938 cxLTii. gramixe.t:, 



19. Panicnm montanum, Roxh. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 313'. 

 Perennial ; stem 3-4 ft. high (or more), erect from a woody rootstock, 

 stiff, hard, solid, smooth, sparingly branched ; nodes glabrous, the lower 

 emitting long filiform roots. Leaves 5-7 by ^-1 in., spreading or 

 deilexed from the sheath, linear-oblong, acuminate, flat, smooth, many- 

 veiued, glabrous or ciliate near the base only, with slender midrib and 

 scaberulous margins, base broad, deeply cordate ; sheaths shorter than 

 the internodes, glabrous or pubescent, the margins naked or ciliate near 

 the top ; ligule of soft long hairs. Panicle 8-15 in. long, effuse, 

 copiously branched ; branches suberect or spreading, the lower branches 

 very long; rhachis of panicle and the branches more or less scaberulous. 

 Spikelets Yjj-g in- long, eUipsoid, obtuse, solitary, distant ; pedicels long, 

 capillary, erect. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume about | as long as the 

 spikelet (or more), ovate, subacute, 3-5-nerved, with ciliate margins ; 

 upper in7ol.-glume broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-nerved, sometimes with 

 ciliolate margins, subcoriaceous ; lower floral glume slightly longer than 

 the upper invol.-glume, broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-nerved, epaleate, sub- 

 coriaceous ; upper floral glume elliptic, subacute, faintly striolate, 

 coriaceous or almost crustaceous ; palea nearly as long as the glume, 

 elliptic, subacute, coriaceous, with intiexed membranous margins. PI. B. 

 I. V. 7, p. 53; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 155; Woodr. in Journ. Pomb.. 

 Nat. V. 13 (1901) p. 434; Prain, Beng. Pi. p. 1176.— Plowers : Jan. 

 VBiiisr. Tokarband. 



KoNKAN : Stocks !, Law ! ; Khardi (Tbdna districts), Lisboa. — Distrib. Hotter parts 

 of India ; Ceylon, Penang, Malaya, China, Philippines. 



20. Panicum patens, Linn. Sj^. PI. (1753) p. 58. Stem 1-2 feet 

 long, very slender, branched, creeping and rooting below ; nodes 

 glabrous, the lower emitting long, solitary wiry roots. Leaves |-3| 

 by |-i in., ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, thin, 

 glabrous or hairy ; sheaths with ciliate margins and mouth ; ligule 

 membranous, rounded. Panicle 2-5 in. long, usually inclined, effuse or 

 contracted; branches very slender, long, distant, naked below ; branchlets 

 capillary. Spikelets ^-^ in. long, gibbously obovoid, obtuse, glabrous, 

 laterally compressed, brown ; pedicels long, capillary. Glumes 4 ; lower 

 invol.-glume | as long as the spikelet, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, concave, 

 membranous, brown ; upper invol.-glume longer than the lower, but 

 shorter than the floral glumes, gibbous, concave, keeled, membranous, 

 brown ; lower floral glume as long as the upper, elliptic, obtuse, concave, 

 often ciliate at the tip, paleate, membranous, brown, empty, the palea 

 small, hyaline, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; upper floral glume glabrous, 

 very gibbous, with a protuberant rounded back, boat-shaped, coriaceous, 

 shortly stipitate, laterally compressed, white, shining ; palea as long as 

 the glume, elliptic with incurved margins. PI. B. 1. v. 7, p. 57; Trim. 

 Fl. Ceyl. v. 6, p. 159 ; Woodr. in^ Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 434. Panicum radicans, Eetz. Obs. fuse. 4 (1780) p. 18. — Plowers : 

 Dec. 



Kanaka : Kadgal (N. Kanara), Woodrow, 32 ! — Distrib. India (Sikkiin, Khasia IHIIb, 

 W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malay and Pacific Islands. 



