i 



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Panicum.^ 



CLXxiii. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Ilooker.) 



^ South Deccan Peninsitla ; Heyne, &c., Courtallam, Wi^ht. 



i/iuait65.— DisxRiB. Madagascar, S. Africa. 



43 



Ceylon, Walker, 



.^7 1-4 m,, brancljes alternate, quite glabrous. Spikelef.s ^\-^\ iu., very 

 ^n-ougiy nerved, except gl. I, which is transversely obloncr; II vt^ry strongly 11- 



/ft? n m^-S-nervedj IV ovoid, obtuse.— A very elegant small grass. Stoudcl 

 Wn. Gram. R?;, i,«„ _o, , ^ ' _i>_ t^ , -^ _ ^ /o. . ? r.,«x ._ .i • 



\ ^Q.Uram 85j has referred Spreugel's P. madagascarense (Syst. i. 317) to 

 opreugel s character " glumes obsoletely uerved " is irreconcilable. 



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 this. 



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Sect. V. Bbeviglum.e. (See p 27.) 



26. 



elendp^' ^anallculatum, Nees in Wight Cat n. 1624; stems very 

 toffX 1 '^^^'^^^^*i' leaves narrow, spikelets -hrh in. solitary or few 

 simple ^^^^^^^*^ ^^ distant very short branchlets along a capillary 

 and 11^^^ !^_?I^*''"*^^^^^S ^^^T shortly pedicelled, gis. membranous, I 

 Jftale IV^ i~~ ^^^ broadly ovate snbequal, III ovate acute paleate 

 ^-toofhA/l ^^ i*^^ ^^ ^^^ lanceolate acutninate thin muri4-ulate tip minutely 

 ^•Silvf? E?iicronuIate. Steud. Syn. Gram. 65. P. mvurum, Wight 

 ., .w. ^.c. P. stenostachyum, Thw. JtJnum. PL ZeyL 436; Trim. Gat. 



Aira interrupta, Jio/^^/. ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 55. 



^'' (^e^/^. 105. 



South 



^^^e, Gz!Se"^^^*^^^ Peninsula, WigU. Ceylon ; Jaffna ,Her6. Bottler; Triaco- 



'^tstook Pr ?"^* 'Siem* 2-3 ft., many from a small woody branched nodulose 

 ^^'te smooth ^^ ^^^'cw^J^bent at the base. Leaves 3-10 by i-J in., thin, Hat, 

 %nle obscurA^*^^^'v ^^^^ slender, tips setaceous, base narrow; sheaths smooth; 

 ^'^^^^ or in 1 '^^^\ ^/'i^^^ 3-8 in., almost capillary. Spikdets solitary, 



^^stenin^. o-i^t"!^^'!^-^^** '^"^' ^^ ^ very short branch, sessile or subsessile, pale. 



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^odica/^^ ' y^l'y pale, dorsal ly flattened and channelled, 5-nerved; palea acute. 

 ^^*ar sjjcies!"^ ^' ^^"®*^t*^- ^^^^^^^ li^^ear. Style long, stigma short.— A very 



i- 



specie 



Anthers linear. Style long, stigma short. — A very 



V- > 



^ 1 ' 



27 b 



^^O'?, leaves^n***^^' -^wnf/^ Unum. Fl. I 97 ; stem creeping and rooting 

 "lender '""""^ "" 



ps linear base 



rounded or cordate, pauicle broad rachis very 

 -^ 1 «.-,. . • . 1 • . remote 



^^ose or r*"^' l^ranches very long filiform striate bearing 



t^ 'd lone. 1 7 ^V^^^s of few secund elliptic-oblong acute spikelets 

 ^iierved IT? J: V' ^ »ot =: ^ III 3-5-nerved, II rather longer than I 



"*^-). P vVi "^^^^ ^-^^ P- multinode, Pr 

 ,_ ^- violaceum, Llanos Fragm. 42. 



/ Rel. Mienk. i. 303 v^naM 



^^^'*^^-Ma]av!*f/u-**^'^ southwards to MALACCA, Tbavancobe and Ceylon. 



A '"•.bra.lv,^'''''™"'' pilose o 



Leaves 2-5 by ^-^ in., flat, thin, and as wtll as 

 auche8 2 '^^ *"*"''*-• or hirsute, base ciliate; lifcsule very short, Pamela 

 €1^^^ ^^kA\c.A y\'' ^^litary or fascicled. Sjukelets pale Kveeu, sessile or veiy 

 ^^^%:.^7 &^^**>rous or sligiitly hairy; gl. IV. ^ long ub 111, doi-saJJy 



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