58 'CLXxiii. GRAMINE-E. (J, D. Hooker.) iPanienm. 



thin, finely acnminate ; margins and mouth of sheath ciliate; ligule rounded. Panicle 

 2-5 in., usually inclined with spreading glabrous or puberulous branches naked 

 below, and very long distant spreading brauchlets. SpikaUts ^^^ in, long, — Very 

 variable in the size of the whole plant and of its leaves and pnuicle. The smaller 

 forms agree with the specimens of P. patens in the Linn^an Herbarium, and are 

 Wallich's n. 8740, and n. 8738 C. ; the larger are P. accresc^ns of Triniua (referred 

 by himself to ohliquumy Koth.), and are VVallich's 8738 A. B. D. A small variety? 

 With larger spikelets, neaily ^ in. long, occurs in the Milgliiris {Herb, Wi'jf^^ 

 n. 3047); at Goodavery Ghats, Lawsoni and in Ceylon, at Newera Elia (C.P. 

 n. 886), 



53. P. longrlpes, Wight et Am, in WigU Cat n. 3638; tall, leave* 

 4-10 itj., panicle 5-10 in. fastigiately supra-decompound, branches ana 

 long pedicels capillary, spikelets -^^ in. glabrous, gl. I nearly = HI ovate 

 acnminate o-nerved, II and III acute. Aira capillaris, Heyne in Herb* 

 Rotiler, & in Wall Ca^.— Panicuni, Wall. Gat n. 8741. 



TfiLGHiRi and Pulney Hills, Heyne^ &c. ; Karkun Ghat, alt. 2000 iU 

 Lav;son. 



Stem 2-3 ft. and upwards, as thick as a crow-quill, quite smooth, base decumbent. 

 Leaves J-f in. broad, finely acuminate, narrowed and sparsely hairy at the base, 

 finely puberulous beneath; sheath nearly glabrous; hgule rounded. Panicle sub- 

 fastigiately branched; branches simple sometimes naked below tor an inch ana 

 more, then fastigiately branched. Spikelets \)a\e brown ; gl.lland III with sparingly 

 ciliolate tips. — Distinguished from P. patens by the greater size, robuster habit, 

 and much larger spikelets with acute glumes. What may be a amall state of it was 

 found nt Golaghat, Seebsagur, by Clarke. Compare also the form of P. patens with 

 larger spikelets. 



54. P. sparslcomum, Nees ex Steud, Syn. Gram, 83; stem filiform 

 diffusely branched, leaves 1-2^ in. softly pubescent, panicle effuse ot few 

 lon« capillary brancbea and bianchlets, spikelets y^ i^- oblong glabrou*?, 



fl. I = ^ III faintly 3-nerved, II longest and III ovate-lanceolate acute 

 -nerved, IV thin pale. Wight Cat n. 1636 {name). Agrostis zeylanicar 

 Merb. Wight ; Klein ex Steud, I c. 83. 



Cetxon ; Cookie or Cocklaj. Jan. 23rd, 1796, Heyne in Herh. Eotth , 



Stems 6-18 in., almost capillary, rooting at the nodes. Leaves i-i !"• brofto* 

 acuminate, hairy on both surfaces; sheaths and their mouths hairy. Panicle oa a 

 filiform peduncle, 3-4 in. long and broad. Spikelets few, distant; gl. IV np^ ^2 

 strongly laterally compressed and gibbous as in its allies.— A very distinct species, * 

 think, but not easily characterized. 



Sect. IX. PsETiDECHiNOL^NA. (See p. 28.) 



66. P. tmcinatum, Raddi AgroMt. Bras. 41 ; Trin. Gram. Pati^e- 

 174, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 216; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 172; Steud. Sy^ 

 Gram. 60 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Zcylan. 359 ; JVim. Cat. Cei/l. PI. 105. ^' 

 echinatum, Willd. ex DoeJl in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II, 193. P. glandnlosuoi' 



':'anic. 174. P. heteranthnm, Link Envm. Hort. Ber(>j- 

 i. 212. P. nemorosuni /3, Trin. I. c. 174. P. Trinii, Mor. Svst. Verz. ^;'f'' 

 102 Echinolaena polystachya, Jf. B. & K. Nov. Gen. Sf Sp. i. 119. *• J'^' 

 Kunth I. c. i. \7'2, Suppl. 127. Cenchrus lappacens, Eerb. Hei/tie. ? L'^P' 



Spreng. Neue Entdeck. iii. 15.— Echinol»na, Wall. Cat. B- 

 661. 



Eastern Himalata; from Nepal to Sikkiin. nit. 3-6000 ft. Khasia, N^g*' 



Nees ex Trin. Gram. Panic. 174. 



