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 ^ Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 123 



Pericarp cnistaceous or fleshy free. 



Spikelets minute. Lodicules . . . . 51. Dinochloa. 



Spikelets moderately large or larger. Lo- 

 dicules generally present. 



Flowering glumes 1-2. Fruit small . . 53. Schizostachyuni. 



Flowering glumes 1. Fruit large . . 53. Ochlandra. 



Tribe I. Paniceae. 



1. Paspalum, L. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Inflorescence a simple spike or 

 several slender spike-like racemes. Spikelets 1 flowered subsessile 

 or distinctly pedicelled, on a flattened often winged rachis, articulate 

 on the pedicel but not thickened at the base. Glumes 3 with occa- 

 sionally a rudimentary 4th (corresponding to Glume I in Panicum) 

 I and II membranous thin, subequal, III more coriaceous. Stamens 

 3. Styles 2. Grain. 



Species about 150. All warm regions. 



Spikelets flattened orbicular. Glumes 3 very 

 coriaceous. 



Spikelets 2-4 ranked, glabrous . . . . 1. P. scrohiculatum. 



Spikelets 2 ranked, ciliate, rachis very narrow 2. P. conjngatum. 



Spikelets ovate oblong shortly pedicelled . . 3. P. distichum. 



Spikelets lanceolate sessile . . . . . . 4. P. pJatycaule. 



Spikelets ellipsoid or lanceolate in pairs on 



unequal pedicels (Digitaria). 



Spikelets ^ inch long lanceolate or oblong . . 5. P. sanguinale. 



Spikelets xV inch long glabrous, ellipsoid . . 6. P. longiflonun. 



Spikelets ^ inch long bearded . . . . 7. P. heteranthum. 



1. P. scrobiculatum, L. Mant. I. 29. Annual tufted erect or 

 occasionally decumbent 9 to 36 inches or more. Leaves -^ to | inch 

 across. Spikelets erect or spreading l|-3 inches long, alternate 2 

 to 6 or 7 pale green, sessile, rachis filiform or broad ^V ^^ J inch 

 wide edge white ciliolate. Spikelets in 2 or 3 rows, closely imbricate 

 sessile or shortly pedicelled yV to -I inch across orbicular obtuse or 

 subacute biconvex or flattened glabrous. Glumes I. and II. equal and 

 similar membranous planoconvex white edged green. Glume III 

 brown shining thickly coriaceous edges incurved over IV (palea) 

 orbicular brown coriaceous with two thin incurved wings enclosing 

 the grain. Stigmas purple grain biconvex. Eoxb. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 V. I. 278. Duthie. Field and Garden Crops 8 t. 27. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. III. 430. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 10. Common over the 

 whole peninsula. 



