42 CLXXIII. GBAMINEUE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



Var. elatum ; glabrous, stem 3-4 ft. stout erect, leaves 6-10 in. by ^ in., spike 

 3-6 in. rather stout, spikelets iu. erect oblong-ovate acute violet blue rarely 

 greenish. Khasia hills, in wet places alt. 5-6000 ft. The nearest form to P. 

 interruptum. 



Var. piloaum ; like var. elatum, but not so taU, more flaccid, leaves liirsute 

 with spreading hairs. Khasia hills, alt. 4-5000 ft. 



Var. villosum ; softly silkily villous, stem 1-2 ft., leaves quite erect, spike 2-6 in., 

 spikelets -|- in. green or purplish ovate-oblong glabrous. Panicum, No. 39, Herb. 

 2nd. Or. Hook. f. % T. Khasia hills, alt. 5-6000 ft. 



Var. gracile ; stem 1-2 ft. very slender simple or branched, leaves 4-6 by i 

 in. flaccid, spikes 2-4 in. pale, spikelets % in. ovoid subacute glabrous spreading. 

 Nepal, Kumaon, Sikkim, &c. 



Var. angustum ; whole plant very slender spike of very minute loosely packed 

 spikelets T ^ in. loug. This, the P. angustum Trin., is a starved form. 



Var. tu.rgid.uin ; stem 6-12 in., spike short cylindric or oblong very pale often 

 proliferous, spikelets -i in. oblong turg-id setulose. Pauicuin, Wall. Cat. n. 8697, 

 8698. In wet places. Perhaps a diseased form. 



24. P. myosuroides, Br. Prpdr. 189 ; slender, leaves narrow, spike- 

 lets innumerable -jWa in. densely crowded in an elongate cylindric curved 

 caudiform panicle broadly obovoid or subglobose obtuse, gl. I about III 

 3-nerved, II very convex and III 5-7-nerved, III oblong obtuse palea 

 minute, IV minute ovate-oblong. Kunth Nnum. Pi. i. 77; Steud. Syn. 

 G-ram. 56 ; ~Benth. Fl. Austral.'vii. 480 (excl. syn. angustum) ; Duthie Fodd. 

 Grass. N. ' Ind. 11. P. arcuatum, Wight Cat. n. 1639 (non Br.). P. 

 angustum, Wight I.e. 1642 (non Trin.); Wight Cat. n. 164. P. curva- 

 tum, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 286 (non Linn.) ; Kunth I. c. 87 (excl. syn.). P. 

 indicum, Herb. Wight n. 3042 ; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 361 (in part). P. 

 interruptum, var. contigua. Steud. in PL Ind. Or. Hohen. n. 1606 (non 

 Willd.). P. multiflorum, Roxb. Ic. Pict. ined. 't. 782. P. nervosum, Herb. 

 Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8696 A. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8696 A. C. F. 

 (in part) G. Sporobolus, Wall. Cat. n. 3766 ex Wight. Cat. n. 1642. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India from NEPAL eastward to ASSAM and 

 BURMA, and southward to the MALAY PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTEIB. China, 

 Austral. Afric. trop. 



S'em erect or shortly creeping. Leaves rarely \ in. broad. Spiciform or rather 

 Ciiudiform panicle sometimes 8 inches long, tapering from base to tip, with rarely a 

 short branch abruptly breaking out from near the base. S.pikeleis longer than their 

 pedicels, green or purplish. This is unquestionably P. myosuroides, Br., and Rox- 

 burgh'^ P. curvatum, but I hesitate to cite all the authors who have taken up these 

 names, in some cases probably from forms of P. indicum. In its ordinary state it is 

 a very distinct grass, from its elegant tail-like inflorescence and minute obtuse spike- 

 lets, but I find it impossible to separate specimens with short spikes from states of 

 P. indicum. P. angustum, Trin., is such a state, and is referred to myosuroides by 

 Bentham, but its larger spikelets are rather those of true 'indicum. " 



25. P. curvatum, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. 730 ; stem very slender, and 

 narrow leaves flaccid, spikelets in a lax panicle withV capillary tiexuous 

 branches, spikelets gibbously ovoiu-oblong decurved, nerves very strong, 

 gl. I minute, II cymbiform or almost galeate, III shorter than II ovate, 

 palea linear-oblone, IV minute. Wight Cat. n. 1636 ; Thw. Enum. PL 

 ZSyl. 360; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 105 ; Nees Agrost. Bra*. 207, Fl. Afr. Au*1r. 

 50. P. costulatnm, Bojer, mss. P. coryophorum, Kiinth Renis. Gram. 93, 

 t. 107; Enum. PI. 88; Suppl. 66. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8712. 



