030 CXLTII. GRAMTXE.'E. 



many, |-1^ iu. long, sessile, longer than the internodos, often appressed 

 to the rhachis ; rhaehis of spikes flattened. Spikelets Y^-g in. long, 

 ovoid, acute, glabrous, 2-seriate, imbricate. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.- 

 giume ^\y in. long, broader than long, thinly membranous, without nerves, 

 white ; upper invol.-glume ovate, acute, concave, thinly membranous, with 

 5-7 green nerves, slightly shorter than the upper tioral glume ; lower 

 floral glume subcoriaceous, 5-7-nerved, paleate, empty or male ; upper 

 floral glume broadl}^ ovate, mucronate, thinly coriaceous, smooth or nearly 

 so ; palea with inflesed membranous margins. Trim. !F1. Ceyl. v. 5, 

 p. 135; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1174. Panicum jiaspaloides (pasjKilodes), 

 Pers. Syn. v. 1 (1805) p. 81; Hook. f. El. B. I. v. 7, p. 30; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 433. 



Balzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Sind : Stocks ! ; Manchar Lake, Stocks !, 

 Woodrow. — DisTRiB. More or less throughout India; Ceylon, Afghanistan, Arabia, 

 Tropical Africa and America. 



4. Panicum stagninum, Retz. Ohs. fasc. 5 (1789) p. 17. Annual 

 or perennial ; root-llbres many, long, wiry, with numerous fihform 

 rootlets ; stem erect from a geniculate or prostrate base, reaching 5 ft. 

 (or more) long, sometimes rooting from the lower nodes. Leaves 6-18 

 by g-| in., linear, tapering to a fine point; sheaths striate, smooth, 

 glabrous; ligule a fringe of stiff hairs. Panicle 4-8 in. long; rhachi 

 slender, more or less flexuous, angular, grooved, scabrid on the ridges 

 and with scattered bristles ; branches few or many, distant or close, 

 alternate, usually subereet, 1-2 in. long, sessile or nearly so with a tuft 

 of hairs at the base ; rhachis of the branches angulai", grooved, clothed 

 sparingly with bulbous-based hairs. Spikelets crowded, ovoid-lanceolate, 

 l-l in. long (excluding the awn), hairy with bulbous-based hairs, pale ; 

 pedicels very short with enlarged tips. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume 

 ji^ in. long (half as long as the spikelet), broadly ovate or suborbicular, 

 cuspidate, 3-nerved, hairy and ciliate, thinly membranous ; upper invol.- 

 glume I in. long (including the mucro), broadly ovate, concave, hairy and 

 ciliate with bulbous-based hairs, thinly membranous, 7-nerved in the 

 upper part with green nerves, acuminate or produced into a short com- 

 pressed scabrid awn ; lower floral glume like the upper invol.-glume 

 with an awn varying from ^-1 in. long, paleate, male, the palea hyaline, 

 as long as the glume ; upper floral glume ^ in long, ovate-lanceolate, 

 mucronate, straw-colored, shining, faintly striolate, with involute 

 margins, coi-iaceous : palea as long as the glume, elliptic-oblong, acute, 

 striolate, with inflexed mai-gins. Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 295 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 237 (misspelt stcu/inum) • Stapf, in Dyer, Fl. Capen. v. 7 

 (1899) p. 394. Panicum Crus-r/aUi var. sttn/ni mvn, Trim, ex Hook. f. 

 in Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 136; Prain, Beng. PL p. 1174. P. Crtis- 

 ffolli, AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 433 {not of Linn.). 

 OpUsmenus stagninus, Kuuth, Rev. Gram. v. 1 (1827) p. 44; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 292.— Flowers : Oct. 



Throughout the Presidency in wet places, especiallj- in cultivated ground and in 

 ditchf-s. — DisTRiB. More or less throughout India ; Ooylon, most warm countries. 



I do not believe that the true P. Criis-ffn/li of liiniuT'us occurs anywhere in the 

 Bombay Presidency, P. sfagnimon, whicli has been restored to specific rank by 

 Stapf (Fl. Capen. I.e.), iiaving been mistaken for it. Dalzell's Oplismemis Cruf-ffoUi, 

 whidi lias been cited in the ' Hora of British India' (v. 7, p. 'M) .^8 a synonym for 

 J'. Cvus-<jalli, is undoubtedly I'aincum Isachne. P. staf/niniim is a tall plant which 



