densely crowded in 
terminal villous heads, laterally compressed, not articulate at the base ; 
rliachilla obscurely jointed at the base, not produced beyond the upper 
