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H. P. miliaceum, L. Tnic Millet. Stout evert 

 annual, with villous leafsheaths and ligule of hairs; panicle 

 with long erect branches but drooping at summit ; spikelets 

 all pedicellate, oval-acute ; lowest glume acuminate. 5- 

 nerved, one-third shorter than the many-nerved 2nd and 

 3rd glumes, the 3rd glume containing a palea half its 

 length ; flowering glume and palea white, smooth and 

 shining. 



Cultivated as fodder and subspontaneous in moist places. 

 — Dec.-Apl. — Egypt, Arabia. India. 



2. Pasp.\lum, L. 



(Greek paspalos, millet.) 



Spikelets along 1 side of the axis of slender spikes; 

 outer glumes 2, membranous, equal ; flowering glume and 

 palea a.s in Panic ii in. 



Spikes 2, terminal and close together P. (lixiirltinn 1 



Spilves several, distant and alternate on the 



stem 1'. iJUdttifn m 2 



1. Paspalum distichum, L. Perennial, with 

 ascending stems, cieeping and rooting at the nodes ; leaves 

 with a few long hairs at the sides of the blunt, short ligule; 

 spikes twin, 2-4 cm. (f-15 in.) long, dense, one risiiiii; a little 

 above the other at the end of the stem, at lirst appressed 

 together, afterwards erect-spreading; spikelets 3-4 mm. long, 

 oval-oblong, sessile in 2 rows along the flattened axis; outer 

 glumes 3-nerved; flowering glume 

 and palea .slightly shorter. 



Close to water; AVaterfall 

 Gully; River Torrens. — Dpc.- 

 ]Mar. — Tropical coimtiics. also 

 eastern Australia. 



2. P. dilatatum, Poiret. 

 Perennial, with tall, erect .stems 

 and creeping rootstock ; leaves 

 lonu, with lanceolate ligule and 

 ribbed sheaths; spikes 3-10, 

 dense, with long hairs at bas(\ 

 3-12 cm. (1^4i in.) h)ng, dis- 

 tant and alternate along the 

 stem, forming a long, narrow 

 panicle: .spikelets 3-4 mm. long, 

 o\al-acute, overlapping in 4 rows 

 on a flat, narrow axis; the lowcj- 

 spikelet on a short, the upper 

 on a long, jointed pedicel ; outer 

 glumes broad-oval, acute, the 

 lower one 5-nen-ed, villous on 

 back, ciliate with long soft hairs, 

 the upper glume 7-nerved ; 



Paspalum dilatatum. 



