54 CLXXiiL GRAMiNEiE, (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicunt. 



Assam ; Goalpara, Hamilton. Silhet, Cachab, the Khasia and Naga Hilxs, 



and the Jheels. , 



Perennial. Gregarious in water {Clarice), Habit of P. montanum, h\xt muca 



more slender, with narrower leaves 4-8 by \-\ in., a smaller panicle, with shorter 

 pedicels and much smaller spikelets. Ol, II fugacious. 



Var. ? perakense ; stem robust nearly as stout as a goose-quill below, leaves i in. 

 hroiid, spikelets broader, ncrvei stronger, Ptnik, King's Collector (a, 2546). 

 Probably a different species*. 



46. P. kha&ianuiUy Munro mss.; tall, leaves linear or linear- 

 lanceolate base narrowly cordate, panicle very large branches very long 

 slender smooth, pedicels long or short, spikelets snbsolitary xViV ^^' 

 ellipsoid subacute glabrous, gl. I nainute much shorter than III, nerves 

 or 3 obscure, II and III subequal 5-nerved, III epaleate, IV elliptic-oblong 

 subacute smooth. 



E. Nepal and Sikeim, alt. 4-7000 ft., J. D. JET., Clarke. Khasia Hills, in 

 marshes, alt, 4-6000 ft,, Griffithy &c. 



Perennial. Stem prostrate and creeping below, then erect, 3-6 ft. Leaves 6-1* 

 by |-li in., thin, glabrous hairy or subscabrid, many-nerved, base usually contracted 

 with incurved auricles, not or obscurely ciliate ; sheath smooth or hispidly hairy, 

 mouth btarded ; ligule very short, ciliate. Panicle 6-12 in., often as broad; lower 

 branches nearly as long, solitary or fascicled, unbranched below. — Near P. montanum, 

 differing in the narrower leaf-base, very short gl- 1, and in gl. II not fugucious. 

 Also near P. sarmentotumf from which the minute gl. I distinguishes it. 



»• Gl Illpaleate. 



47. P- sarmentosumi JfoajJ. i^/. Jnrf. i, 308 ; tall, branched, scandent, 



leaves long base narrow rounded, panicle pyramidal or ovoid loosely 

 branched glabrous, rachis smooth, branches half-whorled capillary, spitelets 

 Tl^s'^V^^m sessile or shortly pedicelled ovoid tips obtuse ciliolate, gl-^^^ 

 111 or more obtuse or subacute 3-5-nerved, II and III subequal orbicular 

 nerves 5 broad, III palea small narrow, IV small ellipsoid subacute dorsally 

 rounded smooth. Knnth Enum, PI. i. 126; Steud. Syn, Oram. 98. P- 

 micrognostum & P. vacillans, Steud. h c. 75 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat iii. 45^- 

 P. concinnum, Nees i>2 Hook. Kew Jovrn, ii. (1850) 97 ; Steud, I. c. 78 ; Miq- 

 Lc. 4o7. P. incomptum, Trin. DissAl 200, Gram. Panic. 200, Sp. Oram. ic. 

 t. 232; JTunth Lc. 112; Sieud. /.c. 88; Nees in Mart. Fl Bras. ii. 207; 

 Herb. Wight {Kew Distrih. n. 6492). P. maximum, Wall. Gat. n. 8715 E- 

 P. tjicoyiieuse, Steud. I. c. 70. ? P. incomptum, Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 4. 

 Panicura, Wall Cat. n. 8709. 



Assam, Silhet, Cachar, and the Khasta Hills, ascending to 5000 ft-t 

 Chittagoxg, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula.— Distktb, Malay Islds., Chmai 



Tonkin. 



Perennml. Stems attaining 50 ft, often as thick as a goose-quill, solid, pubescent 

 or glabrous, with wliorU of long wiry slender branching roots at the bearded node* 

 below, whence the flowering branches issue, Leavet 12-15 by i-H »»•> l^"^**'* 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, smooth or liairy on both 

 surfaces or beneath especially, many-nerved ; sheaths smooth or sparsely hahy' 



Ijgule a brush of hairs. Panicle 6-12 in., very Yariyble, branches erector spreading, 



en creeping and entangling, straight or flexuous. Spif^^" 



long or short, branchlets oitt 



/ets erect or spreading.— Duthie gives P.'incomptum as a native of Garwhal, alt. 

 4-5000 ft., but I have not seen P. sarmeniosumy Roxb. from the westward of Assam, Rfld 

 I suspect that P. monianum is the plant intended. Of P. concinnutny which ^ 



