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(5, ii. 1809), Rottler (H. C. Wight, no. 1637), and without precise 
locality, Walker; Thwaites 788. Madras Presidency : Courtallam, 
Wight, Distr. no. 3048. Chingleput Distr. ; Kambakam Drug, Bourne, 
2478, and without precise locality, Herb. Heyne in Herb. Wallich, 
8743 A and B. Bengal: Hugli Distr.; Howrah, Nusker, 1304; near 
the Calcutta Botanic Garden, Wallich, 8743 C. 
Cyrtococcum corresponds to Hooker’s Section Gibbosae (Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vol. vii. pp. 28, 56) and Presl’s Section Steirachne (Rel. Haenk. 
p. 309), both of Panicum (sensu lato). The genus is easily recognised 
by the laterally much compressed spikelets and the peculiar shape of 
the fruiting floret, to which the tightly enclosed caryopsis conforms. 
The fruiting floret, or ‘ false fruit,’ is so much curved or gibbous on 
the back that it has even been described as semilunar. The back is 
rounded and the broad smooth sides are almost flat and parallel. ey 
h ; 4 
ns, L.), C. radicans (P. radicans, Retz; P. obliquum, Roth ; 
P: carinatum, Presl; P. gibbum, Steud.), C. acerescens (P. accrescens, 
Trin.), C. longipes (P. longipes, Wight ex Hook. f.), and C. Warburg 
(P. Warburgii, Mez). The combinations are mine. P. multinode, 
‘Lam. of Mauritius, quoted by Hooker (FI. Brit. Ind. vol. vii. Pp. 57) 
as possibly identical with Panicum pilipes, Nees & Arn. ex Buse, 18 
an entirely different species of Panicum (sensu meo). 
