62 clyii. gramineas (Stapf). [. Lasiurus . 
466 ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 162 ; Terracciano in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma, v. (1894) 94 ; Cooke, FI. Bombay, ii. 973. 
Nile Land. Nubia : between Suakim and Berber, Wadi-O-Mareg, Schwein- 
furth, 567 ! Ser. 111,134! Suakim; Uaratab Mountain, Schweinfurth, 1191 ! 
Eritrea ; Ambakahl, Ehrenberg ! Samhar ; sides of the Amba torrent, Penzig ; 
Islands of Midir and Haressan, Terracciano . British Somaliland, Drake Brock- 
man, 498 ! 507 ! 
Also in Egypt and eastwards through Baluchistan to Rajputana and Sind. 
Considered to be excellent grazing when young. In Rajputana the seeds are 
collected and largely consumed with Sorghum flour (Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 
Ind. iii. 242). 
16. ELYONURUS, Humb. & Bonpl. apud Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 941. 
Spikelets similar, usually awnless, but differing in sex, 2-nate, 
one sessile, the other pedicelled, on the articulate fragile rhachis 
of solitary spike-like racemes, the sessile deciduous with the adjacent 
joint of the rhachis and the pedicel. Florets 2 ; lower reduced to 
an empty valve ; upper § in the sessile, d, rarely barren, in the 
pedicelled spikelet. Glumes equal ; lower subcoriaceous to herba- 
ceous, often 2-toothed or 2-fid, rarely awned, dorsally flattened, 
2-keeled, usually with fine filiform transparent balsam ducts close to 
the ciliate or penicillate keels ; upper membranous, lanceolate, 
acute, rarely awned. Valves hyaline, awnless. Valvule obsolete 
or 0. Lodicules 2, cuneate. Stamens 3. Stigmas laterally ex- 
serted. Grain oblong, dorsally compressed ; embryo about half 
the length of the grain. — Generally perennial, csespitose, aromatic ; 
blades flat or folded ; ligules membranous, very short ; racemes 
erect, joints strongly compressed, usually villous, tips oblique, not 
appendaged. 
Species about 15, in the tropical and subtropical regions of both hemi- 
spheres. 
Lower glume of sessile spikelet with warts bearing tufts 
of hairs. 
Perennial 
Annual. 
Racemes distant, long-exserted from the narrow 
supporting sheaths 
Racemes usually gathered in bunches, more or less 
embraced by the wide spathe-like supporting 
sheaths ... 
Lower glume of sessile spikelet ciliate, the cilia not 
gathered in tufts borne on wart-like tubercles 
along the keels. 
Culms much branched upwards ; flowering branches 
usually 2- or 3-nate, long and very slender, fasti- 
giate ; sessile spikelet 34-4 lin. long. 
Hairs of joint several times longer than the short 
cilia of the sessile spikelet ; pedicelled spike- 
let acute, not mucronate ... 
1. E. hirtifolius. 
3. E. royleanus. 
4. E. 'platypus. 
