Paspalum.] clxxiii. graminej;. (J. D. Hooker.) 19 



{non Nees). P. tracbyanthum, Ne^s in Herb. WigJit Panicum pube- 



r^yxvix,Kunth Bevis. Gram, i. 32; Ilnf/m. PL I 81; Steud. Syn, Gram, 



^. Digitarla puberula, Link Enum. Hort. Berol i. 223. Milium ovatum, 



^eyne ex Wall Cat n. 8752. Agrostis villoaa, Koen, in Kerb. Mm. Brit. 



/ioysia Codia, Ham. in Wall. I. c— Paspalum, Wall. I c. n. 8684, 

 o'o2, A.C. 



f p 1 *^'®^"*^^^ ^^ India, from Kashmir eastwards to Munnipore, and southwards 

 H^v ' ascending the Himalaya to 7000 ft.— Disteib. Africa trop. 

 Uabitof the tall forms of P. longiflorumy almost always erect with long leaves, 

 except m starved specimens ; wel distinguished from that plant (as Dr. Stapf first 

 pointed out to me) by the short clavellate thick walled hairs of the spikelets, and 

 tK^ '^^l^^'^jj setulose pedicels, the longer hairs of wliich are sometimes half as long as 

 vpll • u *^' ^^ ^^^^ ^y ^^^ shorter broader gl. Ill, which is (as in longiflorum) pale 

 ^^^^^^^^ Qh I is often reduced to a tuft of hairs; II 



P ^* "" ^^^* — This species was referred by Munro to P. ischnocaulon, Trin., a 



S tT^'''^"'^^ .^^^"^"^^^ to India, by its author in Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 126, but 

 hav K ^^ America in the corrigenda at the end of that work. Some specimens 

 douhtfT ^^^^^^^^ by Munro to P. concinnum, Steud. (Syn. Gram. 19), a very 

 are h'/ 11*^^^*^^ of unknown origin. In the Ceylon specimen, C.P. 859, the pedicels 

 remark hi !^^"^^^®- ^^ African specimens, apparently of this species, they are 

 2 ft V** V, ^^^^^P^^ and longer than the spikelets. Specimens from Poona are tall, 

 accord if /^v^ i'obust, and branched from the base. SteudePs P. Royleanum is 

 to W.U1 ^r. . ^^ description a very ditferent plant, and judging by his reference of it 

 ^«*il. Cat. n. 8700 B. is Panicum auritum. 



alte^rnar* ^^^'^^n^re, Trin. ex Sleud. mm. Ed. II, ii. 272 ; erect, spikes 

 Bate nn ^PPj°''^'"^te erect or spreading, spikelets ^V in- geminate or 3-5- 

 JJiembr of each pair half as long as their pedicels elliptic acute, gls. 

 fcalp T>"^^^' ^^^ ^I subequal 5-nerved, III elliptic-oblong acuminate 



ililiuffi r ^'^'^ ^"*- 2310, 4' Herb. n. 3027 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. i. 

 ^oen i^^^^t^^' -^««"- e« Steud. Norn. Ed. II, ii. 145. M. punctatum, 

 ^^«. 'BurJr\ i/^"'- ^'■''^- ^- ^anguinale, Boxb. El Ind. i. 315 {excl. 



"riatum JT IT ^^^aceum, Koen. in Herb. Banks. ; Jacq. ex Trin. I. c. M. 



■^o<«/ S ^T^ ^''"'- ^* ^«^^- C'«^- n- 8747 A.-? Paspalum, No. 3, Griff. 

 1. 8747. * ^*^ -P^'O, I^- -P^- ^^iat- t. 146, f. 1.— Panicum, Wall. Cat. 



^^ngal. ^n^^'^ India, in the plains and low hills from the N.W. Provinces to 

 Sfe^i fj^i o . "^^ Hills, alt. 5000 ft., Btddome, Uppek BcKitA, CoUett. 

 - %0'e short so'^'' *^i'anched from the base. Leaves 2-6 by \-^ in., finely acuminate ; 

 ^ x!' ^Preadin^ ^^""i^' ^^'*^^ ^'^^' '^'^ ^"-^ subterminal on tlic very slender pedun- 

 ^ r*'^*^ ^<ieQtifi'e/p 1 ^-apillary, trig<^nous ; pedicels ^V'i i»- '> g^^^- ^^'^^'^^^ hairy.— 

 ^'*^tratestein 1 ^ '^''^^- ^ ^''^^^^ ^^^^^5 it diBers in tbe fluttenoa raohis, red 

 ^Jtburgb'a exc^l ^"^^ ^^^ spikelets, which 1 have never seen in ^edUellatum. 



euent drawing (us Milium aanguinale) shows pale spikelets. 



'^^S'); erect ^^.v^*°*' ^^'^^^- ^^ Goett. Nadir, (1868) 84 (Ge^amm. Ahhandl. 

 ^pikelets jl'j^ ^- stout, leaves long, spikes very many lower whorled, 



Nene 



Gram. 16. P. pedicel latum, Nees 



r^ C 



}^^ toment:,^'^ scattered pairs pale or dark purple elliptic acute. gN. 

 •"*Ptic-lancpni.f' '^^^«'" shorter than III 3-nerved, II 5-nerved, III 

 ■Hie Kb,,7 ^® acuminate. 



vlf'f" 24 ft^ 5,'^^^ ' j'l «-et places, alt. 5-6000 ft., /. D. B". ^ T. T., &c. 



* '*'"8; liffille i.'"^' '"*ernodes long. Leaves 6-10 by i-i in., smooth ; sbeath 



Short roundea. Spiles 4-7 in., very unequal; rachis slender^ 



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