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Panicum.] CLxxiii. GEAyiXEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 83 



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Burma ; Petroleum wells of the IrawadcH, WalHch. 



\ i^^} ^^^^ ^"" robust and foliage of Crus-galli, nodes pubescent. Leaves 3-5 

 ^M bnely acuminate, ciliate towards the base; sheaths sparsely hairy; ligule 0. 

 i^Tj, ^ ^°-> rachis flattened and angular, much narrower than the spikelets. 

 ftfce^eis erect, imbricate, pale, sparsely silkily pubescent; gls. membranous, I=i 

 JIJ. broadly ovate, obtuse, 3-ncrved ; II ovate, finely beaked, 5-nerved, hirsute ; 

 wifh^r^ ^^^^'y obovate, cuspidately acuminate, the inflexed margins densely ciliate 

 tn long erect hairs ;. awn of IV as long as itself, strict, scabrid.— A very remarkable 

 I ass, with the habit of P. Cfus^galli, but with the rugulose awned gl. IV of 

 7?L.i^™*^"^' ^^*^ Iieuce intermediate between the sections Echinochloa and 



irocAiaria. 



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Sect. III. Beachiaeia. (See p. 27.) 



S^ee P. turgidum in Secfc. Effus^!. 



Gl. I nearly as long as III ; IV shortly awned.. 



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ronni^p/i"^^ ^^^'"**' ^^^'^- ^^^- -Panic. 155; leaves narrow hairy base 

 S'-nerv ^' ^TT ^^^ suberect, spikeleta ^-| in., glabrous, gl. I ovate acute 

 iQinnffi ^^ ^^^^-lanceolate acuminate 7.-nerved, III epaleate, IV oblong 

 Minn ^^^l^^^s^' S^^^ Syn. GranK&l. P. infidum, Trim. Gat, Geyl PL 

 Bur^MT^J^'^ P. javanicum, Thw. Enum. PL ZeyL 358. P. sanguinale, 

 Hs^rih ; oi n . ^' ^^' ^- 2- (non deacr.). Urochloa paspaloides, Presl BeL 



r* ^^ ^''''*-^'^ ^""^^ ^'''''^' ^^- ^' ''^- 



5i8TBfTrij ^^''^'> G^^#^^* Ceylon, Gardner, Thwaites (CP. n. 858, 3244). 



• Puberulou ^^*-*-~2 f*^-> slender, much branched from the base; nodes glabrous 

 ciliate . li^-,'' iieavc* 3-6 by ^-J in., acuuiinute ; sheaths glabrous or margins 

 8^«*»rou8 or -f] ^^ ^^^^^' 'fHpihes 3-4, 1-2 in. ; racliis slender, triquetrous, 



^^^^l palea f tv* *^^ ^^'^ ^^ *'^® nodes. Spikelets 2-8eriate, alternate, sub- 

 SQbequal e-lq T ^ t^^^^ g^Qen nerves; awn of IV concealed by II and III.— The 

 section p ' I ^^^ ^^^1 distinguish this from all other species of the Brachiaria 

 ^"^^ Wrieties^^ ^^^^^* ?^^' ^ ^^ Notar. is a very different plant. Presl describes 

 '^ g'umea subffi ^ 'U ^^^^^PP^^^sr a lower gL hardly half as long as the others; 



quilong. I have seen no Indian or other snecimens answerinc: to a. 



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i „ .; ^^^^ shorter than III : IV often abruptly apiculate. 

 5 Spikelets ^v m. 



^^Hba'sfb?**/**^™'.^"'"'^- I^^^^tf- ^' m, Encycl. iv. 745; leaves 

 "'^^ei'ect rnoV- ^^P^exicaul and slieaths ciliate^ spikes usually crowded 

 f^owded's^u:^^^*"gooo«s, i)edicels with long cilia, spikelets ^VtV in. 

 V'^^h 11 ovaf ii-3-seriate ellipsoid glabrous, gl. I very short semi- 



r*« iniQatpI^ ^^^*® 5-7-nerved, III 5-nerved paleate, IV obovate apicu- 

 1184, l85.^^S"}°8e. Trin. Diss. ii. 150, Panic. Gen. 158, Sp. Oram. Ic. 



S*- ^num ij'^'i^ ,^««'«- I'l- i- 8&, ^«p«Z. 68 ; /S'^e«i. Syn. Oram. 62 ; 

 xfl^O; D^ln-'^^y^' 359; Trim. Cat.^Ceyl. PL 105; Aitchis. Gat. Pan jab. 

 fM- U if .^''**- ^•^- -f"^- 6, /»(fw. i^orfrf. Grass, t. 45, Fodd. Grass. 

 i^^'^-itum T^.- ^^- ^^stral.yii. 476 ; Griseh. Fl Brit. W. Ind. 640. 

 fiJ.P'^spuni 'ri^'^if^str. I.e. P. Gffispitosum, Stc. Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 146. 

 '^m B. p ^'^"<'.-' Fragment. 42. P. hirsutum. 5eywe ex Wall. Cat. n. 

 ^OL. vtt" ^^'gittatum, Vahl ex Herb. Rottl. et U WaU. Cat. n. 8732 



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