Panicum.'] clxxiii. GRAMiNEiS. (J. D. Hooker.) 37 



= 1 III obtuse 3-nerved, II ovate-lanceolate acuminate 7-nerTed, III 5- 

 nerved neuter, palea as broad acuminate, IV broadly oblong mucronate or 

 Bhortly awned finely rugulose. Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 299 ; Eunth Enum. PL 

 ^^ (^<'l- some S i/ns .) ; Jferb. Ham. ex Wall. Gat. n. 8730 B. P. affine, 

 fZ'o,^^^- ^^PP^- ^^- 273 {ex Kunih). P. grossarium, Boxh. Ic. Ined. 

 . i«ir^/^- ^'"^•^- ^- Helopus, Trm. (birsutum, Koen.), Wight Gat. 

 a. Ib20. P. lanceolatum, Ilcb. Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8730 A. P. 

 nutans^ Serb. Bottl. P. prostratum, forma major, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 

 ^y. r. ^prostratum, var. horizontale, Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PI 105. P. 



Wight ex Wall. Cat. n. 8730 C. P. subcordatum, Herb. 



Edgew. in 



™ ea; Wall. Gat. 8730 D. P Opiismenus prostratus, 



gjy- ■^«»- Soc. vi. (1862) 195.— Panicum, Wall. Gat. n. 872 



Bbnga 



I"; common. 



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TAi/,.,;* ''7^'^''"""""^* The CoNCAN and South Deccan, Rottlery &c. Cetlon, 



^f^^aiies (C.P. 3236). 



W • ti ^ ' slender, prostrate and widely straggling below ; lower internodes 

 marcinr • mooting, tomentose. Leaves 3-5 by ^-li in., finely acumiDate, flat, 

 J»arrina r 1^^ wrinkled below, or to beyond the middle; sheath with ciUate 

 angles of \r ^ ^^^ ^^^'*®' ^^'^^^^ ^-6, suberect or spreading, rather distant ; 

 toinate -^Tt • ^^ scaberulous. Spikelets solitary or geminate, suberect, very acu- 

 ^anie afctfl 1 ^A ^^^^^^'^^^^ to recognize this species from Retz*s description, but the 

 ^oubt as to h' *^^i *^^^^ (different specimens in Rottler's Herbarium leaves little 

 *oo(ly fA«. ^^ plant. Roxburgh describes setigernm as having the stem almost 

 %eworth -f ^^^ ^*?®* ^^^^^ ^® hardly the case in the specimens I have seen. 

 ^douKf^ vr®/"* se%erttm, Roxb., for his Opliamenus prostmtusy but it may well 



Var TL * ^"^^"^ Roxburgh's plant. 



• owflntoswwj leaves 6-7 in., margins and sheaths with very long hairs, spike- 

 ^ « in. long tomentose, awn longer. 



- ^ 



I^^icie sn'a 1 ^*'^^^"*' Linn. Mani. i. 138 ; slender, quite glabrous, or 

 i^istant a J- ^^^' leaves linear or lanceolate base rounded, spikes 2-4 



glabrous 7 T^'i^^^^^'®^^ «"« ^^' solitary subseasile l-2-9eriate ellipsoid 

 ^V ellinani J r" ^ 2 1 1 ^7-nerved, II ovate acute 7-nerved, III 5-nerved, 

 t 43 f 9 <^^scurely rugulose top rounded. Betz. Obs. iii. 17 ; Lamk. III. 

 a- 1612 ■77' ^^^^ Enum. PI. 91; Steud. Syn. Oram. 41; Wight Cat. 

 ^«<- Pa«lf ■ 7., "^- ^^- ^"y^- 359; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PZ. 104; Aitchis. 

 ^^'^,FodT'n -^^^5 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 3, Indig. Fodd. Grass. 

 * BiarBinaf r' ^' ^"^- 6 ; Bent/i. Fl. Austral, vii. 478. P. distacbyon 

 %ncea. B^'f/ "S""*"^* -^^«^*'- ^^^ '^a^^- <^«^- n. 8732 A. B. P. dimidiatum, 

 ^^^' Sp (Z • p^*- ^- 8732 D. P. subquadriparum, T/n;J. Gram. Panic. 

 ^1^- ^x Wnu'i ■ *• ^^^ ; ^^*«^^ ^- ^'- 80 ; Steud. I. c. 60. P. repens, Herb. 

 ^'^- Cat, n 8731 ^^^\^- ^^igitaria distacbya, Pers. Syn. I SS.-Panicuoi, 



p, .^^lacca anH ^r5^' ^^^^ ^^® Panjab to Upper Assam and Burma, and southward 

 ^^^*.Malavft A ^^^^^' Geeat Cocoa Isld. (Ind. Ocean), Pmin.—DiSTKiB. 



VL'^^ai-gins j. '» *^''^^ched, straggling and creeping below. Leaves 2-6 by i-i in,, 

 £^*' erect jj^Y filiate or not, mouth hairy. Spikes l-2i in., rarely more 

 vT*' pale green . ?"f^".^P^®ading; rachis slender, glabrous. Spikelets variable in 

 ^^t narrow uV ^ overlapping margins below; II paleate or not, palca if 



'^^^KSeh'^' f'S^^ ^ Am. in Wight Cat. n. 1612 a ; leaves J-1 in., ovate- 



snorter, rachis broader, spikelets 2 -seriate.— Drier places. 



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