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Panicum.] clxxiii. gbamine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 31 



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calycinum, Steud. Norn. Ed. 11, ii. 257. P. hispidulum, Lamh. Encycl. iv. 

 744 («on Bd.); Eetz Obs. v. 18; Roxb.Fl. Ind. i, 303 {/Id. Ic. Pict.);' Wall. 

 Ut.8688 A.; Wig/ii Cat. n. 2042 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 47 ; Franch. & Sav. 

 '■c. 160. P. hispidum, J'orsi. P/-o^r. 7 ; Nees Aqrost. Bras. 257. P. horri- 

 aum, Sai<zj». ex Steud. I.e. 47. P. Hosti, Bieb. I.e. P. limosum, Fred 

 «! Neea I.e. P. longisetum, Torr. in Am. Journ. So. Ser. I iv. (1822) 58. 

 i". mirabile, Braun Del. Sent. Sort. Carhruhe (1846), P. muricatum, 

 ^"•hx Fl.Bor.Am. i. 47. P. orjzinum, Gmel. Syst. i. 157; A. Braun in 

 M. Sen. Hort. Berol. 1851. P. pilosum, Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 

 171 ■^.^^bi'icolum, Nees Agrost. Bras. 258. P. scabrum, LamJc. III. i. 

 n ', V^^* C'aif. n. 1648; Steud. I. c. 47. P. stagniaum, Betz. Obs. v. 17 ; 

 0Q° ,/""*• ^^*^'*- iii- t. 51 ; Keen, in Naturf. I. c. ; lloxb. Fl. Ind. i. 



w\,X^^'^ ^"^*' ^-c- 26; Griff. Notul. iii. 17; Wall. Gat. n. 8688; 



*iTi Gat. n. 1649. P. Walteri, Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. i. 66. Oplis- 

 pf "^ *i,™8-galli, Dum. Obs. Gram. Belg. 138; Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 44, 

 ^, -"V '• 1- 143 ; Sost I. c. ii. t. 19 ; Trin. Sv. Gram. Ic. t. 161 ; Bah. Sf 

 m n '^ •, ^^- 292. O. Crus-pavonis, H. B. &. K. Nov. Gen. & Sjp. i. 

 ^rw » 7 "''^"^' ^^"^^ ^^"- Gram. I 44, Enum. i. 143. O. limosiis, 

 p '. 7f'- S^nlc. i. 321 ; JTmw^/^ Enum. l 114. 0. longisetus, FuntA 

 £'!• Y''^J>}- ^■<'- 0. muricatue, Kunth I.e. 44. O. sabulicolu?, Funth 

 p„,; /■ ^ ^- scaber, Kunth Bev. Gram. I 44. O. stagninus, Kunth 



£/ ;« """• ^•'"•■' ^«^^- <^ ^^'^*- ^- ^- ; ^^^^-/i^"*- C'«'!- Punjab PI. 161; 

 £6o«," y ^chiDochloa commutata, ;S'c>^m/#. Jf««^. ii. 267. E. Cruscorvi, 

 JfZS .7?*^- ^^- ^- Crus-galli, Beauv. I. c. ; T. Necs Gen. Fl. Germ. 

 i 47Q p v" "^^ ' ■''^^^^i*- -fc. FZ. Germ. t. 29. E. ? dubia, lioem & Sch. Syst. 

 416 420 ^P^^*' 'S'c'iwZ^. Z. c. E. hispidula, Nees in Royle ill. Bot. Himal. 

 POffonO ' ^"-{^-^Giha. I.e. Suppl 98. E. ^iagr^ina.,' Beauv. I.e. Ortlio- 

 & lat; ?1^^ ^ '^ ^^*^"' Spreng. Syst. i. 307. Ischajmum abbreviatum 



Triiu p ™; -^'^'■*- -S^"^"- «« ^«^^- C'a^- n. 8688. Digitaria hispidula. 

 , • i^num. Hort. Berol. 91. Milium Crus-galli, Moench. Meth. 202. 



*^^»trie8^ India, especially la wet places and rich soils — Distrib. all warm 



liranebed ' ^ ^^ J~3 ft., stout or slender, erector decumbent below, simple or 

 *~^^D-i U8U if^^'^^ .^' ^P ^^ ^" i"ch broad, glabrous or Lairy ; ligule 0. Raceme 

 shorter' erect ^ ^"^^'"^*U '^J' drooping. Spikes sessile or subset^sile, upper gradually 

 ^Qrgid ! I ^^^^jto-patent or rarely decurved. Sjpikelets densely packed in 3-5 rows, 

 times Ij in lo "^^'"^^ 5 II and III subequal, usually 5-nerved, awn of III some- 

 ''^^eties of'p * r ' from orbicular to broadly oblong. — Auiougst the innumerable 

 t^^ir liinitat*' ?,'?*^^^*> I ^"d it impossible to find characters constant enough for 

 *"cAloa qiah^^' exceptional states one with almost glabrous spikes is Echi- 



^""ich's u St*^' (Munro mss.) ; it has large spikelets and cuspidate gis. It is 

 KhaMaHi]|g A \ ^" ^* ^' ■^•> ^"d ^'^^ ^^^^^ collected in the Western Himalaya, 

 ^' 8688 D ^^.^^^^^'^where. Another is hchaemuw. ^labrescens, Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 

 'P*HandWl 1 ^^^^ nearly as tbick as the little finger, solitary or 2-nate 



P^*^B is a tb H -^ Y^^^ tubercle-based bristles. Thwaites CP. 900 and 3237, from 

 m^' ^ mir }1^ i^^ ^^^y broad leaves, and the rachis of tbe spikes is yillously 

 jP^Wteaud Braun, is a remarkable plant, with 3.fld spikelets, the lower 



*nortj twned^^^t^^' ^^^ ^PP^r hermaphrodite. Some forms with cuspidate, very 

 1' ^* lot unlike] ^^*>^^*^^ pass into P. coZoni/m, through var. frumentaccum, and 

 r^'^aferred to P i ^^"^*' ^^ ^*^® synonyms placed under P, Crus-galli should be 



r^" densely or ^r*!^^' t^^^> robust, spikes thickenfd incurved sometimes corymbose 

 ^^y Soxb FiT^ unawned spikelets, otherwise as P. Crus-galli. P. frumenta- 



■^^«*ii.]32. \v n ■ ^^^'' -^'^^w^*- -^«"^. 5i- 230; Trtn. -Sjp. Gram. Ic. t. 164; 

 fe;^y t . nail. Cat, n. 8686; Wight Cat. n. 1()I7 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 4, 





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