28 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ5. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



II. Branchlets of panicle often produced beyond the terminal spikelet into 

 a rigid awn-like bristle. 



Sect. VII. PTYCHOPHYLLUM. Spikelets solitary, sessile or pediceUed on 

 the slender branches o a decompound open panicle. Leaves plicate. (See 

 also Setaria Forbesiana.) (Sp. 48, 49.) 



,' 13. S pikelets strongly laterally compressed. 



Sect. VIII. GiBBOSjE. Spikelets very minute, panicled ; gl. IV semi- 

 lunar. Perennial very slender grasses. (Sp. 50-54.) 



Sect. IX. PSETJDECHINOL/ENA. Spikelets rather large, distant, subsessile 

 on a slender simple or sparingly divided rachis, often glandular. (Sp. 55.) 



Sect. I. PASPALOIDE.E. (See p. 27.) 



1. P. Isachne, Moth Nov. Sp. 54; spikes many longer than the 

 internodes, spikelet-5 t l s in. -suberect oblong acute villous, gl. I minute, II 

 and III equal faintly 3-nerved, II = IV, III paleate empty, TV oblong 

 rounded at both ends quite smooth. Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 458 ; Schult. 

 -flfimfc ii. 252 ; Kunth Enunt. PI. i. 97; Steud. Syn. Gram. 57. P. eruct- 

 forme, Sibtk. FL Qrscc. i. t. 59 ; Sibtli. & 8m. Prodr. Fl. Grsec. i. 40 ; 

 Ro*m. & tick. 1. c. 426 ; Kunth I c. 78 ; Thw. Enum PI. Zeyl. 359 ; Trim. Cat. 

 Ceyl. PI. 104*,' Dutliie Grass. N.TT. Ind. 3, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 43, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. 2nd. 6 Baker Fl. Manrit. 434 ; Parlat. Fl. Ital. \ 119 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 437. P. Koem>ii, Herb. Wig/it ex Nees FL Afr. Austr.30. 

 P. caucasicum, Trin. in Mem.- Acqd. Peiersfc Ser. 6 (1835) iii. '237, Sp. 

 Gram. Ic. t. 262, Panic. Gen. 149 : Steud 1. c. P. Cms Galli, Rox'>. ex 

 Wight Cat. n. ,1616 (non Fl. ~Ind.} P. pnbinode, Hochst. ex A. Rick. Tent. 

 FL Abyss, ii. 363 ; Steud. I.e. 57. P. Wightiannm, Am. & Nees. ex Nees 

 FL Afr. Austr. 30. P. "Wigh-tii, Nees I.e. 29;-7>i^. .Pan. Gen. 148; 

 Steud. 1. c. 58. Brachiaria eruciforrnis, Gri.seb. in Ltdeb Fl. Ross. iv. 469. . 

 Echinochloa eruciformis, He/'chl. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 29; C. Koch, in 

 Limixa, xxi. (1848) 437. Panicum, Wall. Gat. n. 8693. 



Plains of INDIA; in watery places, from Kashmir, nlfr. 6000 ft., and the Panjab, 

 to Bengal, and southward to CEYLON. DISTRIB. Westward to Italy and N. 

 Africa. 



Stems 1-2 ft., slender, ascending from a decumbent base, much branched ; nodes 

 often bearded. Leaves 1-2|- in. by -3 in., glaucous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 flat, glabrous or softly hairy, base rounded ; mouth of sheath with long hair?. Spikes 

 8-12, |-1 in. long, erect or suberect; rachis narrower than the suikelets, cilinte. 

 Spikelets subsessile, very pale; gls. membranous, I cordate ; II about | shorter than 

 IV, which is white. 



2. P. flavidum, Retz. Obs. iv. 15; spikes erect shorter than the 

 internodes, spikelets T^-iV in. divaricate gibbously globose glabrous, gl. I 

 = about | III suborbicular 3-nerved, II nearly = IV 7-nerved tipVmncled, 

 III oblcng obtuse 3-5-nerved paleate neuter, IV broadly ovate cuspidate 

 rpticulately pnnctulate. Br. Prodr. 190; BKmthnevi*. Gram. i. 211, t. 17, 

 JEnum. PI. i. 78, Suppl. 60 ; Trin. Panic. Gen. 151 ; Nees Aqrost. 

 Bras.il 116; Griff. Notul. iii. 33, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, fig. 67; Duthie 

 Grass. N. W. Ind. 3, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. vi , Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 7 ; 

 Wight Cat. n. 1613, <fe Herb. n. 3059 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8692 (excl B, & H 



