32 CLXxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) IPanieum. 



Field it Gard. Crops 3, t. 24, Fadd, Ora-fu N. Ind. 8 ; Franck. ^ Sav, En. PI Jap> 

 ii. 161. F.Crus.pHUi, Wall, Cat. n. 8687, C. G. P. Crus-galli, var, frumentaceura 

 Trim. Cat, CeyL PL 104. P. grossutn, Salisb. Prodr. 18. P. segeUle, Hcrh. ^oxh. 

 OplisineauB frumeataceus, Kunth Revis, Gram, i. 45, Enum. PL u 146 ; Dalz. ^ 

 Gih$. Bomb, Fl, Supph 98. Echinochloa frumentacea, Link Enum. Bort, BeroL i. 

 204; Aitchxs. Cat Panjab PL 161; Miq, FL Ind. Bat. iii. 465.- Cultivated in the 

 hotter parts of Asia aud Africa. — Roxburgh (FL Ind. I.e.) says of P. hispidulum, 

 which is undoubtedly referable to P. Crus-galli^ ** it conies very near my P. /rumen- 

 taceutUj and may probably be the same in its wild state.'' 



6. F. colonum, Linn. St/st. Ed. x. 870; stem ratber slender decum- 

 bent or shortly creeping below, leaves narrow scaberulous, raceme contracted, 

 Bpikes suberect 1-1^ in. xisuaDy distant, rachis pilose, sp'kelet? ^-i in- 

 acute orsubcnspidate glabrous or hispidulous, gl. 1 = ^ 111 or shorter acute 

 3-5-nerved, II and III subeqnal acute, III paleate, IV ovoid or oblongobtuse 

 or acute and palea coriaceous white. Jacq. Eclog, Gram. t. 32; Ehret, 

 Ic, SeL t. 3, f. 3 ; Beauv, Agrost. t. x. f. 6 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic, t. 160 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 46; Wall. Cat. n. 8685; Trim, Cat Cei/L PL 104; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 3, Indig, Fodd. Grass, t. 4, Fodd, Grass, N, Ind. 

 4; Benth. Fl. Hoi^gJc. 411, FL Austral, vii. 478 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 435 ; 

 Franch. ^ Sav. En. PLJap.il 160; Griseb. Fl Brit, W. Ind.Hb. P. 

 arabicum,2V^ces ex Steud. Norn. Ed. II, ii. 251, S;^n. Gram. 63. P. brizoides, 

 Linn. Mant. i. 184. P. caesium, A'ee.v in Hook. ^ Am. Bat. Beech. Voy. 

 235; Steud. I.e. 47. P. confertum. Herb. Rotil, ex Wall. Gat, n. b687 B. 

 P. Cras-Ralli, Wall. Gat. n. 8687 I ; var. colonum, Cass. Expl. Alger, 28 ; var. 

 minor, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 369. P. cuspidatnm, Boxb. FL Ind. i. 298; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 3; Steud. I.e. ; Fig. ^ de Not, in. Mem. Acad. 

 Tor. (1854) 340, t. xiii. f. 1-16. P. Daltoni, Parlat. ex Webb in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 186; Steud. I. c. P. flaccidum, H'all. Ca<. n. 8692 H {in part). 

 P. grossaritim. Griff. Notul iii. 36, Ic. PL Asiat. t. 139, f. 113. P. 

 haematodes, Presl Fl. Sic. i. 43 ; Steud. I, c. P. numidianum. Presl 

 Gyp. 4" Gram,. Sic. 19. P, Petiveri, Kotsch. ex Griseh. Fl. Brit. W. 

 Ind. 545. P. pictnm, Koin. in Naturf. xxiii. (1788) 204; Wight Cat. 

 n. 1648; Nees in Mart Fl. Bras. ii. 120? P. Pseudo-colonxim, Both 

 Nov. Sp. 147 ; Steud, l. c. 46. P. semiverticillatnm. Herb, Rottl. (non 

 Eoitl. in Ainsl. Mat. Med.). P. tetrasticlmm, ForsJc. FL .Jf^g- 

 Arab. 19. P. zonale, Presl Prodr. Fl. Sic. i. 82. Oplismenns colonus, 

 H. B ^ K. Nov. Gen. Sf Sp. i. 108 ; Xunth Envm. PL 1. 142 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 291; Aitchis. Cat Punjab PL 161. O.P cuspidatus, Funth 

 Pevis. Gram. i. 45, Enum. i. 147. 0. Psendo-colonns, Kunth LI. c. 44, 142. 

 Di^itaria? cuspidata, Schult. Mant, ii. 265. — Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8694, 

 8726.— S'/oawe Hist. Jam. i, t. 64, f. 3. 



Throughout India and Ceylon, ascending the Himalaya to 6000 ft. — Distbib. 

 all warm countries. 



In its typical form P. col(mum differs from Crus-galli by the characters given 

 above, but there is a gradual transition of one into the other ; and the cultivated 

 var. ^rufneniaceum has been assigned to both, having the nnawned spikelets of the 

 former, and the broad leaves robust habit and long crowded spikes with crowded 

 spikelets of the latter. I find it very difficult in many cases to decide whether to 

 refer certain specimens to the one or to the other, and am not at all confident that 

 the synonymy of the two is in all cases right. Both Cosson and Thwaites regard 

 colonum as a form of Crus-galli. 



7. P. notablle, Hook. /. ; spikes mncb longer than the internode?, 

 rachis scabrid, spikelets i in, 2-3-seriate silkily hairy, gl. II subaristatelj 



