44 CLXXiii. QRiMis^EiR. (J. D. Iloolcer.) IPanicum, 



Sect. VI. Efpus^. (See p. 270 



GL I as long as III or nearly so. (The three following species are 

 in no way allied.) 



28. P. cequlgrlume, HooTc, f, ; slender, leaves linear-lanceolate Lase 

 narrow, panicle ovate lax, branches lax in alternate fascicles or whorls 

 spreading laxly few-fld. and branchlets and pedicels capillary sniooth, 

 spikelets 7*2 in. solitary oblong obtnse faintly nerved, I = 111 oblong 

 obtuse white nearly fiat faintly 6-nerved decidaous, II broadly ovate sxib- 

 acute 9-nerved convex. III shorter than II oblong paleate male or neuter 

 nerveless, lY much shorter than II stipitate broadly ovate obtuse sparsely 

 pilose above or glabrous white. 



NiLOHiEi HiLts ; Goodadoor Ghats, alt. 5000 ft., in a wood, Latoson. 



Stem 1-2 ft., apparently geniculately ascending, smooth, purplish ; nodes glabrous. 

 Leaves 2-3 by i-iin., flat, green, smooth, 5-7-nerved and striate, midrib slender; 

 hiise rounded or narrowly cordate; sheath purple, margin fimbriately ciliate; 

 ligule a row of hairs. PanicU 4 in., branches in 6-8 rather distant fascicles of two 

 or three, lowest 2i in. lontj. Spifcelets very pale ; s;l. I very deciduous (so that the 

 mature spikelet appears 3-gluraed), but leaving a distinct scar ; H more coriaceous, 

 nerves more distinct ; III and its palea sometimes very small and empty. — A very 

 curious grass. 



29. P. ovalifoliumy Voxn Encyct Snppl. iv. 279 ; stem slender 

 decumbent and rooting below, leaves 1-2 in. ovate acuminate amplexicaul, 

 panicle ovoid excessively branched, rachis branches and pedicels capillary, 

 spikelets solitary -^r^V i^* ovate subacute, gl. I. nearly = III, 11 hemi- 

 spheric pubescent or hirsute 5-nerved, III flat obtuse, palea large, IV oblong 

 acute dorsally rounded smooth, margins narrowly infiexed. Beauv. FL 

 Otrar, ii. 79, t. 110, f, 1 ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 113 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 84; 

 Benth.FL Hongk. 413; Thw. Enum. PI. Zey/. 359 ; Trim. Cat. Geyl. FU 

 105; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6. P. amplexicaule, Poir. (teste Beauv.)ex 

 Kunth I.e. P. arborescens, Linn. Sp. PI. 69 {in part) (cf. Trim, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xxiv. 135). P. brevifolium, Roxh. Fl. Ind. 1. 306, & Herb. Linn. 

 P. guineense, Desv. 7)is9. ex Poir, Encycl. Suppl. iv. 279. P. tricarinatum, 

 Rteud. Nom. Ed. II ii. 264, Syn. Oram. 94. Isaclme tricarinata. Both Nov* 

 Sp. 57; Kunth Enum. PL 1 136.— Panicum, Wall. Cat. 8737. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 4000 ft.; Kuasia Hills, alt. 2000 ft.; Munkepoke, 

 Burma, the Malay Peninsula and CkyLon. — Distrib. Malaya, China, trop. Afr. 



Stem geniculate and ascending below, leafy usually up to the panicle. Leaves 

 membranous and aheatbs glabrous ciliate or hairy above or all over ; ligule very 

 fhort, ciliate. Panicle ovoid. Spikelets variable in size ; gl II very persistent. 

 Kesembles Sphar^caryum elegans and often mixed with it in Herbaria. As Trimea 

 has pointed out {Journ. Linn, Soc. L c.) this, according to Herb. Linn. & FL Zeyl* 

 is P. arhorescen.fy Linn,, described as being as high as the loftiest trees. This error has 

 no doubt originated from its havuig been accidentally assorted with an ATundinar%<i 

 iu Herb. Linn. 



30. P. tureridum, ForsTc. Fl. Jig. Aral. 18 ; sbrnbby, rootstocV 

 very stout creeping, stem woody, branches alternately or proliferoasly 

 fascicled at the sheathed nodes, leaves short rigid, panicle erect 

 glabrous branches solitary distant simple or sparingly divided, spikelets 

 solitary Vo^s ^ii« subglobose pale, gls, coriaceous cymbiform, I=:in ot 

 nearly so orbicular 5-7-nerved, II broadly ovate acute 7-uerved, III acumi- 



