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17. Panicum antidotale, Rdz. Ohs. fasc. 4 (1786) p. 17. A tall 

 glabrous pereuuial grass reachiug 5 ft. high ; rootstoek creeping, 

 stoloniferoLis ; stem solid, woody, terete, smooth ; nodes thickened, the 

 lower sometimes rooting. Leaves 6-24 by \-'^ in., linear, very finely 

 acuminate with capillary tips ; sheaths long, glabrous, striate, with 

 naked margins ; ligule short, membranous, jagged or fimbriate. Panicle 

 6-0 in. long, effuse, pyramidal ; rhachis very slender, angular, glabrous 

 or slightly scaberulous ; branches usually fascicled (the upper sometimes 

 solitary), 3-4 in. long, Bliform, spreading and drooping; brauchlets 

 capillary. Spikelets laxly crowded on the brauchlets, reaching ^ in. long 

 or slighrly longer, ovoid, acute, glabrous, (xlumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume 

 I as long as the upper, broadly ovate, subobtuse, 3-nerved, hyaline ; 

 upper invol.-glume broadly ovate, acuminate, 7-9-nerved, membranous ; 

 lower floral glume equal and similar to the upper invol.-glume, paleate, 

 empty or male, the palea obloug, subacute, hyaline, as long as the glume ; 

 upper floral glume coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, with incurved margins, 

 dorsally smooth, yellowish-white ; palea thinly coriaceous, ovate, acute, 

 as long as the glume. Anthers linear-oblong. Styles 2, distinct, con- 

 spicuous, very plumose. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 52 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, 

 p. 156 ; Uuthie, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 3 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 434.— Flowers : Mar. 



S. M. Country : Londa, Woodrow. Gujarat : Katliiawar, Woodrow, 44 ! Sind : 

 Stocks, in!^9 I ; Sukkur, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Panjab and upper Gangetie plain, 

 W. Peuiusula) ; Ceylon, Afghanistan, Trop. Africa and Australia. 



18. Panicum proliferum, Lam. Encyc. Method, v. 4 (1797) p. 747. 

 Vak. paludosum, Stapf\ in Dyer, Fl. Caj^en. v. 7 (1899) p. 407. 

 Perennial ; stem simple or branched, 2-3 ft. high, leafy, ascending from 

 a creeping or floating spongy rootstoek which is sometimes as thick as 

 the little finger. Leaves 6-12 by l-f in., linear or ensiform, acute or 

 acuminate, flat, subcoriaceous, glabrous, base broad, subcordate ; sheaths 

 loose, glabrous, the mai'gins naked ; ligule a ridge ol fine hairs. Panicle 

 4-10 in. long, often as broad as long when spreading, sessile at the 

 mouth of the leaf-sheath or very shortly pedunculate ; lower branches 

 whorled and fascicled ; rhachis stout, angular, scaberulous ; branches of 

 panicle strict, naked below, bearing short erect flowering brauchlets about 

 the middle. Spikelets i-^ in. long, narrowly ovoid-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 greenish, solitary or 2-uate ; pedicels angular, scaberulous. Glumes 4 ; 

 lower invol.-glume not | the length of the upper, orbicular or reniform, 

 not nerved, hyahne; upper invol.-glume ovate, acuminate, 7-nerved, as 

 long as the lower floral glume ; lower floral glume similar, 9-nerved, 

 paleate or not, empty (rarely male) ; upper floral glume shorter than the 

 lower, oblong, acute, yellowish-white, smooth, shining, with incurved 

 margins ; palea as long as the glume, obloug, acute. Dr. Sfapf {I. c.) 

 states that the typical P. jproliferum is only to be found in the Atlantic 

 States of iSTorth America. Panicum iJroliferum, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 

 p. 50; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 155; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13(1901) p. 434; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1176. Panicum jxdudosum, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 307. P. decompositum var. paludosum. 

 Trim. Cat. p. 105. — Vebn. BorcUi. 



KoNKAN : Salsette, Lisbon. Decoan : Poona, Lisbua ; I,anoli, Lishoa. — Distrib. 

 Throughout the low countries of India in marshes and still vcatei-s ; Ceylon, S. Africa, 

 Tropics generally. 



