I 



Paspalum.] cLxxiii. qraminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 17 



ambigruum 



or ascendin)?, spikes 2-4 aubdigitate spreading, rachis narrowly winged, 

 pedicels nearly glabrous, apikeleta imbricate ^\ in. elliptic subacute silkily 



pubescent with sIpTirlfir Viairo nr- rrloKvQ + o r,l I nno^l,, _ TTT TT S.narTTfl/l 



III, II 5-nerved, 



51 <*Jpe-oblong acute. Panicum ambiguum, Lapeyr. Hist. Ahr. PI. Pi/r. 

 ai; i*Z7. & Not. in Act. Tor. (1854) 336, t. 11 ; Sang, in Atti Line. Ser. I. 



^Tiu. (1865) 219, t. 

 ^an. distichum, Ga^ 



421. Pan. arenarium, Bieb, Fl. Taur. Cauc. i. 62. 

 aistictium, Gaudin ex Steud. Norn. JEd. IT, ii. 265. Pan. glabrum, 

 ^audm Agrost. Helvet. i. 22 ; Fl. Helvet. i. 155 ; Tnn. Diss. ii. 83 ; Sp. Gram. 

 %■ ^'i^^^'' -^^"^^ E72um. PI. i. 83; Som. Fl. Orient, v. 433; ^Sfewo?. 

 m- (rram. -1. Pan. humifusum, Kunth Bevis. Oram. i. 33. Pan. 



7?.„ '"^^i ^^^^' -^^*^^- ^'•a^"'- 26 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 27. D. glabra, 



"" ' ■ Parlat. Filial, i. 127. D. 



y, -..*.,o. -i. jran. numitusum, jvuntti lievts. Lrratn, i. oo. ran. 



Pt' S-?''^?' ^^^^^^- eJ5 Schweigg. Spec. Fl. Erlang. 16. Pan. lineare, ErocTc 

 ^'■^les. 1. 95. Pan. sananiTialft. Pnllinh. TJi.^L PL Palat. i. 67. Diffitaria 



filifor 



^'^•^oolGes. Wien. xxii. (1872)99. _., 



'*• ii, 1. 608. Syntherisma glabrum, Schrad. Fl. Germ. i. 163. 



^ WB8TEBN HiMAlA 



Rostaf, 



m 



Stewart 



** 



«JmrfUl9 • ' ^-^^'^^ ^^^^ Thomson,— Di8TK\B. Europe, N. Asia, 

 "cute t k ^"** usually diffusely spreading, rarely erect. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 or divar" f *' ^^"^^ ^^ ®^®^*^^ ^^"7- '^i^ifcetf 2-6, 1-2 in. long, suberect 

 ^ithsliJui 1^^^®^ ^^ reddish. Spikelels variable in hairiness; the hairs often 

 »^ootht^i^ .*^.®^'P*' Sl*II with rarely a minute one at the base ; III quite 

 '^c^xn^' P ^^'*^'^ar to var. cruciatum of P. sa^iguinoXe, but " 

 ich ia K \^^?^^ ^^®^^' ^"^ ^'- ^^ i* "®v^r acuminate. Even n.v.ic .i..c x . *^, ,.«,.«.»., 

 oest distinguished by the brisfcle-Iike hairs on the pedicel, and short clavate 

 ^n the outer gls. 



not 



has smaller broader 

 more like P. tematvun^ 



^""3 stibdi" -.^y**^*'*''*? Hook.f.\ stems erect or decumbent below, spikes 

 ^^^ V^— ^^ ^^-^^^ ^^ spreading, rachis narrowly winged ciliolate, spike- 



^airs^-^^S^^^^^^te imbricate elliptic subacute villous with clavellate 

 <^nidisf!Ti?T®^*^^^«^' gl- I nearly = -^^ -- -^-^- tt k — ^^a ^..^.„ 

 ». 8755 p' ^^^ "^^^^^-^blong acute, P 



III or shorter, II 6-nerved nerves 



Y\ m " --"•'^ vik^*vFXAg av; uuc;. I-- 1111 mil iinLLLLJ. ixoc/fLO cxiu rr C 



5;fi„^';c„™cum ternatnm, ITo 



^«. Gram. 40. flvnr^^^r, 



7w?'eZZ. 19 ; 



4^5, •, y^-Gram. 40. Cynodon ternatum, ^. i?icA. Tenf. J'/. Abyss, ii. 



I Y 



^Ottiraua pU^ rJ^' Bababudan Hills, iTeyne ; Belgaum,E/7c7uV, Khasia HilLS; 

 , Babif of P^^^?/^-' •^^ ^- -ST. ^ T. T.-DiSTRfB. Abyssinia. 

 |**|3rou8 or wifl! ^^^^ff^^^' Leaves 2-5 in., linoar-lanceolate or linear; sheath 



ous, truncate. 



*^*e*2^3in \^ ^^^ ^»^»rp, mouth ciliate; lieule short, membran 



r '^Pper haii4 >! Tr^'^^^^^®- ^pikeleis pale, pedicels short, hispid with stitt hairs, 



r^»e fringe ?'*«^* as long as the spikrlet ; gl. land II with the hairs forming a 



°^ leaved • th p v '"^^^ins.— The Belgaum and Kbasian specimens are tall and 

 !)*^*'ated land 5 ^^ ^^"^"n ones very short- Said by Schimper to be a pest in 

 ^^^^'■oscopical PT .■^*^>'®*^»5a. It so closely resembles P. ambiguum, that without 

 r^^i^b it fronf^T ""^ ^^^ ^'"^^8 ^f the spikelets it is very difficult to dis- 



W "pikelets H * «P^<^5e8. A Ceylon plant, from Thwaites (C.P. 2573), with 

 •nil , ^g^ished f » ^^^9iflorum (to which I doubtfully refer it), cannot 

 *'^*e]et. "om P. ternatum except by the structure of the hairs of the 





11. J». 



8 in., with no minute gl. at base of 



^ rarely ef. 7**/""*' ^^*^- Ohs. iv. 16 (non Trin.) ; stems procum 



^^- vii. "®^^ ^J^om the base, spikes 2- many subterminal erec 



■-.I ■ . ' "V. 





bent 



erect or 

 c 



^ ■ . - "r- r 



