Panicum.| GRAMINACEAE. 495 
Ae iene 
1a, ee ae Ieon. VIII, tab. 92. — Diss. II, 77. — A tufted 
grass, the stems 1—3 ft. high, decumbent-ascending, Jose ae below, 
‘once dividing or rehaaie with the last internode very long. Leaves flat, 
linear-lanceolate, very acute, 4—10‘ X< 5—6“, membranous, spinuloso- 
scabrous at the white and wavy margins, pubegcent with soft hairs on 
both faces but with longer ciliae at their bases, the carinate sheaths 
shorter than the internodes and densely pilose with patent or deflected 
hairs. Ligule short-ovate. Spike-like racemes 6—21, crowded at and 
near the apex of the stem, erect, generally simple, of uneven length, the 
lowest 5—7‘, one-sided with a flattened scabrous rhachis of about !/2“ in * 
width. se cuamnenae in pairs, one sessile, one pedicellate, slender lanceolate, 
flat-convex, 1!/2—13/4‘’ in length. Lowest glume wan ting, the second (in 
this species the first) very small, 1/« the length of the spikelet or less, the 
third (second) as long as the spikelet, empty, without palea, thin, Haripootite: 
acute, clasping, with ciliate margins, 5-nerved but the two lateral nerves 
n each side closely approximate, even confluent; the fertile glume little 
shorter than the last, stiff chartaceous, pale, lariceolate - acute, faintly 
pe 
the floret. — Kunth, Enum. Pl. I, 83. — Steudel, Synops. Pl. Glum. I, 38. 
— Digitaria prur sine Biine. — Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. III, 436. — Digitaria 
consanguinea, Gaud. in Bot. Freye. # 410 (not Pan. consanguineum, Kunth). 
— Paspalum cnn. Kunth, Hook. 
Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 100. igen ee sanguinale, Seem. in FI. Vit. p. 325 
as to the Hawaiian plant. — The numerous rays of the panicle occupy 
from 1—3 inches at the end of the stem, by far the greater number 
forming a thick fascicle at oH base of the panicle, only few rising from 
the top and ee spac 
A common s of the lower ed middle regions of all vege erage excellent 
fodder for cattle ‘end horses. Nat. name: «Kukai p also he Marqu uesas, 
second, and the confluence of the lateral nerves in the third 
our species but not adverted to by Trinius, whose description and gues were ta 
a plant from Nukahiwa. 
- P. filiforme, L. — Steud. Synops. Pl. Glum. I, 41. — Stems very slender, 
—2 ft. high, erect, the last internode very long. Leaves very narrow, less 
as 1“ broad, the lower sheaths hairy. Ligule ey jayne 
suberect, satenng approximate, their*rhachis filiform, ioapae é 
long. Spikelets in pairs, both shortly — (but the pedicels of 
unequal lect elliptical, acute, less than 1“ long. Lowest eh wanting; 
ken from 
the second (here the first) little shorter fee the spikelet, a 5-nerved, 
faintly pubescent along the margins; third (here second) glume as long as 
ile glume 
the spikelet, without palea, 7-nerved, with pubescent margins. Fe 
of the same length, stiff chartaceous, lanceolate. — Trin. Icon. tab. 148. 
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