60 CLXXiii. GRAMiNEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum, 



tichously spreading spikes. In t. 79B there are 10, all secamd. The gram of t. Ill is 

 ovate-lanceoliite, aeuniinate, with three dorsal lines; oft, 212 ovate-lanceolate, 

 acumiiiHte; of t. 7li6 elhptic-obloiig, acute. — It is eritlent that in this as in otli« 

 cases, Roxburgh had not named his Icones in accoi'dance with the descriptions prepared 



for the ** Flora Indica." 



P. SEKiCEUM, Soland. in Ait. Sort. Kew, 88, is a West Indian plant erroneously 



entered as from *' Ind. Or." b)' Steudel, 



P. siMPLiCTSsmuM, Koen, in Neue Schrift. Natuif. xxiii. (1788) 209 {em Inde^ 

 Kewensis), There is no such species described in the work cited, but Mr. Beadle 

 Las pointed out to me that at the bottom of the page Koenig mentions a very 

 fine grass sent by him to Dr. Solander, adding, *' Er hat eine Panicuiam simpli" 



cissimam." 



P. TEXTJE. Koxb. FL Ind. i. 310 ; stfm 1-6 ft. erect, ramous, panicle thin, spike- 

 lets binate on a commou hairy pedicel with unequal partial pedicels, gl. Ill paleate, 

 grain ovate transversely waved. — Wild in the Circar Mts. (/2oaj/>.), — Stem sometioiea 

 prostrate and rooting. Leaves large, upper surface hairy, margins with very sharp 

 points ; sheaths shorter than the intemodes, hairy, mouths bearded. Panicle erect, 

 till fruiting, then bowiug as in P. miliaceum, of alternate compound nearly secuad 

 racemes ; rachis 4-5-angled, branchlets 3-angled, tlexuous hairy. Spihelets smooth, 

 gls, many-nerved. III male in luxuriant plants. — I have altered Roxburgbs 

 phraseology to bring it into harmony with that of this work. I have seen no pla»' 

 answering to the above description except perhaps a small state of P. maximum* 



P. TRACHTPirs, Trin, Panic, Gen. 170; rays subracemiform, shortly compouna 

 from the base alternate, ray lets spreading, pedicels very short, spikeleta Imeal obovae 

 submucronulate pubescent, gl. 13-4 times shorter than the spikelet, 3-nerved, 1^ 

 5-nerved, 4 mucronate rugose. Leaves glabrous lanceolate from a cordate base.-^ 



Nepal. 



P. TRIFLOEUM, Edffew, in Journ, As. 8oc. Beng. xxi. (1853), 157, 179; Duth^ 

 Grass, JS. W, Ind. 7, Fodd, Grass, iV. Ind, 13 ; Edgeworth's description will applj 

 to various species. 



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5. ZCKMANTBtJS, Swartz. 



Annnal or perennial branching grasses. Leaves broad. ^^'^^^^ 

 1^2-fld., long panicled, ovate or lanceolate, terete, articulate (but often pe^ 

 sistent) on their pedicels. Glumes 4, I II and III subequal or II longest 

 strongly nerved ; III paleate or not, male or neuter; IV much sbortestj 

 etipitate, paleate, bisexual, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, stipes ^ ^^^ 

 an anticons simple or 2-lid or 2 lateral appendages. Zodicules 2, ujinute. 

 Sidles free, exserted apically. Stamens 3. Grain coriaceous, acute ^ 

 acnminate, polished, articulate at the base of the stipes.— JSpecies aboii 

 20, tropical. 



This genus diifers from Panicum in the appendagcd base of gl. IV. 



1. 1. pallend, Munro in Benth, FL Ilongk. 414; stem slender elon- 

 gate, leaves broadly lanceolate, panicle open, rachis and subsecuo 

 branches slender, gls. spreading, 1 ovate-lanceolate acuminate, III palea^ 

 neuter or male, IV when mature exposed, turned on one sidp, ^^]?^^, 

 obtuse, appendages 2 adnate to its sides. Thu\ Fnum. PL Zeyf- ^!^y 

 Trim, Cat, CeyL PL 105. Panicum pallena, Swartz Prodr. 23, FL M' 

 Occ. i. 164; Kunih Enum. PL \^ 89; Nees Agrost. Bras, 137; Trin. J>r 

 Gram Jr. t. 211 ; Griseb, FL BriL W, Ind, 550, P, vicinum, 5a//j/ M/]" 

 Queensland FL in, 82. Apluda Zeygites, AuhL PL Gta'an. ii. 933 (^^^ 

 Syn,^. PAgrostia nutans, J'oir. EncycL SvjypL i. 255. 



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