Fanicwn.'] OLXXIII. GRAMINEJ:, (J. D. Hooker.) 39 



18. P. latifolium, Linn. S.p. PL 58; stem prostrate and rooting 

 below, leaves lanceolate acuminate base rounded or cordate, panicle lax, 

 branches distant stout, rachis scaberulous, spikelets large y~l i n - very 

 distant secund solitary or in pairs, glumes coriaceous 5-nerved, tips 

 thickened, I = f II or longer, II and III subequal, III broadest triandrous, 

 palea narrow, IV ovoid acuminate quite smooth. Willd, Sp. PI. i. 350 ; 

 Kunth Enum. PI. i. 117; H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. i. 100. P. Balbi- 

 sianum, Schult. Mant. ii. 254 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 76. P. grandiflorum, 

 Trin. ex Nees Agrost. Bras. 154. P. oryzoides, Sw. Prodr. 23, F.L Ind. Occ. 

 i. 161; Kunth I.e. 129; Nees Agrost. Bras. 154; Steud. I c. 80; Arduin. 

 Animadv. ii. t. 5 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 547. P. Pseudo-oryzoides, 

 Steud. I. c. 75- P. Ridleyi, Hack, in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II. Bot. iii. 401 

 (name). P. zizanioides, If. B. K. I. c. ; Steud. I. c. 75. Panicum, Griff. 

 Notul. iii. 31, n. 17. Wall. Cat. n. 8706. Gram. Virgin. &c. Moris. Hist. 

 PL iii. 190, t. 8, f. 4. Shane Hist. Jam. i. 114, t. 71, f. 3. 



BENGAL, SILHET, CACHAR, BUEMA, and the MALAY PENINS. DISTEIB. Eastern 

 trop. Asia and America. 



Stem 6-24 in., rather stout, extensively creeping, glabrous, or nodes tomentose. 

 Leaves 1-6 by |-f in., subdistichous, flat, glabrous ; sheaths smooth ; ligtt-le short, 

 ciliate. Panicle 1 1^-6 ia., erect, contracted ; ; branches simple or sparingly divided, 

 having short 3-fld. branchlets at the base ; rachis stiff, angular. Spikelets turgid, 

 very obscurely jointed on the short stiff pedicels, pale green; gls. all broadly ovate, 

 their thickeue'd.'tips laterally compressed, lateral nerves on each side close together ; 

 III empty or imperfectly triandrous. The compressed thickened tips of the glumes 

 are very characteristic. 



Var. majus ; stem stout 4-6 ft., internodes 4-6 in. rigid, nodes tomentose, leaves 

 - 4 - in. broad, ihargius thickened, base narrowed, panicle -nearly 12 in. long. Malay 

 Peninsula, at Goping, King's Collector. 



Sect. IV. HYMENACHNE. (See p. 27.) 



10. P. myurus, H. B. & 1C Nov. G-en. & Sp. i. 98 (excl. Syn. Lamk.) ; 

 stem tall stout spongy 'below, leaves long flat base cordate; panicle narrow 

 very compound often interrupted, branches closely appressed, spikelets 

 ^-\ in. erect narrowly lanceolate, gl. I = 5 III, 11 3-nerved, 111 much 

 longer than II 3-5-nerved, IV small thin lanceolate. K>.mth Revis. Grram. \. 

 33, Enum. PI. i. 86, Svppl. 65 ; Thw. Enum. PL Zvyl. 361 ; Trim. Gat. 

 Ceyl. P^.'104; Duthie Fodti. Grass. 'N. Ind. 10 (excl. Syn.} ; Benih. Fl. 

 Austral, vii. 480 \excl. Syn. interruptwm) Excl. in all Syn. Lamk. Rudye, 

 Richard, Trin. P. acutiylumum, Steud. Syn: Gram. 66. P. auritum, Has*k. 

 PI. Rar. Jav. 22 (won Presl.}. P. cynosaroides, Herb. Eottl. P. Hasskarlii, 

 Kteud. in Zoll. Mi/al. Vcrz. 5-t, fyn. Gram. 70; Miq. FL Ind. Hat. iii. 450. 

 P. myururri, Meyer Fl. Esseq_. 50 (cxvl. tiyn. Lamk Sf Rudc/e). .P. manga - 

 loricum, Mew/. I.e. 78. l\ sierratuhim, Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. n. 8699. 

 P. serrulatum, Roxb. Fl.Ind. i/307 ; KuntliEnum. PI. i. 126. Hymenachne 

 niyuios, Beauv. Agrost. 49, t. 10, t'. 8 (excl. Syn. Lam.} ; Nees- Agrost. Bras. 

 275; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.^Ind. 553 (excl. Syn.} Steud. I.e. Agrpstis alope- 

 curoides, Valil. mss., & A. monostachys, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. i. 256, ex 

 Kunth I. c. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8699. 



Marshes in Upper and Lower BENGAL, ASSAM, SiLitET, the DECCAN, MALAYAN 

 PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Trop. As. Austral, and Amer. 



Stem erect, 2-6 ft., leafy, rooting at the nodes of the prostrate base, which is 

 often as thick as a swan's quill. Leaves 12-18 by f-1 in., tapering from a broad 

 cordate base to a line point, margin serrulate; sheath smooth, glabrous ; ligule very 



