Panicum.] olixiii. graminbjb. (J. D. Hooker.) 55 



Cummg's n. 2284, Miquel says, stem villous under the panicle. Benth. (Fl. Hougk.) 

 ri concmnum to sarmentosum, and includes incomptum. I do not find the 



S^ T^,;"'^''"'"*'^ ''^ ^^^'^' ^^^^- T^'ere are no spe iinens of this in Herb. Linn, 

 "t. ana Wallicli's ticket l^o. 8709 has A. Hb. Fiulayson, B. Silhet, C. Peniing. 

 «. Aavoj, b. Singapore. 



48. 



Sect. VII. Pttchophyllum. (See p. 28.) 



nervp/n °^ iQ a stiff bristle, gl. I = i III or more orbicular-ovate 5- 

 acute 5-q ~ ^ ^^ ^^ longer 5-7-nerved obtuse, III = IV dorsally flattened 

 1- 7W ^®^^^<i> IV ovate-lanceolate rugulose. Jacq. Edog. Gram. i.t. 

 p_.""u^^«'»- Panic. 183. Gen. Pan. 161. So. Gram. Ic. t. 223: Kunth 



139 fi ■ ooo • i ■• ^'^^'- ^«^- »• ^705 ; Griff, ^^otul. iii. 24, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 

 CeA W in't; ^num. PI. Zeyl. 360 (erci. P. c-osto^wm) ; Trim. Ca<. 



N. W. Ind. 6. i^orf^. Grass. N. Ind. 1 1 



Jf?/4 105 ; i)„,/, 



iSiewrf / "^^'^^■^ ^^^ » Anderss. in Walp. Ann. vi. 944. P. ampliasimum, 

 39. if- '^', t'l ^' ^speratum, Kuntli Bevis. Gram. i. 39, J??ir(W. PI. I.e. 

 BpGrT T ^'''^- ^^^- "i- 456. P. excurrens, Trtn. Pan. Gen. 131, 249, 

 P.Klpi!^" ^^' -^""^'^ £'«MW. i. 94 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 412, excl. syn. 



Ic 54 p^""' -^«^« ^« ^?jrferss. iw TTaTp. ^»». vi. 946. P Itne, Steud. 

 krena J ^f'^^tianum, Willd. ex Spreng. Sj/st. i. 305. P. nepalense, 

 ^ikhi, rl T> ' Kunlh Enum. i. 94; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 291; 

 i 3ll.'wr;.™>* Pi- 160; 3/i<7. /.c. 448. P. nervosum, Eoxb. FL Ind. 



Cat. 



fJ.Y.t^^- GaL n. 8702. 



ManL ii. 228 ; Wi^kt 



^"f n lfil7 . • "• ""-'•a. i. neuroaes, ocnurv. ju.anc.ii, ^^o; rr^unt 



W is/rj ' , ^^^**- ^•«- 9^5; Dw^/ne Grass JST.TF. /»ci. 5. P. paucise- 

 208- r:^?; *„<'• 52. P. palmifolium, .ffoen. in Naturforsch. xxiii. (1788) 

 ^/nJ«,L .n "^^- ^^; ^»im-j. Lc 945. P. Wallichianum, iVees FL 

 Thron r ' ^'^' ^" ''• ^^-^ Panicum, WalL Cat. n. 8703. 



*«»tw„rd"^ °"* r^® moister hilly parts of India, from Kpmaon in the Himalaya 



?,''i8's, Vt pnm^/° ^^^° ^^- i" SiKKiM, the Sh«n Hills in Burma, the NiL- 



"% Islands *^^ Malay Peninspia, and CEriGN.— Distbib. China, 



the thickness 



"^^ sparrow's ^ '^^'^^^ ^^ ascending from a woody branched stock, from 



!*^''*on the sh -"l^^""'^ 'i"'"' ''^"'^'" -^'^'*'''«« 6-24 by ^-4 iu., finely acuminate, 



'J ; slieaih R ^ ■ ^^ Peiioled, inembr«nou3 or chartaceous, glabrous or sparsely 



■^'' *''««t with 'P?""'^^ hispid, mouth ciliate ; ligule short. Panic-Ie thyrsoid, striate 



^^ ('P'ciform ■ ,"'^'^''*^*' or «^ff"se and drooping, 1-2 ft. long, with branches 2-4 in. 



jp*^ are, I h.;, 1, ';;"■"'»'»> palmifolium, ncurodes and the seven vars. of the latter. 

 tu^'"' Was fl -l *°""^ chiefly dcpeiident on climate nnd age. Lauiark's P. 

 itrJ"^*'»8orSt if" • ^^^"^7^ ^''■o^^ a cultivated specimen of uncertain origin 

 wL "%wilht\ t"'°°^' ^"' Jacquin's excellent figure of it leaves no doubt of 

 to!;'''y cultivated f ^"^"*» Plnnt, for it resembles no American one. It has been 

 jii^fts the idM l"« '^''«'ly 1 century, and a garden specimen in Beutham's Herb. 

 1m "'.'t is dlo ■u**^'''"- I do"l>t P. palmifolium of Poi.et being specifically 

 tal ■ ^*') 'dentifif -I • *'"*'™ »» E. Indian specimen, though Grisebach (Fl. Brit. 

 6.r'^°^'«'n from i '^"'*' ''•'^ W. Indian P. s«/ca<uw, Aubl. Gristbach distinguishes 

 '^'*''«n», but f fi i"*". ^y gl- II of the latter shorter than IV, and longer in 



had this a most variable character and not borne out by the 



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