56 CLXXiii. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Fanicwm. 



material that GrUebach worked upon. He also describes gL IV as ellipsoid, but it is 

 ovate-laiiceolnte in both. Whether P. snicaium is specifically different may be 

 doubted. P. excurrens, Trin., is a small narrow -leaved flaccid (perhaps^ young) 

 state, with a vcrj slender panicle and erect branches; it is Wall. Cat. n. 8703, and 

 a common Himalayan form. Wall. Cat. n. 8705 is a gigantic form from Silhet, 

 ^here I found it abundantlv. 



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48.* P. flavescens, Sto. Prodr. Veg. Ind, Occ, 23, FL Ind. Occ. I 158; 

 annual, leaves plicate linear-lanceolate, panicle erect branches spreading 

 sinaple pubescent and bristly, spikelets subsecund, gl. I = ^-5 III orbicular 

 obtuse 3-nerved, II = l- IV apiculate 5-7-nerved, III = IV 6-7-nerved 

 paleate male, IV ellipsoid acuminate transversely rngnlose. Kunih Enum. 

 Pli. 128; Steud. Syn. Gram. 80; QrueK FL Brit. W. Ind.b^l. P, bar- 



batum, Telf. ex Wall. Cat, n. 8689 D. P. costatum, Eoxh. FL Ind. i. 312 ; 



Wall. Cat. L c. ; Xunth I. c. 93 ; Steud. I. c. 64 ; Anderss. in Walp. Ann. n. 



947. P. faaciculatum 3, Nees Agrost. Bras. 152. P. mauritianum, S^rh. 



Willd. ex Spreng. S^st. i. 305. P. paractaenioides, TWti. in Mem. A^ad. 



Petersb. Ser. 6, iii. II (1835) 219. P. Thouarsianum, Nees ex Steud. L c. 62. 



P. plicatum vat. costatum, Baker Fl. Manrit. 437. Setaria mauritiana, 



Spreng, Syst. \. 305 {ex Baker). 



Cultivated in Hort, Box. Calc, WallicK Siam ? Herh. i^'mZa^son.— Distbib. 

 Trop. Anier. 



Stem 3-6 ft., slender above, stout brancbed creeping and rooting below. Leaves 

 5-8 by ^-1 in,, finely acuminate, narrowed to the very narrow base, thin, flaccm, 

 Koftly hairy on both surfaces; sheath with hispidly ciliate margins towards the 

 contracted mouth ; ligule obscure. Panicle 3-5 in., ovate-oblong, branches 1-1^ iJJ* 

 Spikelets -^^ in., snbses^ile, green. — This grass is described as annual by Griaebacbj 

 and as pereunial by other authors. 



49. P. rhachitrichum. Hochst. in Flora, xxvii. Q844) 254; annual 



nodes of stem pubescent 



slender spreading and pedicels laxly hairy, gl. I minute membranous, U 

 and III subequal ovate-oblong obtuse, III paleate neuter, IV ellipsoid 

 rngulose tip rounded. Parlat. in Book. Niger Flora, 187; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 63. P. chamaeraphis, Nees ex A. Braun^ Ind. Sent. Uort. Berol 

 (1853), App. 20; Anderss. in Walp. Ann. vi. 947. P. homonymum, Steud. 

 I.e. 48 \ Duthie Grass, N.W. Ind. 4 (homogynum). 



SuBTHOPiCAL Himalaya; Dehra Dhun, Ro^Ie; Chamba, alt. 5000 ft., Clarice; 

 Kumaon, Duthie \ Sikkim, alt. 6000 ft. Chota Nagpue and Calcutta, Clarke. 

 DisTRiB. Africa trop. 



Sterns tnfted. erect, 8-18 in., leafy. Leaves 6-3 by 1-1^ in., flaccid, glabrous or 

 sparsely hairy, base rounded ; margins r.nd mouth of sheath villous. Panicle 2-6 in-* 

 branches alternate spreadino^; rnchis very slender, flexuous, bristle of pedicel twi^^ 

 as long as the spikelet, Spikelets -^Vj in., secund, l-2.seriate, loosely or densely 

 imbricute, sometimes fascicled in the Calcutta specimens, dorsally compressed ; g'** 

 'ranons, pale, nerves green; I l-3.nerved ; II 5-6.nerved, obtuse ; lil 5-nerved» 



membra 



palca minute. 



Sect. VIII, GiBBOS^. (See p. 25.) 



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Spikelets usually shortly pedicelled. 



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50. P. trigronum, Retz. 01 s. iii. 9 [excl. Svn. Burm.) ; leaves 1-2 ,fv 

 panicie contracted, branches short, spikelets ^\ in. very shortly pedicellea 



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