20 CLXXiti. GUAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Paspalum: 



trigonous. Spikeleis snhsicssWe; gls. thin, shining. — Pale spikes and spikclets occur 

 on the Slime plant with the dark coloured. 



15. P- Perrottetiiy Sook.f.; stem creeping below, spikes in a pyra- 

 midal panicle lower often whorled, rachis capillary, spikelets ^o~tV i°* 

 oblong-lanceolate acute brown, upper of each pair long-pedicelled, gl. I 

 and II subequal many-nerved, III elliptic-lanceolate acuminate. Panicum 

 Wallichianum, Wight & Am. in Wight Cat n. 1607, Herb. 3085; Steud. 

 S(/n. Gram, 41; thw. Enum. PI Zeyl. 358; Trim. Cat. Cey/.P/. 104. 

 Pan. multibrachiatum, Hochst. ex Steud. I. c. 74. Pan. Perrottetii, Kunth 

 Pevis. Gram. ii. 395, t. 3; Enum. PL i. 96. Milium minutiflorum, Trin. 

 Panic. Gen. 33. 



^iLGHiRi Hills, Wight, &c., alt. 6000 ft., Lawson. Ceylon, in the Central 

 Province, Thwaites. — Uistrib. N. Africa. 



Very variable in height, 6-24 in., much branched below. Leaves 1-6 by ^-i in-j 

 glabrous or ciliate; sheaths 1-lJ in, ; ligule rounded, scarious. Fanicle 2-3 ni., 

 peduncle filiform. Spikes erecto-patent, lowtst ^-f in., upper gradually smaller; 

 rachis trigonous. Spikelets geminate, lower sessile or pedicelied. — The pauicled 

 inflorescence is very diflerent from that of P. pedicellare, 



POUBTFtTL SPECIES, 



P. GBirriTHiANTTM, C. Mull. %n Bot. Zeit. xxix. (1861) 325. '* Foot of Khasia 

 Hills, Griffith." — There is no Indian Paspalum that at all resembles the description 

 of this, which, according to its author, is an ally of P, fiuitansy Ell., and other 

 American species. There is probably an error as to the habitat and collector. 



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2. ERXOCRZ.OA., H. B. & K. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets secund on the 

 spiciform branches olE a raceme or panicle, base thickened and articulate 

 on the thickened top of the short pedicel. Glumes 3, I and II subequal, 

 membranous ; III shorter, apiculate, hardened in fruit. Lodicules 

 truncate. Stamens 3, anthers linear. Stifles free. Grain oblong, free 

 within the hardened glume. — Species few, tropical. 



The thickened base of the spikelet alone dl&tlnguishea Eriochloa from Paspalum, 



1. S. polystachya, IL B, Sf K. Nov. Gen. Sf Sp. i. 95, f. 31 ; spikes 



panicled, spikelets | in. long erect ovoid acute, gl. I & II silky or 

 glabrous 3-5-nerved. Lam. EncycL t. 909 ; Kunih Enum. PI, i. 72, Suppl* 

 63; Trim. Cat. Cej/l. PL 104; Buthie, Indig, Fodd. Grass, t. 41, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Jnd. 2. E. annulata, Kttnth Rev. Gram. i. 30, Enum. i. 73; 

 Aitrlns. Cat Pavjah. PL 158; Duthie Gras^. N.W. Ind. 2; Benth. FL 

 Hongk. 409, FL Austral, vii. ^63. E. punctata, Ham. Prodr. FL Ind. 

 Occ. 5; K-unth Enum. i, 72, Svppl. 54. Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 441; 

 Benth. FL AusiraL vii. 462. E. wubdaica, Miq* L c. S^ppL 606. E. succincta, 

 Kunth Lc. i. 73. Helopus annulatus, Nees in Mart FL Bras. ii. 17; 

 Wight CaL n. 1605 ; WalL Cat n. 8750. H. Isevis, Trin. ex Spreng. Neue 

 Entderk. ii. 49, fig. 4. H. pilosus, Trin. Fund. Agrod. 104, fig. 4. H- 

 acrotrichus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 100. Paspalum punctatum, Fluegge L c* 

 127 (PaHpalus); Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 155. P. annulatum, Fluegge Lc. 

 133 (Paspalus); Trin. Lc. t. 133. P. succmctum, Trin. Diss. li. 19; 

 Sp. Gram. le. t. 156. Milium Carar & M. Languchinia, Herb. Ham. e^ 

 hall. Cat n. 8750, F G. M. polystachyum, Spreng. b'yst. i. 251. M- 

 punctaluui, Linn. Ama^n. Acad. v. 392, Sp. PL 91 ; Br. Prodr. 188. ^v 



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