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r:':v ; 



; Anrmal. Stems 2-^3 ft., densely tufted, erect from the root. Leaves 6-10 by ^-i 

 ^•iflat, Boft, and sheatlis more or less densely clothed with soft white spreiidinof 

 m; ligulea ridge of hairs. Panicle lU-18 in. long ; branches angnlar, scaberulous. 

 pp«eto solitary or geminate, red-brown. Glumes rather soft ; II deciduous ; IV 

 pe yellow or brownish, sessile, margins narrowly incurved. — The Bornean and 

 "UippiDe specimens are more slender and less hairy 'than the Indian. 



ft Perennials. 



m \ m ^ ^^^^ small, siiborbicular, white, nerveless ; (0 in P. sf/he- 

 pedf llii ^"■9-iierved, paleate or not.— Spikelets usually very shortly 



stout f f*^**™^«^> ^»^!?' J^<^' PI' R^r. I t. 13; ColL i. 76; tall, 

 pam'M^ 1 ^ ^^^^' ^^^^^^ ^^^S broadly linear or linear-lanceolate glabrou'^, 





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pairs elliptic-oblonsf 



iin6r,„^^'^^?,.'^®^°°^P0^°<^> lower branches whorled usually hairy, pedicels 

 acatl^; ll'^^^'J' «pikelet8 tV-tV in. solitary or in - - ^ 



eqoalsl? ®^^^^'"^"«' gl. I = i TIT white 0-3-nerved, II and III sub- 

 lose ^ ''^1'^^'^' -^11 paleate male, lY elliptic subacute transversely ruoru- 

 Trin r ^^J"^- Oce. i. 170 ; Mes AgroRt. Bras. 166, FL Afr Aush: 36 ; 

 iSnw'^T-'^*^''''- 2^1 ; ^««- Ge>i. 180; Steud. Syn. Gram. 72; TFa//. Cai. 

 Km n •^^^P'^^*') D.; Trm. (7a#. Ceyl. PL 105; ^iic/iis. Caff. Pavjah 

 Onent,AooS^- ^''*^- ^- I'^^- 5^9; Baker Fl. Maurit. 436; So/*.?. Ft. 

 ink &■ 'rri altissimum, Brouss. Elench. Hort. Monsp. (1805) 42 ; 



^i ilii 9^^*" ■??"^^- ^''^- Suppl. 98. P. confusum, Trin. ex Steud. Nom. 

 f-EonW ,r eburDeum, Trm. Pa«. G^era. 180; Steud. Syn. Gram. 73. 

 latuj •. p?*^ -^f «• «^ ^oeZZ in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II, 206. P. fascicu- 

 ^a^q hnn n^- "''" '^"'•'" Grwe6. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 649. P. gonpylodes, 

 ^V' Ge/i. o*"f- 20, t. 21. P. jumentorum, Per*. Syn. i. 83 ; ^. P. & K. 

 W.5 rJ>J ^l*- 1- 104; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 361 : Duthie Grass. N.W. 

 ^k^A'.'^i-^-Ind.'d. l^.l^vQ, Ldmk. III. i. \72. P. lon^ipes, 

 **• Pamnlfr!^"' *** ^'^^'^ ^«^- n. 1638. P. megiston, Sckult. Mant. ii. 248. 

 ^*^- Ocf S^^T"^^*^' '^'«"^- ^- c. 71. P. polygamum, Sw. Prodr. Veg. 

 203. p *+1*- ^- praticolum, Saltzm. ex Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II, 

 ^«ni. i 3Q7^^°condylum, Sttud. I. c. 74. P. tuberculatum, Presl Rtl. 



Cnltlvated 



...>..,^ ,»„-... -X- T-. Niitive of AfnVn. 



V ^•^fennial? ^7o"^ P*"".*" of India. 



.^^. Leave 1 9^' ^"^'^ ' *''^'" branching, branches erect, nodes naked or 



I Wicled base to ^ ^.\^~^ '"•» gradually narrowed froiu n finall rounded or 



""o. montU vill * V ^ filiform point, quite smooth, nearly glabrous; sheaths 



\ tt ' filiform « * ' fi^'"^^ *''' ^''"S *'"''■''• -P«"*':^« 1-2 ft., quite erect, branches 

 ^' ?^^*'y scar««if'°°^. ' pedicels usually shorter than the spikelets, glabrous 



rr^«<l both !/ P»^escent, bright green, glistenii: 

 V 'efers it t^ "" ^""""^ «°^ a perennial. Trinius' 



iir L '• /^. Bom, !"«^»*«Mm ; it is described as from N»"pal. 



ing, gU. thin. — This grass is 

 description of P. eburneum I 





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?nan.~,^ ; '• ^- ; ^pikelets shortly hairy, gl. Ill neuter.— Peshawur, Aitchtson. 



yy ently a smaller plant than typical P. maximum. 



&*''ea'7^*d^?*u^^"'^." "^^^ ■^^- ^<'- 2» 87 ; stem creeping and stoloniferous 

 i??^y "^onti-acf rf • "^^ linear-lanceolate flat or convolute glaucous, panicle 

 Ul^- "esgile or k ®«olarly branched, branches 2-3-nate strict, spikelets 

 Vr °'^icular fl °?^ pedicelled ovate-lanceolate acute white, gl. I = J 

 i^^ ^aleorr, ^i ^^^ Bubequal ovate acute sab-5-nerved, III paleate 



J^''ott.Br^^^^n^> ^^ °^^*« acnte smooth. Sibth. Fl. Grsec. i. t. 61 ; 

 'OL. y,j ^««- 171 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 103 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 105 ; 



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