FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Dactylis littoralis Willd. Sp. PI. I, pars 1, 408 ; Roem. & Sennit. 
Syst. Veg. II, 628 ; Bert. Amaen. Ital. 238 ; Pollin. FI. Veron. I, 
116; Tent. FI. Nap. 111,72; Guss. PL Bar. 80, et FI. Sic. Prodr. I, 
100 (excl. syn. Cup. et Bon.) ; Lois. FI. Gall. ed. 2, I, 69; Boiss. 
Yoy. en Esp. 664; Vis. FI. Dalm. I, 77 ; Guss. FI. Sic. Syn. I, 91 ; 
Poa littoralis Gouari. FI. Monsp. 470; Savi Bot. Etrusc. II, 53 ; 
Marie. FI. Yenet. I, 52; Nacc, FI. Yenet. I, 70; Kunth Enum, PL I, 
324 (excl. Syn. Desf.). 
Dactylis maritima Schrad. FI. Germ. I, 313; Roem. & Schult. Syst. 
Veg. II, 627 ; Reich. FI. Germ. Exeurs. I, 36. 
Festuca littoralis Sibth. & Smith FI. Graec. I, 63 (excl. syn. Des£.) 
Dactylis distichophylla Brign. Ease. PL Foroj. 16. 
Calothea littoralis Spreng. Syst. Yeg. I, 347. 
Description : — Caespitose, densely intricate, creeping, stoloniferous, 
the sterile stolons long-prostrate; sheaths as long as the internodes; 
floriferous culms several, squamose-vaginate at the base (sheaths 
coriaceous), erecto-ascendent ; leaves canaliculate, short, lanceolate, acute, 
very often distichous-squarrose, hard, glaucous, smooth, mucronato- 
callose at the apex ; ligule pilose. 
Panicle terminal or axillary, on a very short peduncle, ovate-oblong, 
slightly elongate, dense ; branches very short, disticho-glomerate. 
S pikelets glabrous, 9-12-flowered, oblanceolate or lanceolate, short ; 
‘florets densely imbricate ; glumes ovate, acute, concave, carinate, 
obscurely nerved on the margin ; lower palea obsoletely 5-nerved, ovato- 
mucronate ; upper palea bidenticulate. 
Locality : — Sandy plain between Barriere Gate and Shaikh Othman 
(DefL). 
Distribution Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Algeria, 
Tunis, Egypt, Arabia (not Sind). 
LVII.— GNETACEJL 
Trees or shrubs ; branches jointed at the nodes. Leaves opposite, 
large and green or minute and scale-like ; stipules 0. 
Flowers 1-sexual, monoecious or dioecious, in axillary or terminal 
spikes or cones. Male flowers : perianth valvately 2-lobed or spathaceous ; 
stamens connate in a column of united filaments ; anthers 2-8, globose, 
1-3 celled, sessile or subsessile on the column. Female flowers : a naked 
erect ovule with 2-3 coats, of which one is produced into a styliform 
tube with a discoid mouth. 
Seed dry or drupe-like ; albumen copious or scanty ; embryo straight; 
cotyledons appressed ; radicle long, superior. 
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