30 CLxxiii. GRiMiNEX (J, D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



baa never till now been recognized, nor could it bare been from Burman's description 

 only. UndtT these circunistancca, and taking into consideration the facts, that Retz 

 described two ditferent plants under the name o^ JIuitanSy and that punctatum has 

 been applied to no other species, I have adopted the latter. 



4. P. paBpaloides, Pers. 8t/n. i. 81 (paspalodea) ; spikes erect 

 longer than the internodes, spikelets aS^V i^- erecto-patent subglobose 

 glabrous, gl. I very short suborbicular retuse, II nearly = IV strongly 

 5- nerved tip rounded, III broadly ovate acute 5-nerved paleate neuter, IV 

 oblong subacute nearly smooth. Kunth Enum, PI, i, 77 ; Trin. Pan. Gen. 

 153, Wall Cat. 8691 ('m part) ; Stead. Syn. Gram. 60 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, v. 

 436. P. affine, Nees Agrost. Bras, 113, P. appressura, Doell in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. II 184. P. beckmanniseforoae, Mikan ex Trin, in Spreng. Neue 

 Entdeclc. ii. 83; Spreng. Syst. i. 309. P brizseforme, Presl Rel. Raenlc. 

 3()2; Steud. I.e. 60. P. brizoides, Lamh.Ill. i. 170 {not Trin. or Jacq). P. 

 carnosum, Saltzm. ex Steud. L c. P. fltiitans, Retz. Ohs. v. 18; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 455. P. numidianum, Sieb. ex Schult. Mant. ii. 267 

 {not Lamk.). P. triincatum, Trin. Diss. ii. 130, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 168 

 {not t. 172). Paspalum adpre&sum, Pers. Syn. i. 85 ; Rich, ex Lamk. I. c- 

 176. Digitaria affinis, Poem, and Sch. Syst. ii. 470. 



KcMAOJf, Sirachey ^ Winterhottom, alt. 5000 ft. Upper Gangetic Plaipt ; 

 Delhi, Clarke. Bukdelkund, Duthie. Scind, the Cong an, Malabar and 

 Tranquebar, Heyne, &c. Cexlon, Walker^ &c. — Distkib. Affghanistan, Arabia, 

 Atric. ttud Amer, trop. 



Perennial, stem glabrous ; prostrate, usually floating below and rooting at the 

 nodes. Leaves spreading, linear, acaminate acute or obtuse, lower sheatbs dilated. 

 Spikes J-1 in., appreased to the narrow, compressed, setulose rachis. Spikelets 

 subsessile, tnrgid. iSlumes nacmbranous. — Habit of P. pundatumy wbich it closely 

 re»enibles, but differs in the rat his of tbe spikes not produced at tbe tip with a few 

 imperfect terminal spikelets, in the size of gl. II, in paleate III, and smooth IV. — • 

 P. brizoides^ Lamk., is the earliest name, but it has been so promiscuously applied 

 that it is better abHudoned. 



Sect. II. EcHiNOCHLOA. (See p. 27.) 



5. P- Crus-gralli, X/«n. Sp. PI. 56; stem erect, leaves linear flat 

 glabrous or scabernlous, raceme contracted or pyramidal, spikes many 

 2-^1- in. often secund simple or saboomponnd, rachis setulose, spikelets 

 ^^^-^ in. (excl. ami) s^lbglobose hispid or scabrid rarely glabrous, gl. I =- 

 \~l 111 acute 3-5-nerved, 11 = 111 mucronate or shortly awned, III 

 paleate male or neuter awned, awn short or long rigid scabrid, IV ovoid 

 obtuse or ctippidate and palea coriaceous sbining white. PI. Dan. t. 852, 

 &\. 1561- ; Tlost Gratn. Am^tr, ii. 15, t. 19; PJncycL Bot. t. 276; Knapp 

 Gram. Britt. t. xi. ; Reichh. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 29; THn. Sp. Gram. Ic. 

 t. 161, 162; Wall. Cat. n. 8687 {exrl. I.); Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 359 



{excl. Syn. rolonum); Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 104; Ditthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 3, 

 Indig. Eodd. Grass, t. 5, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 4; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 464 ; Bcnih. FL Hongk. 411, FL Ai(%iral. vii. 479 ; Boiss. Fl Orient, v. 435; 

 Franch. SfSav.En.Pl Jap. ii. 160; Griseh. Fl Brit W. Ind. oi6. P. 

 Burmanni, Bieb. FL Taur. Cane. iii. 57, ex Link. Hart. Berol i. 204. P- 

 corvipes, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. i. 141. P. digitatum, Gilib. Exercit. 517. 

 P. dubium, Sieb. ex Steud. Nam. Ed. II, ii. 256, Syn. Gram. 46. P. echina- 

 tum, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol 1032; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 162; Jarq. 

 Eclog. Gram. ii. 28, t. 20. P. hirtellum, Wall Fl Carol 72. P. hirti- 



