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glume ; internodes very short. Glumes many, oblong, membranous, 
apiculate, the margins and tips broadly hyaline. Involucral glumes 
unequal, persistent, lower one narrowly oblong, l-S-nerved, upper on© 
much larger, 5-7-nerved from below the hvaline tip ; floral glumes 
oblong, apiculate, 7-9-nerved ; palea very large, broadly cuneate, 3-lobed, 
the lobes erose, flaps broad, keels nearly smooth or ciliolate. Lodicules 
obliquely truncate. Stamens 3 ; anthers minute. Styles short, free ; 
stigmas short, plumose. Grain oblong or obovoid, free within the 
glumes. 
Species few. 
Distribution : — From the Mediterranean and Caspian regions to the 
Punjab, Sind, S. India and Ceylon. 
Spikelefcs 4-8-flowered ...... 1. A. villosua. 
Spikelets 9-12-flowered . . . . . . 2. A. littoralis. 
1, Aeluropus villosus Trin. ex C. A. Mey. Yerz. Pfl. Cauc. 18 ; 
Aitchis. Cat. Panj. PI. 169 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. VII, 334; Trim. FI. 
Ceyl. V, 304 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. XIII (1901), 
441 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. Pres. II, 1045. 
Aeluropus arabicus Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, 1, 30 ; Anders. Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 42 ; Boiss. FI. Or. V, 595. 
Aeluropus brevifolius Wall. Cat. n. 8897 ; Wight Cat. n. 1792 (non 
Herb. Wight et exol. syn. Hactylis brevifolia, Linn.) ; Duthie Grass. 
N. W. Ind. 39. 
Aeluropus brevifolius Nees in Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, I, 30 ; 
Aschers. & Schweinf. 111. FI. d’Eg. 173. 
Aeluropus eoncinnus Fig. & de Not. in Mem. Acad. Torin. ser. 2, XII 
(1852), 257. 
Aeluropus siniacus Fig. & de Not. 1. c. 
Aeluropus lagopodioides Trin. ex Tw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 374. 
Aeluropus lagopoides Trin. ex Trim. Cat. Ceyh PI. 110. 
Aeluropus littoralis var. repens Coss. & Dur. Expl. Sc. Alger. 155 • 
Boiss. FI. Or. Y, 594. 
Aeluropus mucronatuB Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop, 297 ; 
Boiss. 1. c. 595. 
Aeluropus niliacus Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, I, 30. 
Aeluropus niloticus Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. VI (1862), 196. 
Aeluropus pubescens Trin. ex Steud. 1. c. partim ? 
Aeluropus pungens C. Koch in Linnsea XXI (1848), 408. 
Aeluropus repens Pari. FI. Ital. I, 462 ; Edgew, 1. c. 
Aeluropus bombycinus Fig. & de Not. in Mem. Acad. Torin. ser, 
2, XII (1852). 258. 
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