Paspalum.] 



CLXXIII. GRAMINEaE. (J. D. Hookei.) 



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hills.--This form appears to me to be most nearly allied of any in habit and 

 fipikt-kts to Pasp. amhiguum. 



Var, 2. commutatum; usually tall, stout or slender, tufted or prostrate and 

 widely creeping below, leaves rather long, spikes few or many (up to 20) 3-6 ia. 

 long fastigiately or subcorymbosely arranged, lower often whorled or fascicled, 

 rachis slender narrowly winged, spikelets broad rather crowded shortly pediccUed, 

 ill lanceolate rather shorter and narrower than III, II with the lateral nerves 

 glabrous or pubescent, and with usually a minute gl. at the base. III lanceolate 

 ^*^^^!^ate. Pan. commutatum, Nees in fferh. Royle ; Digit, ciliaris ? Wight Cat. 

 ^i j!^ p ^^" ^' ^^^^ > Pasp. paniculatum, Eerh, Jacquemont,\ Pan. sanguinale, Herb, 

 atrach, ^ -Wint n. 1. P. ciliare. Thwaites fCR n. 861. 862\— Panicum, WalL Cat. 



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Ta • "^ }^ ^^^^ ^^' ^^°"^ t^® Himalaya, and to 10,000 in Western Tibet. 



^ \ u ^^^'^ '^^^^ ^^ ^^^ typical S. African Pan. commutatum, Nees, but 

 descKK '?^^*^/'^^ *« to its being the P. corymhosiim, Roxburgh, which is 

 stand ^ " ^^^^ ^^ valleys of the Circars, growing to a great size in 



abo *"^ ^^ters, with culms creeping, or floating with their erect extremities 

 SDeoil /' ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ dry ground it is in general 1-4 ft. high, Jtoxi:' A 

 hVmu ^*-^ ^?^* ^^^^^^^y^tatum in Herb. Kew is labelled Pan. fiUforme in Koxburgh's 



v!r q''^^ ""^^ probably the ticket is misplaced. 

 Bhndt "" '^^^ * usually tall, slender, spikes few (2-6) 3-6 in. long:, rachis 

 Rlabrous^^'^^^'^ • winged, gl. I long or short ciliate, gl. II of lower spikelet, with 

 Serves d^** ^^^^!"^^y "bilious, marginal nerves, of upper splkelet with the marginal 

 tl»an tl?^"^i ^ villous or bearded with soft spreading hairs that are much broader 





8682^ I^T^'^-1 ^"^ ^^^^" hooked at their tip^. 

 tala 't7 ^^^^^^'^'^ ciliaris, var. quadristachya, 



'^heiiX V r® enumerated (as in 



'^ery comm^ '^ ^^'^ advanced that the beard appears to be fully developed. 



elender' *«--~^*^^^''^ ' P^^ennial, tall, strict, erect, Bpikes very many 3-7 in., rachis 



, villous 



P. ciliare, Setz,; Wall Cat. n. 



Wight Herb. n. 3034. D. coinmii- 



Tbe bearded glumes may occur in other of 



var. dehile from the Nicobars) as it is only 



^^J>abulare; perennial, tall, strict, erect, Bpikes very many 

 Jigonoua, spikelets rather distant narrowly lanceolate acuminate silkily 



&!• I as long as III S-mrved, II with approximate nerves and 



Pan. 



white 



Usually ti ni* ' f ^^^ ^^ d-mrved, II with approximate 



'*^ Aitchiz^u^^^^^^^^i^ S^' ^^ '^^^ ^*^^^' ^^I ^^*T narrow acuminate. Pan. pahu- 



chistan tJ' ^ ^'"^^- ^' <5-— The lower hills of the Panjab, Affghauistan, and Belu- 



^Wer' triffo"'**^^'^ * erect, glabrous, or sheaths hirsute, spikes many 3-5 in., rachis 

 nearly as lon"^^^' spitelets narrowly lanceolate acuminate nearly glabrous, gl. I 

 ^asalgl ITT^ ^* ^^^* ^^ ^^^y "arrow, with approximate nerves and a minute 

 (<^«<.n 8681 T^''^^T.^'^^^^^^^^"™^°^^^• Pan. pruriens, Fisch, I c— Bengal, jrallich 

 ^^??)' (»^ava &^\ ™^' OHffithy Malacca, Cuming (n. 2397), Maingai/ {Kew Dlstrib. 



often drooping, rachis 



^*"4ce, pe(];« i «' r-"^-'vua iiucur-miiceuiate soiiuiry or lu uistaut pairs glabrous or 



^*f»ow Tnerv d T^^^^ ^^^" \ow^^r than the spikelets, gl. I nearly as long as III 



^^Griffithii A ?^*^' ^I with ciliate lateral nerves, III narrow acuminate. Pani- 



^Jssitiflormn ';^'"'*- T ^^^^' l^^^g/l^.Pan, corymbosum, Thxv. Herb, (C.P. 3800). Pan. 



'^^^f- Ca^ n Qco^ ^^^^^' ^n Wight Cat, n. 2341 (not of Steud.), Pan. Fanguinalo, 



8681, D.Q. and 8748. 



if^^t.n ifiin/ V"'/'^' **"" o'^o. ran 



Pan. Ilottleri, Kunth (nervosum, Willd.) Herb. 



ram,) — Panicum? WaU. Ca^ d. 8748.— Madra?, 



l"Qger pedicelied ^"u^ ^^sembles Fan. commutatum^ but bus filiform spikes of scattered. 



Ion 



locality 



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^^^ttsula, he 1?^ -^r^ott's ticket of Qriffithii, wh'i 



' ^^f- 7 t^J.1' ^^^^^^ ^ *^ave seen no specimen 



, 'i eaf^nwrnj stout 



It occurs in S. Africn, and no doubt elsewhere. There 



ich is doubtless from the Madias 

 which is Pan. horizontale, var. 



or slender, 'sheaths glabrous or hirsute, spikes few or 



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