Panicim.] clxxiii. graminbjc. (J. D. Hooker.) 59 



«^a MuNKEPORB Hills, alt. 2-5000 ft. South Deccan, on the Shivagerry Hills, 

 iriffkt Cetlon, common — Distbib. Trop. Asia and America. 



Perennial. S/e^n decumbent, straggling and branched below; branches 4-18 in., 

 l^«fy, slender. Leaves 2-4 in., ovate-lanceolate, membranous, flat, base narrow 

 ooiique; sheath ciliate; ligule oblong, scariou^. Panicle 1-3 in.; branches 2-6, 

 aistant. gpiciform, flexuous, scaberulous, " •' ^- - ^ '- -^^^ o ^-.- 



-^»' leu, mspid, hairs sometimes hooked; III broadly ovate, obtuse, y-nerved, 

 Pieate, male, green, sides centre and obtuse tip broadly hyaline, lateral nerves 

 7^T^^l^^^^ ' ^^ cy^ibiform, shorter than III, laterally compressed, thinly coriaceous. 



BOUBTFTTL AND EXCLTTDEB SPECIES. 



& 



p. ramosum, 



f^Z^Lr'-J^ ^°*^ ^-c. p. paradoxum, Eottl. mss. ex Roem. ^ Sch. I.e.. is 



luni'k^r^^^^^^^' -^**^- *'" ^«*^- ^»cycl. Suppl. ii. 274 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 235 ; 

 ttronl i""^' ^'- ^- ^^^ ' '^*^'^- ^y»- Gram. 82, is, I suspect, an American species, 

 ^.^ueously described as E. Indian. There is no Indian Panicum at all answering 



p *^<*^STAT0M, Edffew. in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xxi. (1852) 157 ; name only, 

 lio^rfr,^^^^' ^"igevo. in Index Kewensis, is an error for Pennisetun araneosum, 

 a^w (= Peon, lanugiuosum). 



•Pecies^°*"^^"^' ^'^36^- ^- c. 157, 179. 187; tte description will apply to varioua 

 3«tfr'irJnab?e*^°^°^^' ^°*''" ^^'^y''^' ^"^PP^- '"• 283 ; Kunlh Bnum. PI. I 131 is un- 



an I^i'dim p'i^^^^' ^^*''' ^^'- "■'• 9' and iv. 16 ; Steud. Syn. Oram. 83, described as 

 "wtrtco,^ K 1^ °,^ Koenigr's by Retz., is doubtfully reft-rred to the Brasilian Isachne 

 ''Pillare I • u^ '" ^^''^^- ^^- ^ras. ii. II, 274. Retz describes it as being like 



P PUflM"°iJ- ^'^'^ *''^ no^^s bearded by reflexed hairs. 

 134, is unrf J' • "' *^ Naturf. xxiii. (1788) 209 ; Gmel. Sysi. 162 ; Kunth I. e. 

 •""•led to K ^""*^^®*~'^'"- I^e"dle informs me that this probably refers to a plant 

 lambent P ^"^"'g in his correspondence (now in the British Museum) as " a 

 •^fyre it had r//"^' ^''O'^'ng io rice-fields, in which the panicle flowered almost 

 ^''^hea othpr • ■ sleuth, often a larva is found in the flo^-er when the latter 

 ^'"■ing the n *^ k* ^^ C'I'Jhcous." A diseased Panicum (possibly P. pst^o/'oa'«'») 

 '^e plant ~T « t f.' *"*«"'♦/«'•"»», Koen. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit, is presumably 



I*. Heyvm I 1^^**'''^ spikelets to be frequent in P. psilopodium. 

 "^long nantl • *^ ^°'"- ^P- 49 ; Kunth I. c. 130 ; Steud. I. c. 80 ; branches of 

 *''^^"i hvp^cLT'''^ divided, base hairy. lowest whorled with fascicled flexnous 

 •pikelet, leam 1 ^^^'^^^^ solitary alternate, gl. I cordate obtuse embracing the 

 ^- iNpiDvjM s;*'^/ ^^^^^^^' margins and mouth of slieath hairy, 

 t n ^- Kcnt„t',c. ■/■''"• ^'■""'- 63, is probably a Pa?palum. „ , -, t j, 



^ i^^'^tt. 701 P*4'"'*- ^•'"»- ^-i- IT. ii. 258. P. orthum, Foi^< Mart. Suburh. 

 r"' ^P. 38'- o-/?''"dostricta, Steud. Syn. Gram. 39; Dipitaria strict^, Roth 

 ^ ^*^« faUed to'id. ?-7'' ^ '^'•''=^*' ^'''»'A le/.is. Gra»i. i. 47, Enum. PI. i. 157. I 

 ,..^-J'KPBN8 »^ A% "^P''^"*^- It is possibly a Pa5;)a^«m. 



f '?'•<« thus n«,^ "f*- ■^'^- ^^^'^^ t. Ill, 112, 796. Three plants of the section Bra. 

 p ''■"' descrintf" ' * "'"''' '" ^"^burgli's collection of drawings, none of them answering 

 V r*P«««, Linn A n^'"^ ^^ ^1. lud. (which I take to be P. r«^<<um). nor to the 

 .}^, crepn;„» l" . -^^ «re represeiitod hs nprfp^f.Iv o-labrous. with stem l-i-l» m. 



aK«„4. ;„^"'>-'»j pairea, green; g. l t-* ^^^y o-"«="^"; *" " T. 

 "^°"t 10. distichously Bpreadingf In t. 112 there are about 20 d.s 



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