42 CLXXiii. GTiAMiXEiii:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicunu 



Var. elatum ; glabrous, gfdii 3-4 ft. stout erect, leaves 6-10 in. by i in., spike 

 8-6 in. rnther stout, spikelets ^ in. erect oblonff-ovate acute violet blue rarely 

 greenish, — Khasia hills, iu wet places alt. 5-6000 ft. The nearest form to P- 



interruptiim, 



Var. pilosum ; like var. elatum, but not so tall, more flaccid, leaves hirsute 

 with spreading hairs. —Khasia hills, alt. 4-5000 ft. 



Var. villosum ; softly silkily villous, stem 1-2 ft., leaves quite erect, spike 2-6 in,, 

 Bpikelets -J^-J in. green or purplish ovate-oblong glabrous. — Panicum, No. 39, Herb. 

 Ind. Or, Hook. f. .^ T.— Khasia hills, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Var. gracile ; stem 1-2 ft. very slender simple or branched, leaves 4-6 by ^-3 

 in, flaccid, spikes 2-4 in. pale, spikelets ^ in. ovoid subacute glabrous spreading. 

 Nepal, Kumaon, Sikkini, &c. 



Var. angusturri', whole plant very slender spike of very minute loosely packed 

 spikelets -^-^ in. long. — This, the P. angnstum Trin., is a starved form, 



Var. turgidum ; stem 6-12 in., spike short cylindric or oblong very pale often 

 proliferous, spikelets j— ^ in, oblong turgid setulose. — Panicum, Wall, Cat. n. 8697j 

 8698. — In wet places. Perhaps a diseased form. 



24. P. myosuroides^ Br. Prodr, 189; slender, leaves narrow, spike- 

 lets innumerable tV~t^2 iii- densely crowded in an elongate cylindric curveil 

 caudiform panicle broadly obovoid or subglobose obtuse, gl, I about 5 lH 

 3-nerved, 11 very convex and III 5-7-nerved, III oblong obtuse palea 

 minute, IV minute ovate-oblong. Kitnth Enum. PI, i. 77; Steud. S^w. 

 Cham. 56 ; Benih. Ft. Austral, vii. 480 {excL syn. angnstum) ; DiUhie Fudd. 

 Grass. N. Lid. 11, P. arcuatum, Wight Cat. n. 1639 {non Br.). P- 

 angustnm, Wight I.e. 1642 (non Trm)\ Wight Gat n. 164. P. curva- 

 tum, Roxh. FL Ind. i. 286 (non Linn,) ; KuntJi l. c. 87 (excl. syn,). P. 

 indicuni, Herh. Wight n. 3042; Thtc. Enum. PL ZeyL 361 {in part). P. 

 interruptum, var. contigua. Steud. in PL Ind. Or. Hohen. n, 1606 (non 

 Willd.). P. multiflorum, Boxb. Ic. Plot. ined. t. 782. P. nervosum, Serb. 

 Heyne ex WalLCat. n. 8696 A.— Panicum, Watt. Cat n. 8696 A. 0. F. 

 (in part) G.— Sporobolus, Wall Gat. n. 3766 ex Wight. Cat n. 1642. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India from Nepal eastward to Assam and 

 Burma, and southward to the Malat Pbninsitla and Ckylon. — Distrib. China, 

 Austral. Afric. trop. 



iS'Vm erector shortly creeping. Leaves rarely ^ in. broad. Spici/orm or rather 

 cjmdifonn panicle sometimes 8 inches long, tapering from base to tip, with rarely a 

 short branch abruptly breaking out from near the base. Spikelets longer than their 

 pedicels, green or purplish. — This is unquestionably P. mgosuroides, Br,, and Kox- 

 hurgh*8 P. curvatuin, but I hesitate to cite all the nuthors who have taken up these 

 names, in some cases probably from forms of P. indicum. In its ordinary state it is 

 a very distinct grass, from its elegant tail-like inflorescence and minute obtuse spike- 

 lets, but I find it impossible to separate specimens with short apikea from states of 

 P. indicum. P. angnstum^ Trin., is such a state, and is refernd to myosuroides by 

 Bentham, but its larger spikelets are rather those of true indicum. 



25. P. curvatum, Linn. Synt, Nat. xii. 730; stem very slender, and 

 narrow leaves flaccid, spikelets in a lax panicle with capillary flexuous 

 branches, spikelets giblx)usly ovoid-oblong decurved, nerves very stroiigf 

 gl. 1 minute, II cymbiform or almost galeate, III shorter than II ovate, 

 palea linear-oblone, IV minute. Wiqht Gat. n, 1636; Thvx Enum. Pl- 

 ZeyL .S60 ; Trim. Cat. CeyL PL 105 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 207, FL Afr. Austr. 

 50. P. costulatnm, Bojir, mss. P. coryopborum, Kunth Items. Gram. 93, 

 t. 107', Enum. PL 88; SuppL 66.— Panicum, WalL Cat. n. 8712. 



