32 CLXXIII. GRAMINE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



Field Sf Gard. Crops 3, t. 24, Fodd. Qra*<. N. Ind. 8 ; Franch. 8f Sav. En. PI Jap. 

 ii. 161. P.Crus-palli, Wall. Cat. n. 8687, C. G. P. Crus-galli, var. frumentaceuni 

 Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104. P. grossum, Salisb. Prodr. 18. P. s>g<>tale, Herb. Roxb. 

 Oplismeuvis frumentaceus, Kunth Revis. Gram. \. 45, ,Enum. PL i. 146; Dalz. 8f 

 Gibs. Bpmb. Fl. Suppl. 98. Echinochloa fmmentacea, Link Enum. Eort. Serol. i. 

 204; Aitc-his. Cat. Pan jab PI. 161; 'Miq. Fl.,Ind. Bat. iii. 465. Cultivated in the 

 hotter parts of Asia and Africa'. Roxburgh (Fl. Ind. I.e.) says of P. hitpidulum, 

 which is undoubtedly referable to P. Grus-galli, " it comes very near my P. frumen- 

 taceum, and may probably be the same in its wild stae." 



6. P. colonum, Linn. Syst. Ed. x. 870; stem rather slender decum- 

 bc or c-iiortly creeping below, leaves narrow scaberulous, raceme contracted, 

 spikes suberect 1-1^ in. usually distant, rachis pilose, sp kelets iV- in- 

 acute or subcuspidate glabrous or hispidulous, gl. 1 = \ 111 or shorter acate 

 3-5-nerved, II and III subeqnal acute, III paleate, IV ovoid or oblong obtuse 

 or acute and palea coriaceous white. Jacq. Eclog. Gram. t. 32; Ehret. 

 Ic. Sel. t. 3, f. "3; Bcauv. Agrost. I.'*, f. '.> ; Trm. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 160; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 46; Wall. Cat. n. Sn?. r > : T-ri<. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104; 

 But hie Grass. N. W. Ind. 3, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 4, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 

 4; Benih. Fl. Hovgk. 411, Fl. Austral, vii. 478 ; tioiss. FL Orient, v. 435 ; 

 Franck. fy Sav. En. PI. Jap. ii. 100; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 545. P. 

 arabicum,./Vees ex Steud. JSom.Ed. II, ii. 251, Syn. Gram. 63. P. brizoioles, 

 Linn. Mant. \. 184. P. caesium, Neex in Hook. Sf Am. Sot. Seech. Voy. 

 235 ;, Steud. I. c. 47. P. confertum, Herb. Rottl. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8687 B. 

 P. Crus-galli, Wall. Gat. n. 8687 I ; var. colonum, Coss. Expl. Alger. 28 ; var. 

 minor, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 359. P. cuspiclatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 298; 

 Dvthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 3; Steud. I.e.-, Fig. 8f de Not. in. Mem. Acad. 

 Tor. (1854) 340, t. xiii. f. ]-10-. P. Daltoni, Parlat. ex "Webb in Hook. 

 Niger Fl. 185; Steud. I. c. P. flaccidum, Wall. Cat. n. 8692 H (in part}. 

 P. orossarium, 'Griff. Notul iii. 36, Ic. PL Asiat. t. 139, f. 113. P. 

 hasmatodes, Presl FL Sic. i. 43 ; Steud. I. c. P. numidianum. Presl 

 Gyp. $ Gram. Sic. 19. P. Petiveri, Xotsch. ex Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. 

 Ind. 545. P. pictum, i: , n. in Natiirf xxiii. (1788) 204; Wight Cat. 

 n. 1648; Nees in Mart. FL Bras. ii. 120? P. Pseudo-colomim, Roth 

 Nov. Sp. 147 ; Steud. 1. c. 46. P. semiverticillatum, Herb. Rottl. (nnn 

 Rottl. in Ainsl. Mat. Med.}. P. tetrastichum, Forsk. FL JEg. 

 Arab. 19. P. zonale, Presl Prodr. Fl. Sic. i. 82. Oplismenus colonus, 

 H.B $ K. Nov. Gen. $ Sp. i. 108 ; Eunih Emim. PL i. 142 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 omb. FL 291; Aitchis. Cat. Punjab PL. 161. O.? cuspidatus, Kunth 

 Revjs. G-ram. i. 45, Enum. i. 147. 0. Pseudo-colon us, Kunth L I. c. 44, 142. 

 Dii>;itaria? cuspidata, Schult. Mant. ii. 265. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8694, 

 8726. Sloane Hist. Jam. i. t. 64, f. 8. 



Throughout INDIA and Ceylon, ascending the Himalaya to 6000 ft. DISTEIB. 

 all warm countries. 



' In its typical form P. colonum differs from Crus-galli by the characters given 

 above, but there is a gradual transition of one into the other ; and the cultivated 

 var. frumentaceum has been assigned to both, having the unawned spikelets of the 

 former, and the broad leaves robust habit aud long crowded spikes with crowded 

 spikelets of the latter. I find it very difficult in many cases to decide whether to 

 refer certain specimens to the one or to the other, and am not at all confident that 

 the synonymy of the two is in all cases right. Both Cosson and Thwaites regard 

 colonum as a form of Crus-galli. 



7. P. notafoilCj Hook. f. ; spikes much longer than the internodef, 

 rachis scabrid, spikelets in. 2-3-seriate silkily hairy, gl. II subaristately 



