Paspalum.'] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 19 



(non Nees). P. trachyanthnm, Ne e s in Herb. Wight. Panicum pube- 

 mlum, Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 32; Ennrn. PL i. 81; Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 41. Digitan'a pubernla, Link Enum. Hurt. Berol. i. 223. Milium ovatum, 

 Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8752. Agrostis villoaa, Koen. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Zoysia Codia, Ham. in Wall. 1. c. Paspalum, Wall. I. c. n. 8684, 

 8752, A.C. 



Hilly districts of INDIA, from Kashmir eastwards to Munnipore, and southwards 

 to Ceylon; ascending the Himalaya to 7000 ft. DISTRIB. Africa trop. 



Habit of the tall forms of P. longiflorum, almost always erect with long leaves, 

 except in starved specimens ; we 1 distinguished from that plant (as Dr. Stapf first 

 pointed out to me) by the short clavellate thick walled hairs of the spikelets, and 

 the usuully setulose pedicels, the longer hairs of which are sometimes half as long as 

 the spikelet, as also by the shorter broader gl. Ill, which is (as in longiflorum) pale 

 yellowish or dark brown and shining. 01. I is often reduced to a tuft of hairs j II 

 always = III. This species was referred by Munro to P. ischnocaulon, Trin., a 

 grass erroneously attributed to India, by its author in Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 126, but 

 corrected to America in the corrigenda at the end of that work. Some specimens 

 have been referred by Munro to P. concinnum, Steud. (Syn. Gram. 19), a very 

 doubtful species of unknown origin. In the Ceylon specimen, C.P. 859, the pedicels 

 are hardly setulose. In African specimens, apparently of this species, they are 

 remarkably developed and longer than the spikelets. Specimens from Poona are tall, 

 2 ft. high, very robust, and branched, from the base. Steudel's P. Royleanum is 

 according to his description a very different plant, and judging by his reference of it 

 to Wall. Cat. n. 8700 B. is Pamciim auritum. 



13. P. pedicellare, Trin. ex Steud. Nom.'Ed. II, ii. 272 ; erect, spikes 

 alternate approximate erect or spreading, spikelets -$ in. geminate or 3-5- 

 nate, upper of each pair half as long as their pedicels elliptic acute, gls. 

 mem bran OTIS, I and II subequal 5-nerved, III elliptic-oblong acuminate 

 pale. P. granulare, Trin. in Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii. 47 ; Spreng. Syst. i. 

 244; Kunih Enum. PI. i. 50 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 16. P. pedicellatum, Nees 

 & Am. in Wight Cat. 2310, # Herb. n. 3027 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 1. 

 Milium capillaceum, Koen. ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II, ii. 145. M. punctatum, 

 Koen. in Herb. Mus. Brit. M. sanguinale, Roxb. JFl. Ind. i. 315 (excl. 

 Syn. Burm.). M. setaceum, Koen. in Herb. Banks. ; Jacq. ex Trin. I.e. M. 

 striaturn, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Gat. n. 8747 A.? Paspalum, No. 3, Griff. 

 Notul. iii. 14 (in part), Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 146, f. 1. Panicum, Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8747. 



THROUGHOUT INDIA, in the plains and low hills from the N.W. Provinces to 

 Bengal. NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 5000 ft., Beddome. UPPEE BURMA, Collett. 



Stem 6-18 in., branched from the base. Leaves 2-6 by f-i in., finely acuminate ; 

 ligule short, scarious. Spikes 3-10, 1-4 in., subtermiual on the very slender pedun- 

 cle, spreading ; rachis capillary, trigonous ; pedicels -^g in- ; gls. slightly hairy. 

 Munro identifies Griffiths' Pasp. 3 with this ; it differs in the flattened rachis, red 

 prostrate stem, and pale red spikelets, which I have never seen in pedicellatum. 

 Roxburgh's excellent drawing (as Milium sanguinale) shows pale spikelets. 



14. P. jubatum, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 84<(Gesamm. Abhandl. 

 301) ; erect, rather stout, leaves long, spikes very many lower whorled, 

 spikelets - 2 l o in. in scattered pairs pale or dark purple elliptic acute, gls. 

 finely tomentose, I rather shorter than III ^-nerved, II 5-nerved, III 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate. 



The KHASIA HILLS ; in wet places, alt. 5-6000 ft., /. D. H. # T. T., &c. 

 Stem 2-4 ft., shining, intercedes long. Leaves 6-10 by -^ in., smooth ; sheath 

 very long; ligule short rounded. Spikes 4-7 in., very unequal; rachis slender, 



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