30 CLXXIII. GRAMINE.B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



has never till now been recognized, nor could it have been from Barman's description 

 only. Under these circumstances, and taking into consideration the facts, that Retz 

 described two different plants under the name of fluitans, and that punctatum has 

 been applied to no other species, I have adopted the latter. 



4. P. paspaloides, Pers. Syn. i. 81 (paspalodes) ; spikes erect 

 longer than the internodes, spikelets -^"iV i n - erecto-patent subglobose 

 glabrous, gl. I very short suborbicular retuse, II nearly = IV strongly 

 5-nerved tip rounded, III broadly ovate acute 5-nerved paleate neuter, IV 

 oblong subacute nearly smooth. Kunth Enum. PL i. 77 ; Trin. Pan. Gen. 

 153. Wall. Gat. 8691 (in part) ; Steud.. Syn. Gram. 60 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 

 436. P. affine, Nees Agrost. Bras. 113. P. appresaum, Doell in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. II 184. P. beckmanniseforme, Mikan ex Trin. in Spreng. Neue 

 Entdecls. ii. 83 ; Spreng. Syst. i. 309. P brizseforme, Presl Rel. Hsenk. 

 302 ; Steud. 1. c. 60. P. brizoides, Lamk. III. i. 170 (not Trin. or Jacq). P. 

 carnosurn, Sallzm. ex Steud. I. n. P. fluitans, Retz. Obs. v. 18 ; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 455. P. numidianum, Sieb. ex Schult. Mant. ii. 267 

 (not Lamk.}. P. truncatum, Trin. Diss. ii. 130, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 168 

 (not t. 172). Paspalum adpressum, Pers. Syn. i. 85; Rich, ex Lamk. I.e. 

 176. Digitaria affinis, Roem. and Sch. Syst. ii. 470. 



KTJMAON, Strachey 8f Winterbottom, alt. 5000ft. UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN; 

 Delhi, Clarke. BUNDELKTTND, Duthie. SCIND, the CONCAN, MALABAE and 

 TRANQUEBAR, Heyne, Ac. CEYLON, Walker, &c. DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Arabia, 

 Afric. and Amer. trop. 



Perennial, stem glabrous ; prostrate, usually floating below and rooting at the 

 nodes. Leaves spreading, linear, acuminate acute or obtuse, lower sheaths dilated. 

 Spikes ^-1 in., appressed to the narrow, compressed, setulose rachis. Spikelets 

 subsessile, turgid. Glumes membranous. Habit of P. punctatum, which it closely 

 resembles, but differs in the rachis of the spikes not produced at the tip with a few 

 imperfect terminal spikelets, in the size of gl. II, in paleate III, and smooth IV. 

 P. brizoides, Lamk., is the earliest name, but it has been so promiscuously applied 

 that it is better abandoned. 



Sect. II. ECHINOCHLOA. (See p. 27.) 



5. P. Crus-g-alli, Linn. Sp. PL 56 ; stem erect, leaves linear flat 

 glabrous or scabernlous, raceme contracted or pyramidal, spikes many 

 2-4 in. often secund simple or subcompound, rachis setulose, spikelets 

 Y^-I in. (excl. awn) subglobose hispid or scabrid rarely glabrous, gl. I = 

 ^-i III acute 3-5-nerved, 11=111 mucronate or shortly awned, III 

 paleate male or neuter awned, awn short or long rigid scabrid, IV ovoid 

 obtuse or cuspidate and palea coriaceous shining white. Fl. Dan. t. 852, 

 &t. 1564; Host Gram. Austr. ii. 15, t. 19; Encycl. Bot. t. 276; Knapp 

 Gram. Britt. t. xi. ; Reichl. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 29; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. 

 t. 161, 162; Wall. Cat. n. 8687 (excl. J.); Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 359 

 (excl. Syn. colonum)-, Trim. Cat. Geyl. PI. 104; Dulhie Grass. N. W. Ind. 3, 

 Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 5, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 4 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 464 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 411, Fl. Ausfral. vii. 479 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 435 ; 

 Franch. % Sav. En. PL. Jap. ii. 160; Griseb. FL Brit. W. Ind. 546. P. 

 Burmanni, Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. iii. 57, ex Link. Hort. Berol. i. 204. P. 

 corvipes, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. i. 141. P. digitatum, G-ilib. Esrercit. 517. 

 P. dubium, Sieb. ex Steud. Norn. Ed. II, ii. 256, Syn. Gram. 46. P. echina- 

 tum, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1032 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 162 ; Jacq. 



Gram. ii. 28, t. 20. P. hirtellum, Walt. Fl. Carol. 72. P. hirti- 



