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FLORA OF ADEN . 
Dactylis lagopodioides Dalz. and Gibs. Bomb. FI. 298 (exch syn.). 
Dactylis lagopoides Linn. Mant. 38 ; Roxb, FI. Ind. I, 340 ; Grab. 
Cat. Bomb. PI. 236 (excl. Syn.). 
Dactylis massaviensis Steud. Syn. Gram. 298. 
Dactylis repens Desf. FI. Atlant. I, 79, t. 15. 
Poa lagopodioides Kunth Rev. Gram. I, 111 ; Enum. I, 325. 
Poa massavensis Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. II (1837), 143. 
Poa repens Bieb. FI. Taur. Caue. Ill, 69. 
Poa tunetana Spreng. Pugill. II, 20. 
Calo theca arabica>. 
Calotheca niliaca L Spreng. Syst. Yeg. I, 347, 348. 
Calotheca repens J 
Koeleria brevifolia Herb. Wight ex Wall. Cat. n. 8897 C. 
Sesleria lagopodioides Spreng. Pugill. II, 22. 
Festuca mucronata Forsk. FI. Aegypt. Arab. 22. 
Festuca pungens Vahl Symb. I, 10, t. 2. 
Description : — Perennial, rigid, tufted ; stems 3-8-inches long, 
crowded on a woody rootstock with stout root-fibres, as thick as a crow- 
quill, simple or branched, smooth and polished ; branches sometimes 
elongate, divaricate, 6-10 inches long, resembling stolons, giving off 
branchlets at the nodes but not rooting ; nodes glabrous ; internodes 
short or long. Leaves -J-l inch long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 
flat or convolute and subulate, erect or spreading, glabrous or sparsely 
ciliate ; sheaths short, terete or inflated, glabrous or ciliate ; ligule a 
shortly hairy ridge. 
Heads of spikelets shortly pedunculate, subglobose or oblong. Spikelets 
reaching |-inch long, 4-8-flowered, crowded, sessile, villous with soft 
hairs, pale green or white. Lower involucral glume j^-inch long, ovate- 
oblong, subacute, hairy and with ciliate margins ; upper involucral glume 
J-inch long, similar; floral glumes J-inch long, ovate, subobtuse, apicu- 
late, many-nerved, hairy and ciliate, the lower 2-4 sometimes neuter ; 
pale, broad, 3-lobed. Anthers -j^-inch long, oblong. 
Grain ^-inch long, obovoid-oblong, dorsally compressed. 
Flowers and fruits December (Schweinf.). 
Locality 8 9 . — In sandy places (Anders.); Shaikh Othman (Defl.) ; 
very common on sand fields along the coast of Shaikh Othman (Schweinf.). 
Distribution Mediterranean and Caspian regions, Upper Egypt, 
Nubia, Central and S. Arabia, Persia, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, 
W. Peninsula of India, Ceylon. 
8. Aeluropus littoralis Pari. FI. Ital. I, 461; Batt. & Trab. FI. 
d’Alg. 75; Boiss. FI. Or. V, 591; Pojero FI. Sic. (1909), 332. 
