934 CILVII. GRAMINEJE, 



broadly ovate-oblong, rugulose, the tip rounded, abruptly cuspidate 

 with a long mucro, concealed by the lower glumes, and with a 

 crustaceous palea. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 35 ; Trim. El. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 142 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 433 ; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1175. Panicum Helopiis, Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 10 

 (partly). UrocMoa panicoides, Beauv. Agrost. p. 53 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 290. — Flowers : Aug.-Nov. Veen. Phadya ; Kuri. Distinguished 

 from P. ramosum by the awned upper floral glume. 



Dalzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! ; common in cultivated plains, Lisboa. 

 Deccan : N. Khandesh, Woodrow ; Poona, Woodrow, Jacquemont, 390 ! ; Dapuri near 

 Poona, Jacquem 071 f, 4821 S. M. Cointry: Badami, Woodrow. Gujakat: Baroda, 

 Cooke !— DisTRiB. Plains of India ; Ceylon, Tropics generally. A good fodder grass 

 for horses and cattle. 



11. Panicum interruptum, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1 (1797) p. 341. 

 A large perennial grass, quite glabrous ; stem reaching 5-6 ft. long, 

 ascending from a stout creeping and rooting or floating rootstock ; lower 

 nodes emitting fascicles of long stout roots clothed with root-hairs ; 

 upper internodes very long, slender. Leaves 6-12 by |-| in., linear, 

 finely acuminate, soft, flat, glabrous, with smooth or scaberulous margins, 

 base rounded or subcordate ; sheaths 2-4 in. long, with smooth margins ; 

 ligule short, broad, membranous. Inflorescence a spike-like panicle 

 6-12 by \-^ in., cylindric, interrupted below ; rhachis stout, strict, 

 channelled. Spikelets ^-i in. long, densely crowded in small fascicles, 

 subsessile or shortly pedicellate, spreading, ovoid-lanceolate, acute, green. 

 Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume scarcely -^ in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 hyaline, 3-5-nerved ; upper invol.-glume ovate, acute, herbaceous, 

 membranous, prominently 9-nerved ; lower floral glume about equalling 

 the upper invol.-glume, ovate, acute, 7-nerved, paleate, male or barren, 

 the palea hyaline ; upper floral glume shorter than the lower, ovate- 

 oblong, subacute, thinly coriaceous, white, polished, dorsally convex, the 

 palea thinly coriaceous, as large as the glume. Anthers purple, much 

 exserted. Grain obovoid, apiculate. PI. B. I. v. 7, p. 40 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 316 ; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 147 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 433 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1175.— Flowers : Oct.-Feb. 



KoNKAN : Stocks], Lmvl; Pdnvel, Woodrow, Vingorla, Woodrow; margins of 

 tanks throughout the Konkan, Dalzell cf Gibson. S. M. Country : Londa, Woodrow ! 

 SiND : Wood7-ow.—DiiiTRiJi. Throughout India in swamps; Ceylon, Malaya, Trop. 

 and S. Africa. 



12. Panicum myosuroides, R. Br. Prodr. (1810) p. 189. Stem 

 2-3 ft. long, erect, or shortly creeping below, rather stout, leafy ; 

 internodes 3-5 in. long. Leaves 6-8 by -^^ in., narrowly linear, 

 finely acuminate, margins smooth, base narrow ; sheaths 2-4 in. long, 

 with naked margins; ligule 0. Liflorescence a spike-like panicle 1^-8 

 by -V in., cylindric, erect or curved ; rhaehis grooved, glabrous. Spike- 

 lets innumerable, -^^ in. long or less, densely crowded in small fascicles, 

 very shortly pedicellate, globosely ovoid, obtuse, glabrous or pubescent, 

 green or ])urplish. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume about | as long as 

 the upper, ovate, subacute, 3-nerved ; upper invol.-glume ovate, obtuse, 

 conspicuously 5-9-uerved, glabrous or pubescent; lower floral glume 

 about equalling the upper invol.-glume, but broader, ovate, obtuse, very 

 concave, 5-9-nerved, glabrous or pubescent, paleate, empty ; upper floral 



