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Ttachne.] CLrxiir. graminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 25 



N. Zeald. t. 12 ; Bailey Grasses Queensl. i. 1 ; Franch. & Sav. En. PL 

 .P-J}' 164. I. atro-vivens, Trin. Gram. Panic. 251. I. lepidota, Steud. 

 tn Flora, xxix. (1846) 19; Walp. Ann. i. 924. Panicum antipodum, 

 p>reng. Syst. i. 314; Steud. Syn. Gram. 94. P. atro-vivene, Trin. ez 

 (ypreng.^ iSeue Entdeck. ii. 88, Syst. Veg. i. 318 ; Kunth I. c 127. P. anstralis, 

 ^^'/i? ^«w- ^c. Nat. V. (i825) 299. P. lepidotum, Sieud. m J'^ora, 

 XXIX (1846) 19. P. Dodibarbatum, Hochst. PI. Hohenack. n. 127 ; Steud. 

 t.c.96. P. ^rmlacQum, Kleine ex Thiele in Linnxa, ix. (1834) 307. Aira 

 ischffimnides, Koen. ex Kunth I. c. 127. Milium globosum, Thunh. Fl. Jap. 

 *y---l8achne. Wall. Gat. n. 8656, A B C F. 



wn,??"^ P""*^® "*" India, from Assam and Burma to Central India and south- 



Bt ^^^^N-— DiSTRiB. Austral., N. Zeald. 

 beard ^a* r *"' ^™™ ^ creeping branching base; nodes glabrous or sparsely 

 niarp"^ .y^^"^ I~3 '"•> rarely more, subscaberulous above or on both surfuces, 

 smoofT *^ °^**^' nerves or 2 3 very slender pnirs, midrib obscure ; sheaths 

 or pvr "h'*!^ *°^ °^^^^ margins ciliate. Panicle 1-3 in., contracted and ovoid 

 Pedic 1 ™ ^^^. °P^^ » branches glabrous or obscurely scaberulous, and as tlie 

 8nd nnV i7!f^ Titriable in length. Spikelets green or purplish, obtuse, smooth 

 tt«ually V *" ^^^'^'"''^ orsetulose; gl. I and II faintly many-nerved ; III and IV 

 Of nnh ^^^^ "'^''q'lal, lH longer, flatter, thinner, shining; IV coriaceous, glabrous 

 c'oselv li™i' °''*''°"la'' or broadiv ellipsoid.— I. mauritiana, Kunth, is a very 

 <<ut.»™ J . ^P^*^"'^' ^^^ *>«8 gl. Ill and IV equal and similar; it is Panicum 

 "^Oi^tm and 6t/lor«»,, Lamk. 



Pedicda s'"^"*^' ^'^''"" ^*'' Ceyl. PI. 104 ; panicle pyramidal, branches longer, and 



preading capillary, spikelets rather smaller.— Ceylon ; Peradeniya, Trimen. 



13 I 



widely c ' **?*^**°®*> -^cM Nov. PI. 68 ; stems very slender prostrate 

 lanceolate ^^^'^^ ^^^ branched below then ascending, leaves small ovate- 

 Of snrpa^ acute margins not or faintly thickened, panicle small contracted 

 Kunth r""^ lax-fld. spikelets J— ^V in., pedicels short tips hardly thickened. 

 Meneritlr"*V, .^- ^' '^'^^ "' ^^k- Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 459 [excl. some syns.). I. 

 I. tninnf?^ r^*"*- F^<^ycl- Suppl. iii. 185 {excl. Syn.) ; Br Prodr. 196. 

 I- adstan, ^'it*^""*^^ ^^"'''- ^'•«'»- "• t- 117, Enicm. PL i. 137, Suppl. 99. 

 11273 T ^?" ^•^- ^^1- 1- polygonoides, Doe/^Z in Mart Fl Bras. ii. 

 *• 139. f. 206^^1 S^^^** ^ stigtnatosa, Griff. NotuL iii. 41, 42, Ic. PI. AsiaL 

 ^•istanB* <?*' J > ^' ^' Panicum ajquatum. Nees ex Steud. I.e. 98. P. 

 ^- ^eneri? J' ^- ^•*- ^- Benjaraini, Steud. L c. 96, ex Miq. I c. 459. 

 ^ot.iiQ.^^'p^enff. SysL i. 321. P. minutulum. Gaud in Freyc. Voy. 



-^'^w* aL i!!r •'■• ^- polygonoides, iam. Enct/cL iv. 742; Z>erne i« 

 ^- '^^ 126 n i • -^'*''- ^ii- 362. P. patens, jBoa;5. >/. Ind. i. 305 ; iTan^^ 

 ^eurachL If ''"'''^- ^^- ■^"^- Or. n. 202. P. gonatodes, Steud. I c. 95. 

 ««rulea vnr ^°®I'^*''*' -^oem. Sr Sch. Syst. ii. 475 (excL syn.). Aira 

 T^w ^%w^.— Isachne, Wall. Gat. n. 8655. 



?^^ 8out^"p^y Sround, from the Sikkim: Terai, Bkngal and Silhbt to Burma 

 '^' Malay anH D ^J^^-^ccA, the NicoBAR Islds., and Ceylon.— Distrib. China, 



Z!"^;s'ieaths I'v ^"'*'' *^^"* '■^''^^y ^-^ '"• ^'g^' "'"^^' "^ ^^^"^ glabrous or 

 «*^'^'ng, nerv f "'^^ o"" sparst ly hairy. Leaves flaccid or rather stiS", usually 

 *f"*«Ztt, as jjj ^'^^8 or nearly so, glabrous or sparsely hairy on both surfaces. 

 !i 1 *nd n 5 ":* "'^t'ralit, but usually smaller, glabrous, rarely sparsely setose ; 

 ?'•"' look very c!rw°^^' ^^^''^^ i IV glabrous or pubescent.— The small states of this 

 »{""»"? interrn»!i- r^°*^ ^'^^^^ typical /. australis, but larger appear to unite them 

 «»? '"^ carefuli'"^- '^"'"en refers J, Meneritana to J. ousfraZi*. Mr. Rendle, 

 7'%^^ that it p.^ compared the types of each in the British Museum, agrees 



^"'^ oest with mi7/aceo. He also informs me that Burman's Thes. 









