139. GBAMINE.E. [43. Panicum. 



that of gundli contracted or sub-eflfuse, 3-8" long. Spikelets mostly 

 paired, unequally shortly pedicelled, -1— 11" long, erect, lanceolar, 

 very acute. Pedicels with small cupular tips. Gl. i j-ith iii, hyaline 

 or white amplexicaul truncate nerveless or 3-nerved ; ii membranous, 

 broadly ovate acuminate 5-7 -nerved ; iii similar, male or neuter, paleate 

 (or not, J.D.H.) 7-9-nerved, palea 2-nerved truncate ; iv narrow- 

 elliptic acute -09" nerveless, polished, sides embracing the palea. 



Aquatic or semi-aquatic, common. Purneah ! Santal Parg. {Wall. 8710/)! 

 Ranchi, Clarke ! Manbhum, Camp. ! Singbhum I Pari, sandy tracts, Walsh ! 

 Fl., Fr. July-Dec. 



Said to be a good fodder. It is undoubtedly closely allied to P. mUiare thoiigh 

 placed far from it in the floras. Stapfsetys gl. ii 9-7-nerved. 



6. P. proliferum, Lamk. 



A large grass. Stem creeping or floating at base, rooting at the 

 often black nodes as in the last species, often -3—5" diam., much 

 branched with inflated striate leaf-sheaths, erect for 2-3 ft. Leaves 

 3-12" by •25--7" tapering from base to apex, or linear, margins sca- 

 bridly serrulate. Panicle 3-8" long with many erecto-patent branches. 

 Spikelets -12-- 14" long erect lanceolar acuminate on scabrid angled 

 pedicels. Gl. i -03" rarely -04" long, white, suborbicular ; ii lanceolate 

 acuminate 9 -nerved ; iii similar, paleate or not, male or neuter, 

 occasionally 2-sexual {F.B.I, ip. 51) ; iv oblong sub-acuminate -09" 

 long, pale brown smooth and polished. 



Marshy places and tanks. Sikkim Tarai ! and probably Purneah. Monghj-r 

 Mokim ! ' Santal Parg., Kusker, etc. ! Sargujah, Clarke ! Fl., Fr. Ang.-Nov. 



Leaves rounded at base, ligule of stiif hairs. Panicle branches 3-quetrous vritli 

 scabrid angles. Pedicels mostly much longer than the spkts-, with clavellate 

 truncate tips. 



7. P. trypheron, Schult. 



A tufted grass, slender upwards, 6"-3 ft. high, usually leafy only 

 near the base. Leaves narrow-lanceolate or linear 2-8" long, usually 

 copiously hairy on both surfaces with tubercle-based hairs, rarely 

 glabrous. Panicle open but often rather narrow from the branches 

 being short or suberect, up to 9" long in the larger plants. Spikelets 

 unequally slenderly pedicelled in pairs and single on the branchlets, 

 •12" long, at first oblong but soon with open glumes. Gl. i J- frds 

 of iii, base amplexicaul, 4-5-nerved, acuminate or cuspidate ; ii in- 

 serted some distance above i, elliptic long-acuminate or aristulate, 

 9-nerved ; iii similar but acumen rather shorter, paleate, neuter ; iv 

 oblong but rather narrowed to the rounded tip, -09" long, polished 

 yellow (variable in breadth and in colouring, from pure white to 

 greenish brown with 3-5 darker dorsal stripes, J.D.H.). 



Purneah, Kurz\ Santal Parg. (Rajmahal Hills), Kurzl Monghj-r, Mokim I 

 Ranchi, Woodl Hazaribagh, very common! Manbhum, Camp. I Bai-e stony 

 ground. Puri, iV. 4" C. ! FL, Fr. Sept.-Nov, 



Ligule sliort, fimbriate or of hairs. The divergent cuspidate glumes make this 

 species easily recognizable. 



8. P. maximum, Jacq. Syn. P. jumentorum, Pers. ; Guinea Grass. 



A very large coarse tufted perennial 6-10 ft. high usually bearded 

 at the nodes with lower leaves 2-3 ft. long by -5-1" gradually narrowed 

 from the small rounded or auricled base to the long hlif orm tip, sheaths 



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