8t CLXXiii. GRAMIXK^E. (J. H. Hooker.) [Pennuetum. 



awn an inch long. Penicillaria cylindrica, S. i^ S, ; Wight Cat. n. 1662.— A 

 diseased form. 



Sect. II. Pi:NNisETUM proper. Anther-cells not "bearded. 



* BriBtles of involucel all free to the base, slender. 

 t Bristles hranched. 



1. P. lanatuniy Klotzsch in Bot. Erg, Waldem. Beise, 65, t. 93. 



P- senceum, Munro mss, P. nepalense, Griseb. in Goett.Nachr. C1868) 302 



{non SprengJ) 



Westkrk Himaxata, alt, 7-9000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Garwhal, and WssTEBif 

 Tibet, Jacquemont, &c. 



Perennial; rootatock often stout, woody, creeping and branching; stem 1-3 rt. 

 Leaves 6-18 by \-\ in., flat, glabrous hairy or silkily villous. Spikes 2-5 in., i-f 'U' 

 diain., pale green ; peduncle and rachis more or Jess villous ; involucels ppdicelle^t 

 densely imbricate. SpiJcelets \ in., solitary in the involucels, rather shorter than the 

 scahrid and sparsely ciliate branching bristles; gl, I = ^ III, ovate, acute; II = 

 \ IV, oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved, III and IV lanceolate, acuminate, 5-nerved. 



tt Bristles unhranchedy scaherulous, not or sparingly ciliate, 



2. P. Alopecuros, Stetid. Syn. Gram. 102 {non Jacq.) ; peduncle ana 

 rachis of spike glabrous, spikelets ^ in. solitary narrowly lanceolate,_gl- * 

 minute, II = ^ III oblong obtuse 1-3-nerved, III lanceolate acuminate 

 7-11-nerved, IV subulate-lanceolate 5-nerved. Duthie Grass. N^W. I^^; 

 10 ; Lishoa iv Joxirn, Bomb. Nat Hist. Soc. v. (1890) 338. P. Hohenackeri, 

 HorhsL ex Steud. l. c. 103. P. anreum, Balz. & Gibs. Bomb: Fl 2J4; 

 ? Link. Hort, Berol. i. 215. Gymnothrix Alopecnros, Nees in Wight C<^^' 

 n. 1663; Steud. I.e. G. cenchroides, Boem. & Srh. Syst. ii. 499; Kunfh 

 JEnum. ri. i. 155 ; Wight ex Steud Syn. Gram. 102. Cenchrus hordeiformia. 



B'erh. RotfL ear Sttud, I.e. 102 {non Thunh,). Panicnm helvolnm, Eerb. 

 Madr. ex Wall. Cat n. 8652 A. Pan. hordeiforme, Thunb. Fl Japon, 4b 

 (partly). —Gymnothrix P Wall. Cat. n. 8652. 



Ra JPUTANA ; swamps on Mt. Abu, Duthie. The Concan, Stoclcs, &c. Nii-GH^^^ 

 Hills, alt. 5500 ft. 



Perennial. Stems 2-3 ft., stout, erect, densely tufted below, subdistichously 

 hranchiug upwards ; branches strict, erect. Leaves 12-18 by to~o ^"'j cori«ceons 

 convolute, glabrous, base and flattened distichous sheath often villous; ligule |^* 

 hairs. S^nkes 5-7 in,, usually pale green; rachis flexuous ; involucels very shortly 

 pedicelled; bristles few, very unequal, newrly straight, longest 2-3 times as 1^°?-*' 

 the spikclet, bases quite free; gl. I suborbicular. — Habit of P. compressum, H'^ 

 F. anreum of the Bombay Flora is, I do not doubt, P. Alopecurosy but what P. aureuff^ 

 of Link may be is uncertain. 



3. P. flaccidum, Griseb. in Goett. Naehr. (1868) 86; peduncle ati^ 

 rachis of spike glabrous, spikelets J in. solitary ovate-lanceolate, gl. I ^^^ 

 small orbicular or 0, II = § IV lanceolate 5-nerved, III and IV ovate- 

 lanceolate subsetaceonsly acuminate 5-nerved. Duthie Grass. N.W.Ijtd.V^- 

 P. mongoUcum, Franch. mas. Gymnothrix flaccida, Munro ex Aitehis. G(^^' 

 Panjah. PL 163. 



Temperate and alpine Himalaya, alt. 5-11,000 ft.; from Kashmir toW. Nepal 

 and WkstKBnTibkt.— DisTBiB. Affghan., Central Asia. 



Perennial. Stem 6-24 in., den'<ely tufted, creeping below, branching at the ha? 

 only, sleud-.r above. Leavet 5-iO by ^-i in., flat, glabrous or sparsely hairy, ^^^ 



