48 CLXxiTL GBAMiNEJi. (J. D. Ilooker.) IPanicum. 



Annoal. Stem 6 in. 3 ft., tufted, erect or geniculate below, leafy chiefly near 



the base; nodes rarely rooting. Leaves 3-10 by |-i in., usually flat, thin, acumi- 

 tate, glabrous hairy or hirsute on both surfaces or beneath only; ligule short, fim- 

 briate. Fanicle 4-10 in., erect, often as broad as long. Spikelets green, yellow or 

 pnrplish ; gl. IV. variable in breadth, and in colouring, from pure white to greenish- 

 brown, with 3-5 darker dorsal stripes. — Nees Fl, Afr. Austr. 51 has referred P. 

 trypheron, Sch. to F. curvaium^ L., a very different plant, and not a native of 

 Bengal. 



35. P. humlle, Nees ex Steud. Syn, Gram. 84; dwarf, slender, leaves 

 very narrow glabrous base narrow, panicle broad effuse lax-fld., branches 

 BubsoUtary long spreading naked few-fld,, branchlets capillary, spikelets 

 yV ill* pedicelled ovate acute glabrous, gl. I = § III broadly ovate acumi- 

 nate 3-nerved, II longest ovate-lanceolate acuminate 3-nerved, III ovate 

 acute 3-5-nerved paleate neuter, IV much shorter broadly oblong obtuse 

 pale shining. Thw. Ennm. PL Zeyl, 360 (CP. 3243) ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl Fl 

 105; JDufhie Grass. N.W Ind. 4, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 9. P. tenellum, 

 Gr!ff. Notul. iv. 21, Ic. PI Asiat. t. 139, f. 194 {non Boxb.). 



The Pan JAB. Thomson-, Bengal, Assam, Bikkim, Areacan, and southward to 

 Ceylox. — DisTRiB. Borneo. 



Annual. Stem 2-21 in,, erect or geniculate below, much branched and often 



flowering from the base. Leaves 2-8 by J— J in., flat, base hardly cordate ; sheath 

 glabrous, or mouth sparsely hairy. Panicle 1-3 in., often as long as the whole plant, 

 very laxly and diffusely branched. Spikelets minute, pale or reddish. 



36. P. hydafipicnm, Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 207; 

 dwarf, leaves linear-lanceolate hirsute base narrow, panicle effuse much 

 branched glabrous, branches erecto-patent alternate rarely opposite ana 

 branchlets and pedicels filiform, spikelets ^^o"^ in. equalling or shorter 

 than their pedicels solitary ovate acnte glabrous, gls. membranous, nerves 

 strong, I = § III ovate acuminate 5-nerved, II and III subequal ovate 

 subacute 5-7-nerved, III paleate, IV elliptic obtuse brown shining. 

 Aiichis. Cat. Panjab. PL 16&; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 4. P. humile, 

 Aitchis. L c. 



The Pakjab and Uppee GAyoETic Plaik; from the Kavee to the Indus. 

 EdgeworVi^ &c. Central Pbovinces, Duthie. 



Annual* <S^«m 6-18 in,, geniculately ascending, rather stout below, branching 

 from the very base. Leaves and sheaths clothed more or less thickly with long white 

 hairs; sheaths inflated in some states. Leates 1-2 by i-J in., flat, soft, acute; 

 ligule a row of hairs. Panicle 2-4 in., peduncled^ erect, ovoid rachis, and branches 

 quite smooth, har<ily flexuous. Spikelets pale green, except the dark brown gl. iVi 

 palea of III smaller than the gl., oblong. 



37. P. caeBlum, Nees in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. (1850) 97 ; erect, stout, 

 hairy, leaves linear base narrow subcordate, panicle large erect subthyr- 

 siform much branched, branches suberect lower fascicled^ spikelets tV^iV ^^' 

 subsessile except the terminal broadly ovoid turgid nerves anastomosingi 

 g]. I = ^-1 III ovate obtuse 6-nervea, II and III subequal ovate acute 



7-9-nerved, palea linear, IV = II elliptic-ovate obtuse pale smooth shining- 

 P. reticulatum, Thvo. ex Trimen Cat. Geyl. PL 105 (non^ Gr/^ei.).—Panicuio» 

 WalL Cat n. 8744. 



Bekgal. in the Jhcels, J. D. H. & T. T. 

 Nicobar Islds., Kurz. Ceylok ; PAsdooi 



Borneo, N. Guinea, Philippines. 



AIACCA, Or^ffi^'^ 



3890).— DiflTBl^ 



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