18 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ2. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Paspalum. 



spreading, rachis filiform, spikelets -^g r\ in elliptic-oblong silky with slender 

 (not clavellate) crisped hairs, pedicels glabrous or nearly so, gl. I and 

 II subequal or I shorter or obsolete, II 5-nerved, III ovate acuminate. 

 Wall. Cat. n. 87cl, C. ; Wight Cat. n. 1603 ; Baker Fl. Maurit. 431. P. 

 bifarium, Edcjeiv. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxi. (1853) 157 nomen. (ex Thw. 

 Enum. PI. Zeyl. 358). P. brevifolinm, Fluegge Gram. Monog. 150 (excl. 

 Syn.) ; Kunth Enum. PL i 48 ; Wight Cat. n. 1603, 1604 ; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 41 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 408, Fl Austral, vii. 461 ; Franch. & Sav. 

 En. PI. Jap. ii. 159. P. chinense, Nees in Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 

 231 ; Steud. I.e. P. filicnlme, Nees ex Thw. I.e.; Wicjlit Cat. n. 1604; 

 Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104; Franch. $ Sav. I. c. ; puthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 1. 

 P. granulare, Trin. in Spreng. N. Entdeck ii. 47 ; Kunth 1. c. 50. P. 

 minutiflorum, Steud. I. c. 17 ; Benth. I. c. P. nematodes, Si'huH. Mant. ii. 

 71; Kunth 1. c. 65. Panicum argyrotrichum, Anderss. in Peters Reise 

 Mossamb. Bot. 548. Pan. lineare, /3 Pseudo Duroa, Nees in Herb. 

 Wight. Pan. longiflorum, Gmel. Syst. 158; Wall. Cat. n. 8751 A. Pan. 

 parvulum, Trin. Pan. Gen. 117, in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. iii. II 

 (1835) 305. Pan. propinquum, Br. Prodr. 193. Pan. Psudo-Duroa. Nees 

 Fl. Afr. Austr. 21; Wight Cat n. 1608. Pan. tenuiflorum, Br. I. c. ; 

 Kunth I. c. 85; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 7, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 13. 

 Digit iria linearis, Schult. Mant. ii. 264 (ex Miguel). D. longiflora, Pers. 

 Syn. i. 85. D. Pseudo-Duroa, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 439. D. Roxbnrghii, 

 Spreng. Syst. i. 270. D. tenuiflora, Beauv. Agrost. 51. Milium filiforme, 

 Roxb. FL 'Ind. i. 314; Wight Cat. n 1604, a.b.c. M. radiatum, Herb. RottL 

 M. setaceum, Herb. Koen. in Mus. Brit. M. triracemosum, Roxb. Ic. Ined. 

 n. 315. Agrostis len^a, Ait. Hort. Kew, i. 96. A. triracemosa, Herb. 

 Roxb. Paspalum, Wall. Cat. n. 8751, 8752 B.D.E. 



Throughout INDIA, from Kashmir eastwards and southwards to Ceylon (C.P. 

 and Malacca ; ascending the Himalaya to 6000 ft. DISTKIB. Trop. and subtrop. 

 regions of the Old World. 



Annual or perennial ? Stems tufted, 6-18 in. , simple or branched below and root- 

 ing with ascending branches,or prostrate. Leaves very various, 1-1^ in. long lanceol -te 

 and divaricate, or 6-8 in. long, linear erect or spreading; sheath smooth or hairy; 

 ligule short, truncate, membranous. Spiltes 14 in.,suhdi^itate or alternate, usually 

 silvery-white. Spikelets geminate, a subsessile and pedicelled, pale green or purplish ; 

 gl. Ill pale, or dark brown. The extreme forms of this species are very dissirnihir, 

 the most marked are P. longiflorum, proper (brevifolium, Fluegge), with often 

 prostrate stems spreading from the root or creeping and rooting from 6-12 in. with 

 short lanceolate leaves, and 2-3 divaricate spikes, and P. minutiflorum, Steud., 

 with slender erect stems, narrow linear leaves and many long erect spikes, exactly as 

 P. Royleanum. The hairs on the spikelets seen under the microscope are very 

 slender and as it were crisped or wrinkled, quite unlike those of P. ternatum and 

 Royleanum. Thwaite's CP. n. 2573 is a puzz'ing plant, tall, with much longer 

 ^pikelets, approaching those of P. ambiguum. Though in this species and its allies 

 there is no distinct gl. at the base of II, a microscopical rudiment of one may often 

 (always?) be detected. 



12. P. Royleanum, Nees ex Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 358 ; erect or 

 shortly decumbent below, leaves usually erect, spikes 2-10 erect, rachis 

 filiform, spikelets ^V^iV i n - oblong, gl. I and II densely crisply white- 

 tomentose with clavellate hairs, pedicel setulose, gl. I = f III or shorter or 

 obsolete, II broadly oblong subacute 5-nerved, III oblong subacute quite 

 smooth. Trim. Gat. PL Ceyl 158 ; Herb. Strach. $ Winterb. Pasp. n. 2 ; 

 Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 1. P. filiculme, Herb. Strach. & Winterb. n. 3 



