38 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJE. (J. D. Hooter.) \JPaniGum. 



Spilcelets more or less remote. 



15. P. semiverticillatum, Rottler in Ainslie, Mat. Med. Hindos t. 

 Ed. I. 219 (name only] ; stem stout erect branched, lea ~es broad base woolly , 

 panicle large pubescent, spikes distant long alternate or whorled lax-ttd., 

 ruchis slender, spikelets - in. ovoid obtuse glabrous, gl. I much shorter 

 than III very broad obtuse 5-nerved, II obtuse 7-nerved, III 5-nerved,palea 

 narrow hyaline, IV ovate-oblong obtuse minutely granulate. Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 62. P. semiverticillatum, Wight Cat. n. 3050 ?, 3051. P. Petive'rii, 



%>hw. Enum. PI. ZeyL 359. 



SOUTH DECCAN, Coimbatore, Rottler, Wight; Anamallay Hills, Seddome. 

 CEYLON, at Damboul, Gardner (C.P. 895). 



Stem tall, erect, or base shortly decumbent ; nodes and often internodes below 

 them tomentose. Leaves 5-8 by - in., linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, flat, 

 glabrous except at the narrow base ; sheath tomentose above ; ligule a tuft of 

 wool. Panicle 4-8 in., subpyramidal ; Spikes l-2 in. ; racftis triquetrous, glabrous 

 or pubescent. Spikelets pale, often solitary, upper shortly pedicelled. Possibly a 

 cult, form of P. ramosum. Described by Aiuslie as a grain cultiv^ad by the poor 

 nt Coimbatore and in other grain countries. I assume it to be Rotiler's plant, 

 relying on Wight, who had resided at Coimbatore. P. semiverticillatuiu, Herb. 

 Rottler t from Jaffna in Ceylon is P. colonum. 



16. P. remotum, Retz. Ols. iv. 17 ; very slender, leaves long narrow 

 and sheaths quite glabrous, gpikes few distant slender spreading, spikelets 

 iV in. distant subsolitary ellipsoid obtuse glabrous, gl. 1 = ^-\ III obtuse 

 or snbacute 3-nerved, II obtuse 5-7-nerved. Ill 5-nerved, palea narrow, 

 IV elliptic obtuse minutely rugulose. Kmith Eni^m. PL i. 125; Steud. 

 Syn. G-ram. 68. P. grossarium, Koen. var. Herb. Rottler. P. Petiverr, 

 Tri-i. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 176, f. C. P. relaxatum, Nees ex Steud. Nom Ed. 

 II. it. 262; Wight Cat. n. 1623 a, and /3 depauperatum. 



ORISSA, Herb. Calcutt. SOUTH DECCAN, Rottler; Courtallam, Wight; Ana- 

 mallay Hills, Beddome. 



Stem 1-2 ft., much branched, decumbent, flaccid. Leaves 2-4: by -3- in., finely 

 acuminate, membranous, base quite glabrous ; ligule very short, lacerate. Spikes 

 6-8, 2-4 in. long ; rachis very slender, almost capillary, triquetrous, quite glabrous. 

 Spikelets solitary or in distant pairs, sessile, or the upper loug-pedicelled ; glumes 

 thin, pale with green nerves. I find no difference beUyeen Nees' two vars. of 

 relaxatum. 



17. P. Kurzii, Hook.f. slender, leaves short lanceolate base cordate, 

 margins of sheaths ciliate, spikes few very slender naked or with few hairs, 

 Bpikelets Vfj in. ovoid acute glabrous, gl. 1= tr~! H'- 3-5-nerved, 1 !! ovate 

 acuminate 7-nerved, III 5-nerved, palea broad, IV elliptic- oblong minutely 

 mgulose, tip rounded apiculate. Panicum, Wall. @at. n. 8745. 



LOWER BENGAL, Wallich, Griffith; Seebpore, Ky,rz ; Vicrampore and Dacca, 

 Jlarke. BEHAK ; top of Parusuath, J. D. H. 



Annuiil, decumbent and rooting below, flaccid. ieawes2-3by g | in., acuminate, 

 margins crisped towards the usually ciliate base ; sheath with villous margins ; 

 ligule bearded. Panicle 2-6 in. long; spikes few, very distant, 2-3 in. long, with 

 rarely a short branch bearing 2-3 spikelets towards the base of the lower. Spikelets 

 pale, subsessile or pedicelled. This Lower Bengal plant found at Seebpore close to 

 the Calcutta Bot. Garden, should be one of Koxburgh's species, but I cannot identity 

 it. It is very closely allied to P. remotum and altogether like that plant in habit, 

 differing chiefly in the short leaves and the ciliate margins of the leaf-sheaths and in 

 habitat. A doubtful specimen from Baidyanath (Sautal Pergunnahs) collected by 

 Clarke, has the narrow leaves of remotum. 



