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Panieum,] clxxiii. geaminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 35 



^leares long, base subcordi.te, panicle deltoid glabrous, spikes alternat<\ 

 *!*_ 1^ f^'"'""^ flattened, spikelets | in. crowded ovoid acute glabrous, gl. 

 1 \ ^^^ ovate acute 1-nerved, II and III subequal 5-nerved, III 

 paleate_male, IV ellipsoid obtuse margins narrowly incurved. Schult. 

 ■Mant.n. 225; Kunth Enum. PL i. 93 ; Steiid. Syn. Gram. 40. P. amphi- 

 .Jum, bteud. I.e. 61 ; Zoll. PL Bar. Jav. 416. P. barbinode, Trin. Gram. 



7 ft7 ^' '^P' ^'^'^- -^«- ^- 31^; 2'^^^- -E;««m. PI Zeyl. 361; Sleud. 

 '^f'bj ; JJuthie Oras.«. N.W. Ind. 2. P. equinum, Saltzm. ex Steiid. I.e. 



1 ly^^^^' ^^^^- -P^- Egt/pt exsicc. ; Link. Hort. Berol. i. 206 ; Sfeud. 

 t% /• Meyeriannm, Neex FL Afr. Austr. i. 32; Steud. I. c 61. P. 

 "loue. GriseJ. FL Brit. W. Ind. 547 (e.uc;. Syn.) non Sw.; Baker Fh 



m" 100 ' ^^*""'- ^**- <^«y^- -P^- 105 (non <S'w.). P. nuraidiannra, Lamk. 

 f Vr a; ^'^^- ^^- '"^^5 ^^s/ ^^- ^^^ctw?^. i. «0, t. 11 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. 

 Vet' ,:^- ^- '^•^^^'^ ^<^ell- '^ Mo,rL Fl. Bra.^. ii. 11. 187. P. pictiglume, 



57 p 



'mnli; ^'^^^entosnm, ITa-M^b. PZ. J"av. Bar 17 {non Eoxb.). Paspalurn 



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\*^?^?™' ^«^'^A Z. c. 47; ^#^2^d Z.c. 31. Digitaria mauritiana, TFaZ/. 

 • Uc. i» ^e^5^ -BTeto).— Panicum, Wall Cat. n, 8724. 



Africa^A^^ "^*^ Cetion, in marshes, cultivated or naturalized.— Disteib. Java, 



ly glabrescent. Leaves 



short, ciliate. Panicle 



stout, simple or dividetl 



broad subhispid. Spike* 



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Purplish. 1 !.*^"^^""™e8 solitary and alternate throughout the spike, green or 

 ^'"^ Ceylon j J^^^^^^^^y dotted or roughened.— Tho Water-grass of the Mauritius 

 *^^^iei« itn \l v"^ ^^' ^^^ ^^ *^® always male, but being doscrihed as neuter by 

 ^^^ the A* • ^^^'^^^ in this respect, as do so many other Fanica. It is very 

 names give *T^'*^ ^' '^^^^^' ^^•» ""^ 'S ^^^C" confounded with it, and the Englisli 

 Pellicle ann/ "P**'^ *^ ^^^^- It is distinguished from P. woZee by the glabrous 

 :'^^ 1-uerved (not S-nerved) gl, I. . 



W Wfl*^****®""*' -P^^'^- -^^f^cL S«;)pZ. iv. t. 274; pubescent or 



'^riateal?; *^ rounded or cordate, spikes 6-12, spikelets i-h in., bi- 

 ^^7.nerveTf"T;'PP^^^'^**^®''^^o^ate acute, gl. I not = i II 3-neryed, 

 '^^Tiptlv o ^^", ' ^^ '^^6 1^1 S-nerved paleate, IV ol'long rugnlose shortly 

 Helopas T^- ■• ^'''"''- -P"^- <?««• 155 ; Baker Fl. Maurlt. 434. P. 

 * ^83- Wt*"*"-/" ^i'^-ewy. iV. Entdech. ii. 84, Pa;'. G^e». 150, Sp. Oram. Ic. 

 ^•^'liy I T^IP'*- ^''''^- ll''; Steud. Syn. Gram. 7; Butliie Gra^s. 

 ^^)' Bet'fliv' ^^'^'^- ^^'^^''- ^- '^,FodiL Grass. N. Ind. 8 {excL some 

 ^B^^i'icmn ?■ 1" ^"*"^^'^^- ^ii- 476 (m «o^e). P. iaponicum, en-ur for 

 ^°«^. -F7 V ■J^-^'o ^^^"^"-f- (Jz-fiw. i. 205. in syn. P. birsutum, ivocM. ex 

 l^^^m'J^i'- ^^^' * 1%^^ Cat. n. 1620; iiic/i/s. r7a;. Panjab. PL ].59. 

 •T^^^PaloiL ■^"S'- *V«. i. 311. P. papillosum, i^'ewzZ er Steud. I.e. lOO. 

 Mo^"'^ / r qZ • -^ei/«e, ea- WalL Cat. n. 8729. P repens. Herb. Boxb. 

 V^) 2.54" n iV "^l A (7ion i'Y. Ind.). P. tricbopus, 7/oc/^s<. in Flora, xxvii. 

 B^-ASr/i I .^.^""*^'' hirsntua, ;Sr/^M?^ JUant. ii. 271. 0. iavanicna, 

 ?'^ria? KiroT'-^-S*-^!- Helopus tricbopus, ^ocA.vif. ex Steud. Lc. lOlt. 

 i™?. Ci! • '^"^""''^ ^'^"**'- ^'-^^i- i- 47, i^//«m. PL i. 157. S. pilifera, 

 ^^'i-1- ji;!n,"''- P""'*- 33. Urocbloa pauicoules. i?m7iw. ArjrosL bi, 



, ' ^««'A i. c. i. 205, t. 14, ^»i«m. 74 {excL Syn. Bvxb.); Schu/t. 



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