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Panicmi.'] olxxiii. gramixe^ (J. D. Hooker.) 39 



18. P. latlfollum, Linn. Sp, PL 58; stem prostrate and rooting 

 below, leaves lanceolate acuminate base rounded or cordate, panicle lax, 

 oranclies distant stout, rachis scaberulous, spikelets large I-]- in. very 

 +V V ^ s^c^iid solitary or in pairs, glumes coriaceous 5-nerved, tips 

 tmckened, 1 = i H or longer, II and III subequal, III broadest triandrous, 

 paiea narrow, IV ovoid acuminate quite smooth. Willd. Sp. PL I 350; 

 Jiunth Emm. PL i. 117; H. JS. & K, Nov. Gen. & Sp. I 100. P. Balbi- 

 mnnm.Schult Mant n. 2o-l; Stead. Spi. Gram. 76. P. grandiflorum, 

 inn exNees Agrost, Bras. 154. P. oryzoides. Sw. Prodr. 23, FL Ind. Occ. 

 yy^lKunthlc. 129: Nees Agrost Bras. 154; Steud. I.e. 80; Arduin. 

 ^nxmadv, n. t. 5; Griseh. Fl. Brit. W, Ind. 547. P. Pseudo-oryzoides, 

 ?« ; T.''^' P. Ridleyi, Each, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. IL Bot. iii. 401 

 £ 7 '••• ' zizanioides, H. B. K. I. c. ; Steud. L c. 75.— Panicum, Griff, 

 il- !n;^^' ^' 17.— TFa//. Gat. n. 8706.— Gram, Virgin. &c. Maris. SisL 

 ^^•,"ivl96, t. 8, f. i.—Sloane Mist. Jam. i. 114, t. 71, f. 3. 



^ EVG^x., SiLHET. Cachar, Btjema, and the Malai^ PeSins.— Disteib. Eastern 



7?^^^^^ «nd America. 



^at*^']^ K "^"' ^*jther stout, extensively creeping, glabrous, or nodes tomentose. 

 ciliate P ^^ i-f in., subdistichous, flat, glabrous; sheaths smooth; ligule short, 

 Win^RV To'^a "^"^ ^^'' ^^^^^9 contracted; branches simple or sparingly divided, 

 ^eryob 1 • branchlets at the base; rachis stiff, angular. Spikelets t\\T^\(\, 

 fteir thick ?H^*^-^^^^^^ on the short stiff pedicels, pale green; gls. all broadly ovate, 

 ^^1 eant ^^. ^^P^ laterally compressed, lateral nerves on each side close together ; 



ire vpr^ ^u^^ imperfectly triandrous.— The compressed thickened tips of the glumes 

 y^^ characteristic. 



iin XrmP^^' ^^^^ ®^^^*^ ^^ ^^'^ internodes 4-6 in, rigid, nodes tomentose, leaves 

 l**minaul» VJ-^^^.'"^ thickened, base narrowed, panicle nearly 12 in. long.— Mahiy 

 . '^''K at Gopmg, Kinf^ Collector. 





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Sect, IV. Hymenachne. (See p. 27.) 



Btenn^ll 



'^T'comn"'"''!'^*^^^^ Deiow, leaves long fiat base cordate, pauicle narrow 

 Hin er?°f ^^^^'^ interrupted, branches closely appressed, spikelets 

 '°»ger than TT^q"^''^^ lanceolate, gl. I = ^ III, II 3-nerved, III much 

 '^> Enum P7 . ^-^erved, IV small thin lanceolate. Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 

 ^^yl- PI Ifu k ^^' ^'^PP^- 65; Thw. JSnuTtt. PL Zeyl. 361 ; Trim. Gat. 



Richard m ■ . ^ (^'"cZ. Syn. interruplum) — Excl. in all Syn. Lamk. Badge, 

 ^'- -ftar ' Ja^'^oo , '^^'utiglumum, Steud. Sun. Gram. 66. P. auritum, Mas-sk: 

 i^"^- in Zolf i""^" ^S''^^-)- P cynosuroides, mrb. Bottl. P. Hasskarlii, 



^/^er ^;. ii^^e^. 50 (c.rc/'. Si/n. Lamk 3 



•iwroid 



Atjrostis aiope- 



I -^^n^^/.e^P '^^^'^ * ^ mono.stachys7 Pair. "j?nc2/cZ. )Sw/!«'Z. i. 256/ e.^ 



U'^^^^A and C?' """^^ ^''''''^'" Bengal, Assam, Silhet 



•ftp,"^ erect 2-^^ff^^"~^^^'^^^^- "^^'^P- ^s- Austral, and Amer. 



t^, , ^^ ^liick L r^ • **^-^' rooting at the nodes of the prostrate base, which \s 



*^^«t>use touV^*^^'^ ^'^*^^' ieaves 12-18 by |-1 in., tapering from a broad 



Repent, margin serrulate; aheath smooth, glabrous ; ligule very 



DeccaN 

 1 Amer. 



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