///. Panicunu ' S|( 



tcs. Slamlna tria, anlheris luleis. Pislillura praesens, stylo sim- 

 plici, sterile ; sligmala duo. Flosculus superior hermaphroditus, 

 gluma superiori '/4 brevior, oblongus, obtusus , laevis, chartaceo- 

 carlilagineus, apice incurvus. Sligmata dense plumosa, sicca pallida, 



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Radii alterni, iubali vel paniculati, manifeste angulosi (ple- 

 rumque tricjuetri), nunc racemiformes (racemis compositis, pedicel- 

 lis brevissimis) , nunc virgati aut vario modo composili et decom- 

 positi, pedicellis brevioribus longioribusve. 



20. Vanicum paludosum Roxb. panicula raceraoso-decompo- 

 sita oblonga conlracta , ramis subverticillatis triquetris ramulisque 

 rigidis ad angulos scabris, spiculis ovalo-oblongis acutis glabris he- 

 migamis, gluma inferiori enervi late amplectCQle truncata, superiori 

 flosculique neutrius valvula inferiori aequalibus aculis, illa 9 — II- 

 nervi, hac novemnervi, flosculo hermaphrodito ovali-oblongo acuto 

 sublilissime striolato, culmo inferne nalante radicante crasso mulli- 

 nodi foliisque linearibus latiusculis complicalis glabris, his raargine 

 scabris. 



Panicum paludosum Roxb. Fl. Ind. or. ed. Car. et IVall. I. 

 p. oiO. n 43. iScMcU. Mant. II. p. 243. n. 81 d. Kunth. 

 En. I. p. 126. n. 3o2. {excl.syn. Andropogon squarrosus Kdn.) 

 Trm. Panic. retract. p. 179. 



Panicum natans Koen. {teste Triii.) 



In aquis quielis regionis raontanae, Circars dictae, Ind. or. 

 Roxb.; in Himalayae iugo, Royle. 



In ripa fluvii Zontagsrivier alt. loOO'; in ripa Basche fluvii 

 alt. SOO', et in paludibus ad ostia fluminis Omsamculo, (Dr^ge). ^. 



Species sat distincla culmo quam pro proceritate crasso, flui- 

 tante, dein erccto, foliis 2 — 5 lin. ialis breviacutatis, panicula 

 parva 4 — 7 poll. longa, ramis rigidis triquetris margine aculeato- 

 scabris, spiculis pallide viridibus aculis nervoso-striatis gluma in- 

 fera truncata, superiori scxlnplo breviori, late amplectente enervi 

 tanquam cingulo ad basin circumdatis. Gluma superior in noslris 

 ll-nervis (7 — 9.nervem Trinius perhibet). Flosculi neutrius val- 



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