16 CLXXIIT. GRAMIXE/E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Paspalum, 



many, rachis narrowly winged, spikelets oblong-lanceolate acuminate more or Ics* 

 ciliate, gl. I half the length of III or less or minute ciliate. Pan. extensum, Net* 

 % Am. in Wight Cat. n. 2340 (which is Pan. dilatatum, Steud. I.e. 39). Pan. 

 nervosum, Rottler in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schrift. iv. (1803), 194 (not 

 Roxb). P. filiforme, Herb. Roxb. Common. This resembles a slender form of var. 

 commutatum, with reduced gl. I. 



Var. 8, debile ; small or dwarf, 4-10 in. high, much branched from the tufted or 

 prostrate or creeping base, glabrous or hairy, spikes 2-5 1-3 in. digitate or nearly 

 so slender, wings of rachis narrower than the midrib, spikelets lanceolate acuminate, 

 gl. I. from minute to nearly as long as III ciliate, II 5-uerved glabrous or ciliate. 

 Pasp. debile, Poir. Encycl. v. 34 (excl. syn.} ; Roem. fr Sch. Syst. ii. 303. Pan. 

 debile, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 59; Bertol. Fl. Ital. ii. 778; Trim. Panic. Gen. 117. 

 Pigitaria debilis, Willd. Etmm. Hort. Berol. i. 91; Parlat. Fl. Ital. \. 127. Plains 

 and low hills, from Bengal to Burma, Malacca, and the Andaman and Nioohar Islds. 

 Ceylon (C.P. n. 856,857). Wall. Cat. 8683 (spikes longer, more slender). A very 

 common dwarf form in low ground or poor soil, passing into var. commutatum, and 

 the following. The specimens with gl. I nearly as long as III are typical Pan. debile 

 of the Mediteranean region, but there is a gradual shortening of that gl. to a mere 

 fimbriate scale. A minute accessory gl. at base of gl. TI is present or absent. The 

 Nicobar specimens have the bearded upper spikelet of var. ciliare. 



Var. 9, Rottleri, characters of var. debile, but rachis of spike stouter broader 

 green, the wings two or three times broader than the midrib, glumes broader as in 

 cnmmutatum, of which it is a dwarf form. It resembles Host's and Reichenbach's 

 figures of ciliare. Pan. Rottleri ? and P. ciliare, Wight Herb. n. 3032 (not Cat. 

 1610), and 3033. Common in the plains of India. 



7. P. heteranthum, Hook. f. ; stem stout, spikes many 6-12 in., 

 rachis very stout rigid trigonous, spikelets -*- in. very distant, upper long- 

 pedicelled lanceolate, gls. rigid finely acuminate, I and II longer than 

 ITT, of lower spikelet glabrous of upper villous. Panicum barbatum, 

 Eunfh Reins. Gram. i. 33 ; Enum. PI. i. 84 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 43. Benth. 

 Fl. Honglc. 410. Pan. elytroblepharum, Steud. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 54. Pan. 

 eminens, Steud. I.e. 43. Pan. heteranthum, Nees et Meyen in Nov. Act. 

 Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. (1843), 174; Steud. I.e. 43. Digitaria barbata, 

 Willd. Enum. Sort. Berol. 91. D. elytroblephara, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ni. 

 439. 



MALAY PENINSULA; Pahang, Ridley. DISTRIB. Java, China. 



A very remarkable species, of which I have seen only one Malayan specimen. 

 The spikes appear to be irregularly produced, being leafy where their bases meet ; 

 rachis strict or flexuous, margined with green. Lower spikelet of each pair with very 

 strongly nerved, acuminate, glabrous gls., and no small basal gl., upper with a 

 rigid pedicel and minute, orbicular, naked, basal gl., its other gls. densely villous ; 

 gls. of the upper spikelet at length spreading, hairs very long, with hooked tips. 

 Perhaps only an extreme form of P. saguinale, var. ciliare. I have seen no 

 authentic specimen of P. elytroblepharum, but Miquel's description of it accords 

 with the Malayan plant, and he cites P. eminens as a synonym. 



8. P. pennatum, Hook. /. ; spikes 8-10 radiating elongate filiform 

 ciliate, spikelets |-| in. solitary or binate narrowly lanceolate subsilky, 

 gl. I as long as III 3-5-nerved, II with or without a minute basal one 

 nerves, 5 equidistant, III narrowly elliptic-lanceolate acuminate. Pani- 

 cum pennatum, Hochat. in Flora, xxxviii." (1854), 197. 



SIND ; at Kurrachee, Stocks. BELUCHISTAN, Frere. DISTEIB. Arab., Abyssin. 

 Stem 1-2 ft., branching from the suberect or prostrate base, slender. Leaves 

 1-6 by A in., glabrous, or sheaths and sometimes margins-and both surfaces hairy, 

 ciliate with long hairs towards the base ; ligule rather long, membranous. Spike, 

 3-6 in. ; rachis almost capillary, trigonous, very rarely branched, cilia very long. 

 Spikelets erect, pedicel of the upper almost as Tong as the gls. 



