18 CLxxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D- Hooker.) l^Faspalum, 



spreading, rachis filiform, spikelets t\-tV ^^ elliptic-oblong silky with slender 

 (not clavellate) crisped hairs, pedicels glabrous or nearly so, gl. I and 

 II snbequal or I shorter or obsolete, II 5-nerved, III ovate acuminate. 

 Wall. Cat.n. 8711, C. ; Wight Cat. n. 1603; Baker FL Maurit, 4'^. P. 

 bifarium, Edgeiv. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxi. (18o3) 157 nomen. {ex Thw. 

 JEnam. PL Zeyl. 358). P. brevifolium, Fhiegge Gram. Monog. 150 {excL 



Syn.) ; Knnth Enum. PL i 48 ; Wight Cat. n. 1603, 1604 ; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 41 ; Benth. FJ. HongJc. 408, Fl. Austral, vii. 461 ; F ranch. & Sav, 

 Fn, PL Jap. ii. 159. P. chinense, Nees in Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voj/. 

 231 ; Steud. Lc. P. filiculme, Nees ex Thw. I.e.; Wight Gat. n. 1604; 

 Trim. Gat. GeyL PI. 104; Franclu Sc Sav. I c. ; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 1. 

 P. granulare, Trin. in Spreng. JV. Entdeck ii. 47; Kunth Lc. 60. P- 

 minutiflonim, Steud. I.e. 17; Benth. I.e. P. nematodes, SrhiiH. Mant, ii. 

 71; Kunth L c. 65. Panicum argyrotrichum, Anderss, in Peters Reise 

 Mossamh. Bot. 548. Pan. lineare, Paeudo Duroa, Nees in Herb, 

 Wight. Pan. lonffiflorum, GmeL Si/st. 158; WalL Cat n. 8751 A. Pan. 

 parvulum, Trin, Pan. Gen. 117, in Mem. Acad. Petersh, Ser. vi. iii- H 

 (1835) 305. Pan. propinquum, Br. Prodr. 193. Pan. Ps^udo-Dnroa, Nees 

 Fl. Afr. Austr. 21; Wight Cat. n. 1608. Pan. tenuiflornm, Br. I. c.\ 

 Kunth L r. 85; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 7, Fodd. Grass, N. Ind. 13. 

 Digit iria linearis, Schnlt. Mant. \\, 264 {ex Miguel). D. loogiflora, Per.?. 

 Si/n. i. 85. D. Pseudo-Duroa, Miq. FL Ind, Bat. iii. 439. D. Roxbnrghii, 

 i>prcng. Syst. i. 270. D. tenuiflora, Beauv. Agrost. 51. Milium filiforme, 

 Boxb. FL Ind. i. 314; Wight Cat, n 1604, a.b.c. M.radiatum, Herb. RottL 

 M. aetacenm, Herb. Koen. in Mus. Brit. M. triracemosum, Boxb. lc. Ined, 

 n. 315. AgroHtia len^a, Ait. Hort. Kew, i. 96. A. triracemosa. Herb. 

 iJoxi,— Paspalum, WalL Cat n. 8751, 8752 B.D.E. 



Tlironghout India, from Kashmir castwardn and southwards to Ceylon (C.P. 860) 

 VkwA Malacca ; ascending the Himalaya to 6000 ft. — Distkib. Trop. and subtrop. 

 regions of the Old World. 



Ai^nual or perennial ? Sterns tufted, 6-18 in,, simple or branched below and root- 

 intr with ascending branches,or prostrate. Leaves very various, 1-1^ in. long lanceol te 

 and divaricate, or 6-8 in. long, linear erect or spreading; sheath smooth or hairy; 

 ligule short, truncate, membranous. Spikes 1-4 in.,suhdigitate or alternate, usually 

 silvery-white. Spikelets geminate, a subsessile and pedicelled, pale green or purplish ; 

 gl. Ill pale, or dark brown. — The extreme forms of this species are very dissimilar, 

 the most marked are P. hvgiflorum^ proper {brevifolium, Flnegge), with often 

 prostrate stems spreading from the root or creeping and rooting from 6-12 in. with 

 short lauceol.ite leaves, and 2-3 divaricate spikes, and P. minutiflorum , Steud., 

 with slender erect stems, narrow linear leaves and many long erect spikes, exactly a3 

 P. Eoyleanum. The hairs on the spiktlets seen under the microscope nre verV 

 clendcr and as it were crisped or wrinkled, quite unlike those of P. ternatum and 

 Rntfleannm. Thwaite's CF. n. 2573 is a puzz'ing plant, tall, with much longer 

 spikelets, approaching those of P. amhi^uum. Though in this species and its allies 

 thi-re is no distinct jxl. at the base of II, a microscopical rudiment of one may often 

 (always?) be detected. 



12. P. Boyleanum, Nees ex Thw, Enum. PL Zeyl. 358; erect or 

 Rliortly decumbent below, leaves usually erect, spikes 2-10 erect, rachis 

 filiform, spikelets ^V-iV i°- .o^>'o"R» k'- I and II densely crisply white- 

 tom^ntose with clavellate hairs, pedicel setulose, gl. I = J III or shorter of 

 obsolete, II broadly oblong subacute 5-nerved, III oblong snbacnte quite; 

 smooth. Trim. Cat. PL Cet/l 158; Herb. Strach, Jf Winterb. Pasp. n. SH 

 Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. \. P. filiculme, Herb. Sirach. & Winterb. n.'i 



