36 CLXiiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



Mant iix. 595. U. piibescens, Kunth 1. 1, c. 31, 74. U. mauritiana, Sojer 

 Eort Maurit. 363.— Panicum, 6^?. Wall. Gat n. 8729. 



Plains of India, from Kashmir to Bengal, and southward to Cbyloit,— Disteib. 

 Tropics generally. 



Annnal. Stem 1-2 ft., decnmbent and rooting below, nodes pubescent. Leaves 

 1-5 by i-^ in., flat or undulate, very variable in breadth and form of base, lanceolate, 

 acuminate and loose sheath laxly hairy; ligule a beard. Spikes |-2 in, long, secund, 

 spre-adiug; rachis 3-gonous, pubescent and with a few long hairs. Spi^elets i ii^m 

 geminate or upper solitary, usually pubescent, pale ; pedicels very short ; gl. I acute 

 or obtuse; HI male, palea oblong; IV rounded at the tip. — Kunth (Revis. Gram. i. 

 206) says, under Urochloa pamcoides, that he has examined in Desfontaine 3 

 Herbarium the type of Poiret's P. javanicum, and identified it, which he cites as a 

 Byn. of Urochloa panicoides, but his figure of which again quite accords with a 

 narrow-leaved form of P. Helopus, Trin. This requires the adoption the name 

 javanicum (by misprint Ja;?onicum in Kunth Revis.), for the species. Bentham, oa 

 the other hand (Fl. Austral, yii. 477), says that Munro has seen an authentic speci- 

 men of javanicum, and that it is quite distinct from P. Selopus. I have no means 

 of verifying either authority. 



12. P. ramOftum, Linn. Mant. i. 29 ; suberect, glabrous or pubescent, 

 leaves amplexicaul, spikes many often crowded suberect, rachis scabrid 

 and hairy, spikelets x\j-| in- 1-2-seriate elliptic ovoid or obovoid glabrous 

 or pubescent, gl. I = ^ III ovate 3-5-nerved margins overlapping, H 

 7-nerved, III •5-7-nerved neuter, palea narrow, IV subobovoid apiculate 

 transversely ru^ulose. Kunth Enum. PI. i, 125 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 97 i 

 Wall Cat n. 8727 A. P. arvense, Kunth Revis. Gram. ii. 391, t. 109; 

 Enum. PI. i. 93 ; Steud. L c. 67. P. aquariornm, Bansium & quinqnan- 

 gulare, Ham. ex Walt Cat n. 8727 C, 8725 A. B. P. canescens, Wight 

 Cat n. 1622 {non RothX P, auitans. Herb. Heyne ex Wall Gat.n. 8727 B. 

 P.grossarium, Eoen. in Natuif. xxiii. (1788)' 205 (& Hey7te & Boxb. in 

 Herb. Banks). P. Kotschyanum, Hochst in Flora xxv. (184-2) Beibl. i. 33; 

 Steud. Lc. 68- P. nudiglume, Hochst tc. xxvii. (1844) 33; Steud. l.c- 

 P. Petiverii, Trin. Diss. ii. 144, Pan. Gen. 171, Sp.^Gram. Ic. t. 176 A.B.; 

 Eunih Enum. PL i. 91 ; Nees Jgrost Bras. Ill ; Steud. t c. ; Wight Gat 

 n. U22,Herb. n. 1628, in part, & n. 3226 ; Aitehia. Cat Panjab PL 160; 

 Duihie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 11; Boiss. Fl Orient. 

 V. 439. P. psilopodium, Keen, ex Trin. Pan. Gen. 217. P. semiverti- 

 cillatum, Wight Gat. n. 1125. P. umbrosum, JSetz. Obs. iv. 16; Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. i. 297, 7c. pict 103, 797.— Panicum, Wait Cat n. 8725 A. B. 8727 

 A. B. C and D. in part. 



Plains of India, from Scind and the N.W. Provinces to Behar and southward to 



Madras. — DisxuiB. Affghan. 



Annual ? Stem 1-3 ft., decumbent and branched below ; branches erect, leafy* 

 Leaves 3-4 by ^ -1 in,, lanceolate, acuminate, thin, glabrous or pubescent, base 

 rounded and usually deeply lobed, margins minutely ciliolate ; sheath gltibrous or 

 pubescent, mouth usually ciliate ; ligule short. Panicle 2-6 in., inclined, oblong* 

 glabrous or pubescent ; rachis angular. Spikes 1-2 in., erecto-patent, rather distant, 

 sometimes divided at the base. Spikeleis alternate, close or distant, often in pairs 

 a sessile and poilicelled, pale green or yellowish, turtjid ; pedicel usually with long 

 cilia. — I think this is certainly P. umhrosum, Retx & Roxb. 



^ 13. P. setlgreram^ Betz. Obs. iv. 15 ; leaves ovate-lanceolate with lotig 

 cilia towards the amplexicaul base margins below icrenulately wrinkled? 

 spikes alt* mate, pedicels with scattered long hairs, spikelets | in. biseriate 

 alternate imbricate subscssile ovate acuminate glabrous or pubescent, gl- ^ 



