60 CLXxiiL GKAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pantcurn. 



Aitchis. Cat Punjab PL 160; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6, Fodd. Grass. 

 JSr. Ind, 11 ; Boiss.'jTL Orient. yH 410; Benth, Fl Hongh. 412. P. airoides, 

 Br. Prodr. 190; ^Kunth I.e. 122. P. aquaticum, A. Rich. Tent FL 

 Aht^ss. ii. 373. P. arenarium, Brot. FL Lusit. i. 82, Phyt, Lusit. i. 15. t, 

 6;'N€es AgrosL Bras. i. 170, FL Afr. Austr, 37; Trin. Pan. Gen. 181. 

 P. coloratum, Cav. Ic. ii. 6, t. 110. P. convolutum, Beauv. ex Spreng. 

 Sj/st. i. 319. P. hvgrocharis, Steiid. I.e. 72. P ischseoioides, Retz. Oba, 

 iv. 17; BotU. in Neue Sehrift. iv. (1803) 185; Sleud. L c, 98; Wight 

 Cat. n. 1627 ; WalL Cat. n. 8710. P. multinode, Lamk. EncycL iv. 747 

 {ex Nees Agrost. Bras.). P. paludovsum, Hochst. ex Steud. Lc. 72 {not of 

 Roxb.). P. polystacliion, Ucria, Ifort. Reg. Panorm, bi. P. psilopodium, 

 Trin. ex Wight Cat. n. 1633 C; Herb. Strach. 8r Winterh. No. 5. P. Rox- 

 burgianum, Schult. Mant. ii. 245. P. sarineutosnm, Hb. Wight ex WalL 

 Cat. 8710 C. PP. nliginosum, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 308 ; WalL Cat n. 8710 A; 

 Kitnih L c. 126.— Panicum, WalL Gat. n. 8714 E, 8746. 



Thronghont Indta, by bants of streams and in dry places, froir» tbe Panjab 

 eastwards and southwards. Ceylon, Walker, GartZner. — DiSTEiB. iS. Europe, Asia, 



AtV., Ainer. 



Stems 2-6 ft., erect or ascending from a stout creeping rootstock, leafy, simple 

 or 1 ranched below, nodes rooting. Leaves 3-6 in., strict, often glaucous, usually 

 nnrrosv and involute, smooth, glabrous or hairy on the upper surface, margins some- 

 times toothed towards the ciliate rounded base; sheaths with ciliiite margins; llgule 

 a narrow coriaceous ring. Panicle 3-8 in., branches usually erect, very slender, 

 angular, scaberulous ; pedicels short, tip cupular. iS/^f/ceZe^s erect, quite glabrous ; 

 gl. I membranous, nerveless or 3-nerved ; palea of III truncate ; IV shortly broadly 

 Btipitate, pale. Anthers red. — Roxburgh distinguishes his P. uliginosum from F. 

 paludosum (proliferum, lamh.) by the tetragonous smooth branches of the panicle» 

 whereas in P. paludosum these are trigonous with acute hispid angles. I have seeQ 

 no authentic ■pecimens of his P. uliginosum^ but his figure of "Gundru" (the 

 native name which he gives for it) does not show this character of the panicle. 



38. P. proliferum, Lam. En^yrlAv. 747; stem erect from a floatitig 

 base, leaves linear or ensiform acute serrulate usually flat, panicle with 

 long virgate spreading brancbes bearing short few-fld. branchlets and 

 Holitary sessile or shortly pedicelled spikelets which lie parallel to the 

 branchlet, spikelets ^-^ in. lanceolate, gl. 1= ^-^ III orbicular, II ovate 

 acuminate 9-nerved, HI lanceolate 9-nerved paleate or not, IV oblong 

 acuminate pmooth. Kees Agrost Bras. 170; Kunth Enum. PL i. 100; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 71 ; MuelL Fragment, viii. 191 {the King's Creek plant)* 

 P. aurantiacum, Ham. ex WalL Cat. n. 8714 B. P. gongylodes, Jacq* 

 Eclog. Gram. iii. t. 21. PP. decomp isitum, D'lthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 3. 

 P. decompositum, var. paludosum, Trim. Cat. CeyL PL 105. P. elepban- 

 tipes, Nees Agrost. Bras. 165. P. EUiottii, Trin. ex Nees L c. 170. P- 

 fistulosum, Hochst. ex Steud. L c. 71. P. natans, Koen. ex Trin. Pantc. 

 Gen. 237. P. paludosum. Roxb. FL Ind. i. 307; WalL Cat. n. 8711 ; Kees 

 FL Afr. Au.Hr. 35 ; Eunth L c. 126 ; Griff. NotuL 37, Jc PL Asiat. t. 139, 

 f. 127; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 11. P. repens, Thw. Enum. PL ZeyL 

 360 ; Trim. Cat. CeyL PL 105 ; Trin. Pan. Gen. 179. P. rigiducn, Hegne »» 

 Herb. Ko«Z.— Panicum, WalL Cat n. 8714A. {in part) B. C. D. 



Marshea and still waters throughout the low countries of India, from the Panjah 

 to Assam and southward. Ceylon. — DiSTBiB. Tropics generally. 



Perennial. Stem 2-3 ft. or more ; lower nodes spongy, as thick as the little 

 Sugar. Leaves t-12 by ^-J in., base broad but hardly cordate; sheaths loose; 



