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glume much smaller than the lower, ovate-oblong, acute, quite smooth, 

 white, dorsally convex with involute margins, thinly coriaceous ; palea 

 as long as the glume. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 42; Trim. F\. Ceyl. v. 5, 

 p. 148; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. Vd (1901) p. 434; Prain, 

 Beng. Pi. p. 1175. 



KoNKAN : S5,vantTadi, Woodrow ; Alibag, Lisboa. — Distrib. Throughout the hotter 

 parts of India ; Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, China, Australia, Trop. Africa. 



13. Panicum turgidum, ForsTc. Fl. JEgi/pt.-Arab. (1775) p. 18. 

 Perennial, glabrous, glaucous ; rootstock sometimes as thick as the little 

 finger ; root-fibres thick, velvety ; stem hard (bamboo-like), solid, smooth 

 and polished, -xV"! i^^* ^^ diam. about the middle,- emitting from the 

 nodes fascicles of branches in tufts from a swollen base. Leaves few, 

 those at the base of the stem and branches 1-3 in. long, flat, coriaceous, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, those of the upper nodes often 

 reduced to open chartaceous sheaths with a setiform blade. Pauicle 

 terminal, subpyi'amidal, 1^-4 in. long ; branches at first erect, then more 

 or less spreading, |-1| in. long ; rhachis angular, grooved, glabrous. 

 Spikelets g— ^ in. long, solitary, or rarely 2-nate, subsccund, ovoid, turgid, 

 glabrous, white ; pedicels short or long, with a cupular tip, scaberulous. 

 Glumes 4, subcoriaceous ; lower iuvol. -glume scarcely shorter than the 

 upper, and about equalling the lower floral glume, broadlj'^ ovate, acute, 

 concave, 5-7-nerved ; upper invol. -glume broadly ovate, acute, 7-nerved ; 

 lower floral glume ovate, acuminate, 9-nerved, paleate, male ; upper floral 

 gluDie much smaller than the lower, ovate-oblong,, acute, smooth, 

 polished. Anthers purple. Stvles short ; stigmas short, pale purple, 

 n. B. I. V. 7, p. 44 ; Delile, PI.' d'Bgypte, p. 19, t. 9, fig. 2 ; Duthie, 

 Podd. Grass. N. Ind. p. 13; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (1901) p. 434. — Flowers : Nov. The plant grows on arid or desert 

 plains. 



GujAKAT : Eajkot (Katliiawar), Woodrow. Sind : Duthie. — Distrib. Belucbistan, 

 Egypt, Arabia, Trop. Africa. 



14. Panicum obscurans, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 434. Annual ; stems tufted, erect or ascending, 1-2 ft. (or more) 

 high (in- specimens raised from seed by Woodrow at Poena, in the 

 College of Science Botanical Garden, the stem is simple and about 3 ft. 

 high) ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 3|-5 by | in. at the widest part, 

 lanceolate, acute, with a few scattered hairs above, hispid with bulbous- 

 based hairs below ; sheaths closely striate, hispid with short bulbous- 

 based hairs, the margins naked ; lignle a tuft of hairs. Panicle large, 

 15 by 12 in., pyramidal, lax ; branches of the panicle widely spx-eadiug, 

 laxly racemosely or subpauiculately branched, each branchlet 1-3-flowered 

 at the apex, naked below ; rhachis angular, grooved, scaberulous on the 

 angles. Spikelets distant, solitary, -^^ in. long, pedicellate, narrowly 

 ovoid, acuminate. Glumes 4, the 3 lower strongly nerved with green 

 nerves; lower invol.-glume | in. long, ovate, acuminate, shorter than 

 the upper, membranous, 5-nerved, the nerves scaberulous ; upper invol.- 

 glume -^ in. long, ovate, acuminate, 7-nerved ; lower floral glume rather 

 less than ^ in. long, ovate, acuminate, empty, paleate, the palea | as 

 lung as the glume, elliptic-oblong, hyaline, shortly 2-dentate ; upper 

 floral glume yu in. long, crustaceous, hard, smooth, coucave, elliptic, 



