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hniciim.] clxxiii. gramtneje. (J. D, Hooker.) 51 



We a ridge of hairs. Panicle 6-10 in., often nearly as broad, lower branches 

 *florl€d and fascicled, trigonous, scaberuloug. Spikelets green, variable in size, 

 terete, palea of ^\, III 0, or minute, or linear, neuter or male rarely bisexual. — 

 ^My allied to (if not a more luxuriant aquatic form of) P. repens, and coufused 

 fithitasto synonymy; but a coarser plant, with a more spreading panicle, more 

 icummate spikelets and a more oblong gl. IV, Further, P, repens has normally 

 Mrter glaucous narrower convolute leaves, and a more irregularly branched panicle, 

 so very near the Australian P. decomposifumy Br., which has 'normally a dccom- 



Po™ panicle with more slender spreading branches and branclilets, and distant 

 solitary spikelets. 



ofs .'"' ^^^^'''^^^ niade for me a careful analysis of the spikelets of a large series 

 tlip^K^"^^^^* ^"d I have made many myself, with the view of testing the value of 

 «_?.^°.^6 or presence of the palea in gl. Ill, and its sexuality. As eximples he 



5 J \"r^P'^*^l^ts taken promiscuously 3 epaleate and 6 with reduced paleas. In 

 "Henrf ^^^Paleate and male, in 3 others all paleate but neuter. In 9 others 

 Of 6V*V 1 """^ * branch with 10 spikelets, 9 of them had gl. Ill paleate, 1 epaleate, 

 ovarv q f ^ ^**°"^ "^^^ tlie base of a branch, 3 epaleate, 2 male with a rudimentary 

 PanioL Vi ^^ ^"^ female. Of 8 spikelets from a branch in the lower part of a 

 ^,^^e, Slowest epaleate, 6 paleate and bisexual. 



Wn ^^^^Srlume, Trin. Pan. Gen. 204; stem slender, leaves linear, 

 «Pz]cp1p^"°i • ' P*^^*^^® large effuse, rachis and branches flexuous capillarv, 

 iud IV ^ ^°{ Pe<iicelled elliptic-oblong subacute, gl. I and II absent, lit 

 'aiicpnl\ ^*^" ' ^^^ 5-7-nerved glabrous or silky, IV elliptic-oblong or 

 «n Sr^'l^P^*^'^^®- '^^««^- Syn. Oram. 8i. P. arcuatum, Br. ex Nees 

 t» stv,} 7 ^' ^^^^ (^''^ -S^- Prodr.). P. Browniannm, W>ffht & Am. 

 n, iL Ofi/' 'L^^- P- Torreyanum, Wight et Am. ex Sfeud. Norn. Ed. 

 tunthv' ■'^^'^ ^«'^- "• 1634. Milium capillare, Roth Nov. Sp. 39; 

 IV. ifpv^i ^^' ^- ^7- ^I- tomentosnm. Koen. ex Bottl. in Ges. Naturf. 



WpTI-'^m '''* ^1^03) 220; Sieitd. Syn. Gram. 34; Kunth I.e. 66. 



■ ^''''^J Wall. Gat. -a. 8ti50. 



^ntS^ ^^^^^^^' ^^y^e ; Madurti. Rotller ; Palavcnmi, fTif/ht. 



*''^ "heaths 1 h ^~^ ^^" ^^^- -^*«''" 3-6 by i in. or less, finely acummiit«, 

 ^^ 'l, spread °"* softly hairy or tomentose ; lijiule short, meuibranoTis. Panicle 

 ***• Spiitel < ^' ^'*^'^°"^ ' ^°*^'" branches suberect, alternrtte, divided from the 

 ^''"' linear* Ki "^"^^ Pborter than their pedicels, erect, dorsally compressed. 

 **S but th T h^' obtuse—The absence of gl. I and II are characters of Pas- 

 ,s,v^. ^ ''^"'t and inflorescence are those of a Panicam. 



P\ elets acute or acuminate. (See also P. auritum.) 



^.t.33;\t^^*®,^°^? -^Mwr(? ex Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. (1890) 

 **H8every la ^ ^^^.^^' leaves lon^:: linear-lanceolate base narrow, panicle 

 HiceU very \ ^^^^^^ branches and pedicels very slender subscaberulous, 

 {>^,Vt==2 jTy^^' spikelets \ in. remote solitary elliptic acuminate, gL 

 i^ ^'^erved V^^^ ^^^^® l-S-nerved, II and III sube^ual, II o.nerved, 

 ^^^'^iiarroici •^«^^^''*' I^ elliptic acuminate quite smooth poliahed 

 Ijppj^ A ^ ^i^fiexed. Munro Cat. PL GriffitK &c., ined. p. 56. 



i^AeuQial/^g/ ^?^*^ ^i^ls. (Griffith ; Nambre forest, alt. 400 ft., Clarice. 

 v.* ^'8:alt'elo^,^^ ^"^^ ^^-y quite glabrous. Leanes 5-10 by i-^ in., finely acumi- 

 *^i^^^^^®®f gjj ^^^^'■^^^*'°&» scarious. Panicle 3-6 in., usually sessile as it were on 

 eioTt ^tthebn ^P^^^^eU many ti meg shorter than their pedicels, obscurely 

 '^^fathetih ' glumes distant on a distinct inarticulate racheola; IL fUira- 

 " ; oorter than II, brown. — Altogether resembles an Isachne in habit, 



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