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Pani<?um.] clxxiii. graminej;. (J. D. Hooker.) 29 



ixirtim ) ; .Bew^A. PZ. Austral rii. 474. P. brizoides, Jacq. Eclog. Gram, 2, 

 ^•2; Tnn. Diss. ii. 128. ^j9. Gram. Ic, t. 158, 159 ; Ktinth Enum, PL l 78; 



W. i?'/. Jnd. i. 293; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 290 ; Thw. Enum. PL ZeyL 

 d59; Tnw. CaL CeyL PL 159; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 2; Miq. FL Ind. 

 Batm.Ub; Aitchfs. Cat Punjab PL 159 ; Nees Agrost. Bras 115; Baker 

 jLMaurit 433. P. distans, Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 172. P. brizoides, var. 

 aistans, Trin. Ic. t. 159 B. P. Haccidum, Xoen. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 ^. flondum, Royle IlL Bot. HimaL 420. P. granulate, Lam. Ill i. 170, 



t ^mn°* ^^ ^"*^^^ » in watery places from the Pan jab to Assam and Burma, ascending 



o!j'v/.*^' ^^ N^Pi^l ivnd Kumaon, and southward 'to Ceylon.— Distrib. Trop. Asia 

 and Africa. ■ 



is em 1-4 ft^^ compressed, leafy, branched from the decumbent base. Leaves 



tiu^"*^K**' 1 ^^ '^^^ ^^'* linear-lanceolate acuminate, or ligulate with a rounded 

 jj^^'^ ^"*^^"^ couipressed, lower tumid, njouth hairy ; ligule 0. Spikes few or many, 

 eree ' ^^' Spikelets 2-20, very pale, sessile. Glumes membranous, white with 

 Terv *^^'^^^f ' ^^^ neuter or male ; IV sometimes almost orbicular, white or brownish, 

 onil *^^ ^ ^ougb.—The var. distans of Trinius is a depauperate state, and occurs 

 ^:.» ^^/*"^** Pl^nt as the normal. A still more depauperate form, densely tufted, 

 H^.Jj^^^!'y^^ leaves 2-3 in. long and very few spikelets, is Wall. Cat. 8692 D from 

 *ay b ''^ • ^^^^ found in Bengal. Mr. Rendle informs me that the nskme Jlavidum 

 llii ft !^ °^*stake ioY jiaccidumy under which Koenig sent it to Retzius from Herb. 

 ^- -ont. where it is named /accidwm. 



iodes ?' ^'"^*^*^*^«l, Burm. Fl. Ind. 26 ; spikes longer than the inter- 

 patent I ^^^^^'^^^^^rr^^tsetiform, spikelets -aV"! a" i^- plano-convex erecto- 

 3-iierv § ^^^^'^^' g^' I very short truncate, II = about half IV suborbicnlar 

 ovateT Pi ^^^^^^^ ^^ truncate, III ovate acute 3-5-nerved neuter, IV 

 t IHW ^p"^ 7^*^^^^ acuminate granulate. P. fluitans, Betz. Obs. iii. 8 (not 

 I)uh%n^j. ?}' ^^'^' ^- 293 ; Griff. NotuL iii. 25, Ic. PL Asiat 139, f. 231 ; 

 fl 1(U /•!' z . ^^- ^^' 290; Thw. Enum. PL ZeijL 339 ; Trim. CaL CeyL 

 I^oddr ^^^^^**- Gat Panjab. PL 169; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 4, Lidig. 

 Fl Or; 7^' ^' ^' ^^^^'^' Grass. N. Ind. 7 ; Baker FL Maurit. 433 ; Boiss. 

 ^nzoidlT r>\' ^^^» ^^^^^' Syn. Gram. 59; Nees Agrost. Bras. 115. P. 

 211- Wn17 n' ^'""''^ ^^^^^' i^ Naturf. t L Ges. Neue Schrift. iv. (1803), 

 ^allQ^{ Rfi "• ^^^^' ^^V*^ Ca^- n. 1614. P. flnitan s, Her6. Jfarfr, 

 ^^^um Pn/f XT B. P, granulare, Bojer Horf. Maurit. 364. P. mucro- 

 Joides 'k^! ; , • ^P' 4^5 iSVe^rf. Z.c. ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 116. P. paspa- 



*^^ CktloV^^??^'^^^^ India, from the Panjab to Assam, and southwards to Malacca 



r ^erenniaP •^^^^^- Malaya, Mauritius, trop. and N. Africa. 



^*«r interno*d ^"^*^^ glwhrous. Stem 2-4 ft., base floating, rooting at the nodes; 



°**r sheaihs d'W^*^^ stout, spongy. Leaves 4-8 in., linear, acute or acuminate; 

 "^^i^^d, appress d +^^ ' ^^^"^^ ** ""^ ^^ ^^**^^®" '^i^^*^*^ many, ^-1 in., distant, sessile, 

 ^}'^ Stticoth t f ^^^ fe'labrcus rachis, very pale ; rachis about ^V ^n. broad, margin 

 f*^* imbricate • acicular as long as the upper spikelet. Spikelets -^^-^^^ in. 



?:^- Hendlc inf ' ^^*®^^^> ovate-oblong. Glumes membranous, IV as long as III.— 

 i!**. Herb. sloan^\"^ "^^ ^^^^ ^® ^^® examined in the British Museum the specimen 



/*^te same as^P^^ ^^^ figure of which Burman founded P. punctatum, and that 

 ?^ Koenig^ and •^'"^^*^^^> Retz. And further, that the n^me /uitans is a ms. one 



fp^ from* Koen^**^ "^ ^^"^* ^^^^ ^^' ^*™ ^^ ^^^^' ^^*^ ^^^"® ^^"^ ^^ received the 

 ^* fcrmer fDnhr^l A* *'° ^^'® tivaI claims of punciatum nud Jluitans for adoption, 



' ^ui^ans has h d ^^ ^'^^^^ ^** * quarter of century's priority ; but whereas the 



naa more than a century of recognition in all countries, P. punctatum 



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