28 cLxxiii. QRi^MiNE-K. (J. D. Hooker.) IPanicum. 



II. Branchlets of panicle often produced heyond the tetmivtal spiheletinto 

 a rigid awn-like bristle. a .^trw^* j^S" 



Sect. VII. PTTCHOPHYLLUM.NSpifcele^j solitary, seaaile or pedicelled on 

 the slender branches o£ a decompouad open panicle. Leaves plicate. (See 

 also Setaria Forbesiana.) {8p. 48, 49.) f - ^5^ 



B. Spitelets strongly laterally compressed. 



"^ecLVIII. GiBBOS.B. Spikelets very minute, panicled; gl. IV semi- 

 lunar. Perennial very slender grasses. {Sp, 50-54.) p.5V 



*^ect. IX. PsEUDECHiNOtiiENA. Spikelets rather large, distant, snbsessile 

 on a slender simule or soarincrlv divided rachis. often erlandular. iSp- 55.) 



r 



Sect. I. Paspaloide^. (See p. 27.) 



1. P. Zsaclmey Both Nov, Sp. 54; spikes many longjer than the 

 internodes, apikelet-* ^\ in. snberect oblong acute villous, gl. I minute, II 

 and III equal faintly 3-nerved, II = IV, III paleafce empty, IV oblong 

 rounrled at both ends quite smooth. Boem. & ScJi. S^sL ii. 458 ; SchuU, 

 Afanf. ii. 252 ; Kunth Enum. PI i. 97; Steicd. Syn. Gram., 57. P. ernci- 

 forme, Sihth. FL Grsec i. t. 59 ; Sihth. & Sm. Prodr. FL Grsec, i. 40 ; 

 Bo^m. & Sch. I c. 426 ; Kuntk I c. 78 ; Thw. Enum PL Zeyl 359 ; Trim. Cat. 

 Ceifl PL 104; Duthie Grass. N,W. Tnd. 3, Ind!g. Fodd. Grass, t- 43, Fodd. 

 Grass, JV. 2nd. 6 ; Baker Ft Maurit. 434 ; Parlat, Fl. ItaL \ 119 ; Boiss, 

 FL OrienL v. 437. P. Koenij?ii, Rerb. Wight ex Nee8 FL Afr. Austr. 30. 

 P. cancasicum, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 6 (1835) iii. '237, Sp. 

 Gram. Ic. t. 262, Panic. Gen. 149: Steud I.e. P. Cms Qalli, Boxh. ex 

 Wight Cat.u, 1616 {non Fl. Ind.) P. pubinode, Hochst. em A. Bich. Tent. 

 FL Abyss, ii. 363; Sieitd. I.e. 57. P. Wightianum, Am. & Nees. ex Nees 

 m. Afr. Austr. 30. P. Wightii, Nees I.e. 29; Trin. Pan. Gen. 148; 

 Steud. I. c. 58. Brachiaria emciformis, Griseh. in L^deb FL Boss. iv. 469. 

 Echinochloa emciformis, Beichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 29; G. Koch, in 

 Linnfea, xxi. (1848) 437.— Panicum, Wall. Gat. n. 8693. 



Plains of Iitdia ; in watery places, from Kupbrnir, alt. 6000 ft., and tlie Panjab, 

 to Bengal, and soathward to Ceylon, — Distrib. Westward to Italj and N. 

 Africa. 



Stems 1-2 ft., slender, ascending from a decumbent base, much branched ; nodes 

 often bearded. Leaves 1-2J in. by \-\ in., glaucous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 flat, glabrous or softly hairy, base rounded ; moutb of sheath with long hairs. Spikes 

 8-12, i-1 in, long, erect or sulnsrect; rachis narrower than the spikelets, ciliate. 

 Spikelets subsc^sile, very pale; gls. membrauous, I cordate ; II about | shorter than 

 IV, which is white. 



2. P. flavidum^ Betz. Obs. iv. 15; spikes erect shorter than the 

 internodes, spikelets ^g-^V '^- divaricate giboously globose glabrous, gl. I 

 = about \1H suborbicular 3-nerved, II nearly = tv 7-nerTed tip rounded, 

 III oblong obtuse 3-5-nerved paleate neuter, IV broadly ovate cuspidate 

 reticulately punctulate. Br. Prodr. 190; Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 211, t. 17, 

 Enum. PL i, 78. Supph 60; THn. Panic. Gen. 151; Nees Agrod. 

 Bras.xi. 116; Griff. NotuL iii. 33, Ic. PL AsiaL t. 139, fig. 67; Duthie 



Grass. N.W.Ind.^, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. vV, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 7: 



Wight Cat. n. 1613, & Herb. n. 3069: WalL Cat n. 8692 (ezcl B, & B 



