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PanicumJ] oLxxiii. geamine.e. (J. D. Hooker.) 45 



nate 9-nerved paleate male, IV small ovoid acute quite smooth polished. 

 DelFl Mgypt,Ill 51, t, 9, f . 2 ; Nees Agrost, 5ms. i. 172 {in note) ; Trin. 

 Pan. Oen. 221, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 227 ; Kuntk Enum. PI. i. 97; Steud. Syn. 

 Oram. 88; UutUe Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 13, 



SiND and Centbal India, D'nthie L c— Disteib. Beluchistaa and westward to 



Egypt. 



Rootstock sometimes as thick as the little finger, root fibres strong woolly; 

 11^^^ ^^ ^^'' ^^^^\ 80^^*1, smooth, sometimes as thick as a goose-quill, clothed at 



1 \ T^ ^}^^ inabricating scarious scules, aud the nodes higher up with long scarious 

 eat sheaths, branches sometimes forming dense subglobose fascicles at the nodes 



2 o^?' dim., with many short reduced panicles. Leaves at the base of the stem 

 nod ^°' /I ' ^^^' coriaceous linear -lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, at the upper 



8 reduced to brown chartaceous open sheaths with a deciduous setif orm blade, 



^gule a row of short hairs. Fanicles very variable, 1-5 in. long ; rachis and 



anciies slender, subscaberulous ; pedicels short, tips cupular. Spikelets subsecund, 



joung ovate-lancfolate acute, mature turgid ; palea of gl. Ill broad with ciliate 



stiem' h ^^^^^^.^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ gl- a^d shining. Anthers purple. Styles short, 

 gmas short, primrose-purple. — A remarkable grass, intermediate between 

 SptW ™n^*^ ^#us^ allied to no other Indian, with something of the habit of 

 ^Sind*** ^^^'® ^^ ^y authority for the Indian habitats of this fine species; that 

 ^nmiaf ,^\j*^^^^^^j the Central Indian I doubt exceedingly. As a species it is 

 Place« -f /" ^ should be disposed to refer it to the BracUaria section, but Trinius 

 It under his section Miliaria, which answers to Effmce. 



GL I much shorter than III. 

 t Annual erect leafy grasses. 



sieatha ' ?**^***'®V°*' Linn. Sp. PI. 58 t leaves linear acuminate and 

 t^yrsifo '^ ^^^^ lo^g spreading hairs, base not cordate, panicle 



«{4eWa°\^^^.^^^y decurved or nodding, branches long slender suberect, 

 *hannpll ^v /^" °^^te-oblong cuapidately acuminate glabrous, glumes 

 7-11-uer 1 tT^^^ *^® ^®^^^^ I ^ i III 5-7-nerved, II and III subequal 

 polish pH ^^M- paleate neuter, IV broadly ovate turgid 3-5-nerved 

 .<?««.! r,*, -^°s< Gram. Austr. ii. 16, t. 20; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 104. 



Diss. ii. 186. Pan. Oen. 194 Sv. Gram 



Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 310 

 his.Cat. Paniab.Pl.lbS 



"^ort Gm-^^ ^ '^"^- ^'^- PI- J'(^P- 165. p. asperrimum, Fisch. Cat. 

 ^^iVerJ p;" j/"<^2' ^clog. Gram. 46, t. 31 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 199 ; A. 

 ^•c. P ^•/^•4%«s- ii. 374 ; Steud. I. c. P. callosum, Hochst. ex A. Rich 

 ililium" T^®P^i<^sum, Steud. I. c. 72, ex 3{iq. Prolus Fl. Jap. 275. F. 

 "^all. OolT* ^y^ i- 83. P. pilosum, Herl. Boxb. & Serb. Beyne ex 

 ^oenci Mpti "oao striatum, Spreng. Syst. i. 318. Milium esculentum, 



Cultiv ^' ^'^°icum, Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, n. 1. 



*''ioibe?w °'' naturalized (Wild ?) throughout the hotter parts of India, Afeica, 



V '^ «nbick no^?l^ iJ^^*^^^' 2-* ft-> stout, branching, leafy up to the panicle, 

 "*'te, base n'n ^"^^ ^^^^^ below. Leaves 6-12 by i-1 in., glabrous ciliate or 



"^'' '^'■y lontr »I°^ j™'^'^'^'^ scabrid oflen ciliate ; sheaths lax, deeply grooved, clothed 



Panicle 6-12 in., 



eels often much longer 



?«^A^ g';?; ^ a^^tI.^^^'^' ^^*' C'..//. PI. 105 ; Ai 



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I T ^ pale qnl !• ^^ sometimes much shorter. Spikelets green, erect, turgid; 

 ^^^^odiunl l\a!^ u^ dorsally 5-streaked.— Clofeely allied to P. miliare and P. 



^^ which it possibly hybridizes, but with much larger spikelets. I am 





