Panicum."] GLXXIII. QRAMINE^I. (J. D. Hooker.) 29 



partim ) ; Bcnth. Fl. Austral, vii. 474. P. brizoides, Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 2, 

 t. 2 ; Trin. Diss. ii. 128, Sp. G-ram. Ic, t. 158, 159 ; Kuntli Enutii. PL i. 78; 

 Rovb. Fl. Ind. i. 293 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 2^0 ; Thw. Enuni. PL Zeyl. 

 359; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 159 ; Luthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 2; Miq. FL Ind. 

 Bat. iii. 445 ; Aitcliis. Gat. Punjab PL 159; Nees Agrost. Bras ]15 ; Baker 

 FL Maurit. 433. P. clistans, Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 172. P. brizoides, var. 

 distans, Trin. Ic. t. 159 B. P. flaccidum, Koen. mss. in Herb. Hits. Brit. 

 P. floridum, Royle ILL Bot. Rimal. 420. P. granulare, Lam. II L i. 170, 

 Enc/jrl. iv. 740; Trin. Diss. ii. 129. P. Sama, Ham. ex Wall. Oat. 

 8692 F. ^^ 



Plains of India ; in wjil'Cfy places from the Panjab to Assam and Burma, ascending 

 to 5000 it. in Nepal anolCumaon, and southward to CEYLON. DISTRIB. Trop. Asia 

 and Africa. 



Stem 1-4 ft.; compressed, legfy, branched from the decumbent base. Leaves 

 bifarioup, 3-5 by - in., linear-lanceolate acuminate, or ligulate with a rounded 

 tip ; sheaths compressed, lower tumid, mouth hairy ; ligule 0. Spikes few or many, 

 distnnt, .^1 in. Spikelets 2-20, very pale, sessile^ Glumes membranous, white with 

 green nerves ; III neuter or male ; IV sometimes almost orbicular, white or brownish, 

 very -minutely rough. The var. distans of Trinius is a depauperate state, and occurs 

 on the i-ame plant as the normal. A still more depauperate form, densely tufted, 

 with stems and leaves 2-3 in. long and very few spikelets, is Wall. Cat. 8692 D from 

 Herb. Wight, also found in Bengal. Mr. Reiidle informs me that the name flavidum 

 may be a mistake for flaccidum, under which Koenig sent it to Retzius from Herb. 

 Mus. Brit, where it is named flaccidum. 



3. P. punctatum, Burm. FL Ind. 26 ; spikes longer than the inter- 

 nodes tip usually excurrent setiform, spikelets ^VrV i n - plano-convex erecto- 

 patent glabrous, gl. J very short truncate, II = about tialf IV suborbicular 

 3-nerved tip rounded or truncate, 111 ovate acute 3-5-nerved neuter, IY 

 ovate'cuspidately acuminate granulate. P. fluitans', Retz. Obs. iii. 8 (not 

 v: 18) ; Roxb. FL Ind. i. 293 ; Griff. Rotul. iii. 25, L<'. PL As'uti. Io9, f. 231 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl 290; Thw. Emim. PL ZeyL 339; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. 

 PL 104 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PL 159 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 4, India. 

 Fodd. Grass, t. 44, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 7 ; Baker FL Maurit. 433 ; .#01'*,?. 

 FL Orient, v. 437; Steud. Syn. Gram. 59; Nees Agrost. Bras. 115. P. 

 brizoides, Retz. 1. c. ; Rottl. in Naturf. c L Ges. Neue Schrift. iv. (1803), 

 11; Wall. Cat. n. 8690; WigU Cat. n. 1614. P. fluitans, Herb. Madr. 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8692 B.. P. granulare, Bojer Hort. Maurit. \'M. P. mucro- 

 natum, Roth Nov.'Sp. 45; Steud. I.e. ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 116. P. pa.spa- 

 loides, Wall. I. c. n. 8691 A (partim), B. 



Marshes throughout INDIA, from the Paujab to Assam, and southwards to Malacca 

 and CEYLON. DIST.RIB. Malaya, Mauritius, trop. and N. Africa. 



Perennial, quite glabrous. Stem 2-4 ft., base floating, rooting at the nodes ; 

 lower internodes very stout, spongy. Leaves 4-8 in., linear, acute or acuminate; 

 lower sheaths dilated; ligule a ring of hairs. Spilus many, -1 in., distant, sessile, 

 secund, appressed to the glabrous rachis, very pale ; rachis about r \ in. broad, margin 

 quite smooth, tip free acicular as long as the upper spikelet. Spikelets &-& in. 

 long, imbricate, sessile, ovate-oblong. Glumes membranous, IV as long as III. 

 Mr. Kendle informs me that he has examined in the British Museum the specimen 

 (in Herb. Sloane) on the figure of which Burman founded P. punctatiim, and that 

 it is the same as J 7 . fiuitans, Betz. - And further, that the name fluitans is a ms. one 

 of Koenig, and was no floubt sent by him to Betz, who says that he received the 

 plant from Koenig. As to the rival claims of punctatum and fluitans for adoption, 

 the former (published in 1768) has a quarter of century's priority ; but whereas the 

 P. fluilans has had more than a century of recognition in all countries, P. punctatum 



