Paspalum. ] Graminee. 315 
For P. scrobiculatum Linn. read: 
4. P. Commersonii Lamk. Ill. I, p. 175 (1791). P. scrobiculatum 
Hk. f. in Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V, p. 121 (1900) non Linn. 
5. BP. longifolium Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 280 (1814); Trin. Sp. 
Gram. Ic. p. 138 (1828). P. scrobiculatum Hk. f. in Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 
V, p. 121 (1900) var. 
Perennial, about 3 ft. high; stems erect; leaves 6-12 in. 
long, 0°3 in. broad, narrower than their sheaths, margin 
scaberulous, inrolled; sheaths about 6 in. long; spikes about 
6, subsessile, alternate; rachis nearly.., in. broad, glabrous; 
spikelets under #; in. long, suborbicular, glabrous; anthers 
dirty yellow; stigmas purple. 
Moist region, rather rare. Colombo; Deltota; Galagama. F's. 
May, July, Sept.—Nov. 
Also in India and Malaya. 
6. P. CONJUGATUM Berg. 
An American species now wild in Ceylon. 
7. P. piLiTatuM Poir. in Lamk. Encycl. V, p. 35 (1804). 
A native of Brazil, much cultivated as a fodder grass under the name 
** Prostrate Paspalum ’’; it is also called ‘‘ Dallis grass ’’ in other 
countries. 
8. P. LarranaGal Arech. 
Upright Paspalum or Vasey grass. 
ia. DIGITARIA Haller (non Heister). 
(Syntherisma Walt). 
Annual or perennial grasses; spikelets abaxial, awnless, 
lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, in slender spiciform racemes, 4; 
el. I, if present, hyaline, minute; gl. II membranous; g1. III 
5-7 veined; gl. [V more or less chartaceous, usually 3-veined; 
palea 2-nerved; stam. 3; styles 2, free; stigmas plumose, 
exserted near the top of the floret; grain oblong, slightly 
compressed dorsally, free but tightly compressed between 
the hardened glume and the palea.—Sp. 100; cosmopolitan. 
Page 123.—For Paspalum sanguinale read: 
1. Disitaria marginata Link. Hort. I, p. 229 (1827). Paspalum 
sanguinale var. commutatum Hk. f. in Fl. Brit. Ind. VII, p. 15 (1897). 
P. sanguinale Hk. f. in Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V, p. 123 (1900) pp. non Lamk. 
Syntherisima marginatum Nash in North Ann. FI. XVII, p. 184 (1912). 
P. sanguinale Hk. f. may also include D. horizontalis Willd. (Syn- 
therisma digitata Hitchc.), D. pruriens Buse and D. rhopalotricha 
Buse. 
Page 124.—For Paspalum longiflorum read: 
2. Digitaria longiflora Pers. Syn. I, p. 85 (1805). Paspalum 
longiflorum Koenig, in Retz. Obs. IV, p. 15 (1786). 
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