9i5G CXLVII. GKAMIXK.E. 



obtuse, with incurved margins, yellowish-white, very faintly 5-7-uerved ; 

 the palea crustaceous, elliptic, obtuse, with incurved margins, as long as 

 the glume. Isachne ohscurans, Woodr. in Gard. Chron. v. 23, ser. 3 

 (1898) p. 161, — Flowers: Nov.-Dec. Vern. Tdn-sawa. The whole 

 inflorescence breaks off and is driven about by the wind (Woodrow). 



Dkccan : Jeur near Sholapur, Woodrow ! Specimens in Herb. Kew. also grown from 

 seed in the Botanic Garden of the College of Science at Poona. 



The grain is used as a fast-day food and cooked like rice (^Woodrow). 



15. Panicum trypheron, Schuli. Mantiss. v. 2 (1824) p. 244. 

 Annual ; stems 1-3 tt. high, tufted, erect, or geniculate below, stout or 

 slender, leafy at the base ; nodes glabrous ; internodes 2-5 in. long. 

 Leaves 3-10 by ^-\ in., usually flat, thin, linear, acuminate, more or less 

 hairy on both surfaces, margins often ciliate, base narrow ; sheaths long, 

 glabrous or hairy, the margins often ciliate towards the top ; ligule 

 short, fimbriate. Panicle 4-10 in. long, often as broad as long, effuse ; 

 rhachis filiform, slightly scaberulous ; branches up to 4 in. long, 

 capillary. iSpikelets -jV^s "^- long, very distant, ovoid, acuminate, some- 

 times with a purple tinge, glabrous ; pedicels long or short, filiform. 

 Glumes 4 ; lower invol. -glume about f as long as the lower floral glume, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate, membranous, 5-nerved ; upper invol. -glume 

 slightly longer than the lower floral glume, ovate, acuminate, 7-9-neryed; 

 lower floral glume similar but shorter, 7-nerved, empty, paleate, the 

 palea oblong, obtuse, 2-toothed at the apex, smaller than the glume, 

 hyaline ; upper floral glume elliptic, obtuse, dorsally convex, smooth, 

 shining, yellowish-white, coriaceous, faintly 5-nerved, the margin very 

 slightly incurved, the palea elliptic, as long as the glume, coriaceous. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 7, p. 47; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 152; Woodr. in Jouru. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 434; Prain, Beng. Pi. p. 1176.— Flowers : 

 Sept. Yern. Bhatur. 



KoNKAN : Malabar Hill (Bombay). L/sboa. Peccan : Poona, Woodrow ; Jeur 

 (Sholapur districts), Woodrow ; Malhargad, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Bengal, 

 Panjab, W. Peninsula); Ceylon, China, Borneo, Trop. Africa. 



16. Panicum subeglume, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Pcfersb. ser. 6, v, 3, 

 part 2 (1835) p. 292. Perennial; stem slender, 1-2 ft. long, glabrous 

 or nearly so ; nodes glabrous or tomentose. Leaves 3-6 by 1-| in., 

 linear, finely acuminate, glabrous or softly hairy ; sheaths glabrous or 

 softly hairy ; ligule short, membranous. Panicle large, effuse, 3-7 in. 

 long, spreading ; rhachis capillary ; branches capillary, reaching 4 in. 

 lon<T, the lower suberect, alternate, often branched from the base ; 

 branchlets filiform. Spikelets pedicellate, y^-^- in. long, oblong-ellipsoid, 

 tapering to both ends, dorsally compressed, glabrous or silky. Invol. - 

 glumes very minute, hyaline, sometimes one (rarely both) obsolete ; 

 lower floral glume 5-7-nerved, elliptic-oblong, subacute, glabrous or 

 silky ; upper floral glume as long as the lower, elliptic-oblong, acute, 

 with membranous inflexed margins ; palea oblong, subacute, slightly 

 shorter than its glume, with membranous inflexed margins. I have 

 found the two invol.-glumes present (though exceedingly minute) in 

 many specimens that I have examined. Fl. \i. 1. v. 7, p. 51 ; Woodr. in 

 .lourn. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 434. Punicxm Torrei/anum, W. & A. 

 ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, v. 2 (1841) p. 264. — Flowers : Sept. 



S. M. CoLNTKv: Badanii, Woodrotc—Dibiuitt. Iiidiu (,\V. Peninsula). 



