52 CLXXiiL GEAMiNE^. (J, D. Hoolcer.) [Panicim. 



anil iu tlie spikclet beina: obscurely jointed on the pedicel. A very closely allied 

 plant collected by Beddome in the Anamiillay hills has a much broader rounded and 

 cordate leaf-base, the spikelets are too immature for description, 



41. P. antldotale, Eetz, Ols. iv. 17; tall, glabrous, branching, leaves 

 linear flat base rounded, panicle large effuse or coatracted, branches 

 slender glabrous lower fascicled divided from the base, spikelets -j o }^- 

 Bbortly pedicelled solitary or clustered ovoid acute, gl. I and II with 

 broad membranous margins, I = | III broadly ovate acute 5-nerved, It 

 and III subequal strongly 5-7-nerved, II obtuse, III paleate, IV ovate or 

 oblong acute smooth. Trin. Gram, Pan, 227, Pan. GenA^h ; Nees Agrost. 

 Bras. 201 ; Kunth Eniim, PL i. 125 ; Steud. 8yn. Gram. 77 ; Wight Cat n. 

 1630; Thw, Enum, PI Zeyl, 360; Trim. Cat, CeyL PL 105; Aitchis. Cat 

 Pnnjah PL 158; Dnthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 2, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t 3, 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind, 4; Benth. FL AustraL vii. 483; Boiss, FL Orient v. 

 440. P. maximnm, WalL Cat n. 8715 B {in part) C {in part). P. poly- 

 gamum, Herh. Madr. ex Wight Gat. n. 1630. P. pruinosum, Bernh, ex 

 Trin. Pan. Gen. 191. P. subalbidum, Kunth Revis. Gram, ii. 397, t. 112, 

 Enum, 101. P. tenue, Roxb. ex Wight Cat. {sub n. 1628 non FL Ltd.). 

 Milium arundinaceum, Koen. ex Wight Cat, L c. 



The Panjab and Upper Gangktic plain, and southward to the S. Deccan and 

 Cbylon. — DiSTBiB. Affghun., Afric, trop, AustraL 



Pereuuial, sometimes shrubby, with a stout creeping rootstock bearing villously 

 eheatbed stolons ; branches as thick as a <'row-quill ; internodes solid, woody, terete, 

 smooth; nodes thickened. Leaves 6 Ly ^ in., narrowed from the base to the slender 

 tip, flat, rather rigid, smooth on both surfaces, base narrow rounded, midrib distinct; 

 nerves many, slender; sheaths quite smooth ; ligule a ridpre of hairs. Fanicle 6 in. 

 high, branches filiform, lower nearly 2 in. long, sparingly divided ; branchlets rather 

 short ; capillary. Spikelets quite glabrous j gls. rather thin, pale green ; paleaof iH 

 nearly as long as the gl., 2-toothed, nerves strong or slender; IV shorter than IIU 

 shortly stipitate^ coriaceous, margins incurved ; palea as large as the gl. LodicuUs 

 minute, orbicular. Filaments very short ; anthers linear-oblong. Otary narrow; 

 styles short, free, stigmas broad. — Roxburgh describes P. tenue as having "seeds 

 orate transversely waved," whereas they are quite smooth in P. antidotale. 



42. P. eleerantissimum, Hook.f.; tall, erect frona the base, very 



slender, leaves subradical very long narrow softly pubescent base narrow, 

 peduncle very long and slender, panicle effuse very broad laxly few-fld-* 

 branches long alternate distant solitary naked below and branchlets 

 capillary quite smooth, spikelets ^V in. few on each branchlet shortly 

 edicelled ovate acuminate, gl. I about ^ III ovate mucronate 5-7-nerved, 



-I and in stipitute subequal ovate cuspidately acuminate, II 7-nerved5 

 of the nerves strong above, III nerves 7 slender, palea small ovate, I ' 

 elliptic-oblong obtuse as long as II white shining smooth, 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, Sidley. 



Perennial. Stem 2-3 ft., tufted, and branched at the very base, stiff. Leaves 

 ohitfly subradical, 10^-18 by ^ in., gradually narrowed from the base to the plender 

 tip, strict, suberect, softly hairy all over; mouth of sheath villous; ligule a fasrid^ 

 of hairs. Panicle 12-18 by 6-12 in., scaberulons; branches 1-3 in, apart. S;)tA;eIe/5 

 Tory few and remote, reddish ; gl. I inserted much below the others; IV sessile by 

 a broad base. — A moat elegant grass, 



43. P. acroanthum, Steud. Syn. Gram. 87; glabrous, erect, very 

 •lender, leaves narrow base contracted, panicle broad very efiuae lax-HJ-i 



