' 1 



S((aria.] CLxxiii. ORAMiifE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 79 



,^- -Pf «/''»^. PI 162; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 105; Miq. Fl. Lid. Bat. iii. 

 4Jb; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 8, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. x., i^wrfi. Grass. 

 ■J./niU; Griseh. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 654; ^ew^A. i'l Austral, vii 492; 

 f^t^bicFl. Germ. t. 47; ^o/ss. i?'?. Onejtf. v. 442; Baker Fl. Maurlt. 

 «^. b. aurea, fibc/isC. ex A. Br. in Flora, xxiv. (1841) 276. S. auricoma, 

 i-w*. w LoM(^. .Hoj-^. 5n7L 25. S. chrjsantha, Ee^nli. Norn. ii. 661. S. 

 Java, Kunth Rev. Gram. i. 46. S. helvola, Boem. 4' Srh. I. c. ; Miq. I. c. 467. 

 0- tmmitu'.-a & rubicunda, Dam. Ohs. Gram. Belq. 139. S. pumila, Sch. 

 mnt. u. 274. P S. sciuroidea, C. Muell. in But. Zeit. six. (1861) 316. S. 



otrf°o-' ^"'^^'^ ^'^««^- PI- i. 150. S. Ventenatii, Kunth Bev. Gram. i. 



i.t. d/. s. dasyura, Ilort. Hal. ex Schlecht in Linnxa, xxvi. (1853) 



.1 '^- Penicillata, Nees in Wall. Gat. n. 8640 A. B. C. E. Panicu'U 



£«, Tj'n ^' -^^''"- ^^ ^''^"^ Gram. Panic. 162. P. chrysanthum, Steud. 

 TO Jirf 2, u. 254. P. flavescftna. Mnminh. Meth. 206. P. dancum. Linn. 



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P. helvolum, Xi««. /. 



Sketoh '-iic^^' holcoides, Jacq. Eclog. Gram. t. 22. P. laevigatum, £'«. 

 ^^ ^. 1. 112. P. lutescens, Weig. Obs, 20. P. lutenrn, Guldenst. Beis, u. 



P. 



P. poly 



TT^//. ^^r^. 8(541 B. P. penicfllatum, JFiUd. ex Nees 



Pa/aTi li\ S' ^''^'^- ^'^ S'prcw^. Si/si i. 304. P. viride, Poll. Hist. PL 

 • • o». Penmsetum glaucam & helvolum, Br. Frodr. 195. 



HreSr^ ■^^'"'*' ^^Pecially lu cult. grouud.-DlSTRiB. All warm, temp, and 



''»Tow J,;, ,^ " ^~2 ft. erect or ascending, simple or brancl.ed. Leaves broiid or 

 Sp'Wrm? • f' ^^ ^y i >"•' flat, glabrous or sparsely hairy, margins scabn.l. 

 ^eo, rarpC-*^. cylindrie, 1-7 in., dense-fld., usually yellow, rarely purplish or 

 '•'f": bristll inte'rupted ; sometimes reduced to an ovoid head with very few fpike- 

 **">«* as Wr*'^"^^ ^-^2, very variable in length, from a little longer to four 

 »CDte. ITT^^' „ ''^°'"i spikelet; gl. I minute; II rather shorter than III, sub- 

 eoDTei "^"*"^ eiupty, sometimes paleate and male; IV broadly ovoid, very 



f '"bglobot?'"'"'-'"' ' S^- "I "^"^ IV equal and subsimilar in the ripe state, forming 

 ^'"esof invT*^"^^""^ '"&ose sphere i in. diam.. Ill paleate empty, I\ feui 

 ?'''»', W * ^ '"• P*^*^ rufous.-The Panjab, Aitchison, Western Bengd an^l 

 ■'■ "'Jtennedia't^s ^^""^^^"^^^ '"''™' ^"^ P'^^^^'^g i°to *''*-' ordinary state of the plant 



^^''« 8m£r*^''''.'''.,^^""'-o mss-; sterns 6-10 in. branched and decumbent below 

 Ir^ < el IV , '""/r" P'^"''^!" ^l in., ovoid nearly white, bristles of mvoh'cel 

 ^^^- n. 8641 V "'"' ^"'^ •^^'•""^'^ ru^^ose.-?S. imberhis Roe>n. 4- Sch. i..89l ; Tla/L 

 i''""«on,alt 4 ^n^''5^-''- P'uiicum Codaea, Herb. Ham. in »^'«"- '^«*- ^- ^•- 

 ^^-J'-s 'aud it^^ '^•' ^"t'^'^- Kbasia Hills, kit. 5000 ft., ClarA-e. The Concan, 

 ^,"«'PlHi.t w!!"^' ^'""'•-'^-Pn.bahlv the S. imherbis, of Africa, &c., but a 

 ^- ^^' ' 'om S. 7/JiJ7^' ''"'^^^ ^l-'l^^^. ^liffering in this respect and in the less rugose 



■'"'^'il s*?!^?^?***' ^'>^"'- & ScJi. Syst. ii. 489; panicle narrovvly 



btiiti 



sub 

 3Vi 



>7 y-/^- 105; .D«^;„-e (?rass. iV^. TF: 



■f"^- 5a<. iii. 466. S. vertidilata, Wall. Cat n. 8642 (D. in 



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