IG CLxxiit. GR.VMiN'E^. (J, B. Hooker.) [Paspalum, 



uianv, rrtcliis narrowly winged, spikclots obloiig-lanooolate ucnminate more or loss 

 ciUate, gl. I half the length ot'lllorless or minute oiliate. Pan, extensnm, Nees 

 if Am. in Wight Cat. u. 2340 (which is Pan. dilatatum, Steud, I.e. 39). Pan. 

 nervosum, Ridtler in Ge^. Naturf. Ft. Neue Schrift. iv. (1803), 194 {not 

 £oxh). P. fiiiforrae, Herb, Roxb. — Common. This resembles a slender form of var. 

 commutatumf with reduced gl, I. 



Var. 8, dehile; small or dwarf, 4-10 in. high, much branched from the tufted or 

 prostrate or creeping base, glabrous or hairy, spikes 2-5 1-3 in. digitate or nearly 

 »o slender, wings of rachis narrower than the midrib, spikelets lanceolate acuminate, 

 gl. I. from minute to nearly as long as III ciliate, II 5-nerved glabrous or ciliate. 

 Pasp. debile, Poir.Eneycl. v. 34 {excl, syn,) ; Eoem. ^ Sch, Syst. ii. 303. Pan. 

 debile. Desf. Fl. Atlajit, i. 59; Berfol. Fl. Ital. ii. 778; Trin. Fame. Gen. 117. 

 Pigitaria debilis, Willd, Eniim, Hort Berol. i. 91; Farlat. Fl. Ital. i. 127.— Plains 

 and low hills, from Bengal to Burma, Malacca, and the Andaman and Nicohar Islds. 

 Ceylon (C.P. n. 856, 857).— Ifa/Z. Cat. 8683 (spikes longer, more slender). Avery 

 common dwarf form in low ground or poor soil, passing into var. commutatum, and 

 the following. The specimens with gl. I nearly as long as III are typical Pan. dehile 

 of the Mediteranean region, but there is a gradual shortening of that gl. to a mere 

 fimbriate scale. A minute accessory gl. at base of gl. II is present or absent. The 

 Nicohar specimens have ti\e bearded upper spikelet of var. ciliare. 



Var. 9, Rottleri, characters of var. dehile, but rachis of spike stouter broader 



green, the wings two or three times broader than the midrib, glumes broader as in 



comnitttafinn, of which it is a dwarf form. — ^It resembles Host's and lleichenbach's 



figures of ciliare. Pan. Rottleri ? and P. ciliare, Wight Herb. n. 3032 (not Cat. 



1610), and 3033. — Common in the plains of India. 



7. P. heteranthum, Hook. f. ; stem stent, spikes many 6-12 in., 



racbis very stent rigid trigonous, spikelets \ in. very distant, npper long- 

 pediceiled lanceolate, gls. rigid finely acuminate, I and II longer than 

 III, of lower spikelet prlabrous of npper villous, Panicnm barbatnm, 

 Kxinih Revis. Gram. L 33; Unum. PI. i. 84; Steud. Syn. Oram. 43. Benth. 

 Fl. Hongl'. 410. Pan. elytroblepharnm, Steud. in ZoU. Syst. Verz. 54. Pan. 

 eminena, Steud. I.e. 43. Pan. heteranthum, Nees et Meyen in Nov. Act. 

 Nut. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (18^3), 174; Steud. I.e. 43. Digitaria barbata, 

 Willd, Enum. Hort. Berol. 91. D. elytroblephara, iMtj. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 

 439. 



Maiay P^NiysuiA; Pahaug, Sidley. — Distbib. Java, China. 



A very remarkable species, of which I have seen only one Malayan specimen. 

 The spikes appear to be irregularly produced, being leafy y?here their bases meet ; 

 rachis strict or flcxuons, margined with green. Lower spikelet of each pair with very 

 strongly nerved, acuminate, glabrous gls., and no small hasal gl., upper with a 

 rigid pedicel and minute, orbiculur, naked, basal gl., its other gls. densely villous ; 

 pis. of the upper spikelet at length spreading, hairs very long, with hooked tips. 

 Perhaps only an extreme form of P. saguinale^ var. ciUare. I have seen no 

 authentic specimen of F. elyirohlepharum, hut Miquel's description of it accords 

 with the Malayan plant, and he cites P. eminens as a synonym. 



8. p. pennatum, Hook. f. ; spikes 8-10 radiating elongate filiform 

 ciliate, spikelets i-j in. solitary or binate narrowly lanceolate subsilky, 

 gl. I as long as III 3-5-nevved, II with or -without a minute basal one 

 nerves, 5 equidistant, III narrowly elliptic-lanceolate acuminate. Pani- 

 cnm pennatum, Horhst. in Flora, xxxviii. (1854), 197. 



SiND; at Kurrachee, Stocks. Beluchistan, Frere, — Distrib. Arab., Abyssin. 



SUm 1-2 ft., branching from the subercct or prostrate base, slender. Leaves 

 1-6 hy A in., glabrous, or sheaths and sometimes margins and both surfaces hairy, 

 ciliate with long hairs towards the base; ligule rather long, membranous. Spik^' 

 3-6 in, ; rachis almost capillary, trigonous, very rarely branched, cilia very long. 

 Spikelets erect, pedicel of the upper almost as long iis the gls. 



