raspalum.'] clxxiii. qramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 11 



Austral, vii. 460. P. alteraang, Steud. I. c. 26. P. auriculatum & cartila- 

 gineum, Fresl Bel. Haenh. i. 217, 216. ? P. bifarmm, Edge.w. in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. xxi. (1853) 178. P. coloratum, Eich. ex Doell m Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. II. 78. P. Coramersoni, Lamk. Illuatr. i. 175. P. coromaTide- 

 liamim, Lavik. I. c. ; Kunth I. c. 55 ; Steud. I. c. 32. P. dissectum, Lmn. 

 Syst. ii. 86. P. dimidiatum, Linn. Syst. Ed. x. 856. P. firmum, Trin. 



Panic. 105, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 125; Kunth I.e. 60. P. flexuosum, 



.„ 73 7 7 - oitc. IT. .^41, 7 « S/L . Mi/Tf VI TviA Tint,, iii. 432. P. 



Gram 

 Klein 



frumentaceum, Botth. ex Boem. Sf Sch. Syst. u. 296; Koen. ex Inn. Uram. 

 Panic. 57; Kunth I.e. 53. P. hirsutum, Betz. Obs. ii. 7; Kunth I. €.33; 

 Miq. I. c. 433. P. Houttuynii, H. G. Sail ex de Vriese in Pl. I^\^^j^- 

 Btinw. 113. P. Kora, Willd. Sp. PL i. 332; Host Gram. Austr.t 74; 

 Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 5, t. 61 ; Boxb. I. c. ; Grah. I. c; Duthte Indig.Fodd. 

 Grass, t. 2. P. longiiolmm, Boxb. I. c. 280; Trin. Sp. Gram. let. \S6; 

 Wight Cat. n. 1602, ITerb. n. 1600. P. mauritanicum, Nees ex Steud. I.e. 

 26. P. metabolon, P. Metzii, and P. mollipilum, Steud. I.e. 19, 21, 29. ^. 

 orbiculare, Forst. Prodr. 7 ; Fluegge I. c. 88. P. polystachyum and P. 

 pubescens, Br. Prodr. 188 ; Kunth I. c. 54, 55. P. puberulum, i?oem. dC ^cA. 

 Syst. ii. 316 (Paspalus). P. sumatrense. Both Nov. Sp. 35 ; Kunth I. c. 55. 

 P: Thunberdi, Kunth ex Steud. I. c. 28 ; Franch. & Sav. En. PLJap. 159. 

 P. venustum, Forst. f. ex Boem. Sf Sch. I. c. 297. P. ZoWing^n Steud. Lc 

 28. Panicnm dissectam, Linn. Sp. PI. 57.— Paspalum, Wall. tat. n. b/oi. 

 —Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. S4>.—Sloane Hist. Jam. 1. 1. 69, f. 2. 



Throughout hotter India (wild or cultivated), from the Panjab eastwards and 

 southwards to Singapore aud Ceylou.— Distrib. All warm countries. ^ 



Annual, erect or base very shortly decumbent, 1-6 ft. high leafy g.abrous, 

 rarely hairy. Leaves acuminate; Hgule short, membranous. Feduncle rather slender. 

 S:pikes 2-8, 1-3 in. long, alternate, erect or spreading; rachis ^l-to m- broad, 

 margins ciliate or serrulate. Spilcelets in 2, rarely 3-4 rows, imbricate, glabrous or 

 sparsely pubescent, sometimes geminate on a common pedicel; gl. 1 convex; ii 

 flat with two submarginal strong nerves, along the inner margms ot which t'^e &i- i3 

 sometimes marked with shallow transverse pits (whence the specifac name) ; g'-.^^^- 

 with inflexed auricled margins.— I find it impossible to classify the large series ot 

 specimens of this variable plant under available varieties. Roxburgh regarded t le 

 Indian forms as 3 species, scroUculatum, Kora, and longifohum. Between tbe 

 first two of these he gives no differential characters, beyond that of scroUculatum 

 Laving erect stems 2 tt. high and being a cultivated form, whereas ^ora is indigenous, 

 growing on the banks of watercourses and attaining 8 ft. (? error for 3 tt., as in tne 

 description that follows) aud has the stem decumbent at the base. -P. longijolnim 

 he separates by the creeping stems, geminate terminal spikes and pitted seeds but .is 

 Trinius describes the pitting is microscopic (as in other forms of the species) Having 

 regard to the specimens before me, I recognize with more or less confidence (I) a form 

 with larger dorsally tumid spikelets, which I assume to be the cultivated form C'nclud- 

 ing orbiculare, frumentacum, Kora, cor omandelianum, and hirsutum) ; its gi. iris 

 either pitted or not ; and (2) a form with rather smaller spikelets, often in 3-4 rows 

 and gl II never pitted, to which I vefi^T longifolium, Zolhngerx, and dissectum 

 (which latter is the earliest name (under Panicum) of the species). It 

 abounds all over India, and is the only form of which I have seen Malayan specimens 

 Besides the synonyms adduced above, as to which I am pretty well assured, there 

 may be perhaps many luore to be added. 



2. P. conjug-atum, Berg, in Act. Eelvet. vii. (1772) 129, t. 8 ; 

 spikes 2 terminal or subterminal very slender, spikelets y? m- subsessiie 

 orbicular nearly flat, gl. II byaline margins villously cihate. ^"'■f''- 

 Ind. Occ. i. 133 ; Fluegge Monogr. Gram. 102 (Paspalus) ;^ea«.. 11. Ouar 

 56,t.92, f. 2; Trin. Panic. Gen. b4, Sp. Gram. Id. 102; Kunlhhevi, 

 Gram. 25, Fnum. PI. i. 51 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI 101. P. bicrurulum et 



