Panicum.] cLxxin. G-RAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 47 



longer than the spikelets* gl. I = | III or less broader thaft long 3-5- 

 nerved tip obtuse or rounded, II ovate acuminate 11-nerved, III as 

 long as II 9-nerved pajeate neutej, IV oblong obtuse apiculate. 

 Nees Agrost. Bras. 199 ; 'Kunth Enum. PL i. 100 ; Steud. 'Syn. Gram. 

 83 ; Thwaites Enum. PI. Zeyl. 360 ; <Trim. Qat t . Ceyl. PL 105 ; Aitchis. Cat. 

 Panjab. PL 161 ; Duthie. Grass. N.W:ind. 6, Field & Gard, Crops, i. t. 23, 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 10 (in note). P. Chintaman, Herb. Jfam. ex Wall. Cat. 

 8712 D. P. glabrum, Herb. Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8712 C (in, part). P. 

 miliare, var. Meneri, Herb. Ma dr. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8712 B. P. miliare, 

 Wall. Cat, n. 8712 A (in part) B (in part) D. P. mucronatum, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 87 17 (in part). P. ramosum, Koen. ex Herb. Banks. P. Royleanum, 

 Nees ex Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6. P. virgatum, Roxb. mss. ex Steud. 

 Norn. Ed. II ii. 265. Isachne, Wall. Cat. 8659 B (inpart). 



Hotter parts of INDIA, ascending to 4000 ft., BURMA, MALACCA and CEYLON. 



Annual. Stem 1-2 ft., rather slender, simple or branched, usually leafy up to 

 the panicle. ^Leaves 3-12 by i-i in., flat, acute or acuminate, -usually glabrous; 

 sheaths glabrous or hirsute', mouth with a few hairs; ligule a narrow row of 

 hairs. Panicle 2-8 ill. j lower branches long ; pedicels- sometimes in. long. 

 Spikelets rather flattened, dorsally green or purplish ; gl. I variable, membranous, 

 white, margins overlapping at the base, nerves 3-5 anastomosing'; II and III 

 herbaceous, palea of 111 as long as the gl. ; IV shining Nees (Agrost. Bras.) 

 describes gl. II as 7- nerved probably by error. Diseased states occur with gl. IV 

 enlarged exserted flattened. Trinius describes the spikelets as elliptic and mucro- 

 nate, and the panicle as contraoted below and lax above, but this latter is a matter 

 of development. Trinius gives as a character of P. psilopodium glumes open, which 

 is a conspicuous one hi P. trypheron, but I do not recognise it in this. He further 

 stiys'that he has seen this species in Herb. Lindley under the names of P. ramosum, 

 Koen. and P. virgatu'm, Roxb. I have in vain tried to verify this in Lindley's Herb., 

 and conclude that for Herb. Lindley Herb. Mus. Brit, is intended. Duthie, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 10 (in note) says that he is unable to distinguish P. psilopodium from 

 P. miliape. Dr. Stapf ; w)io has carefully reviewed a multitude of specimens of 

 P. miliar$ and psilopodium, is, disposed to think them separable, though the former 

 is probably a cult, form of the latter. The true psilopodium he thinks has nearly 

 always glabrous leaves, smaller spikelets and a shorter gl. I. 



Var. coloratum; panicle vi9let or purple. Simla and Garwhal, iip to 6000 ft., 

 Mt. Abu, Duthie; Shan Hills, Burma, Collett. 



34. IP. trypheron, fecliuU. Mant. ii. 244 ; leaves narrow, panicle 

 effuse, branches long stiff filiform divaricate scaberulous, spikelets T l o~a 

 in. often geminate, pedicels capillary, gls. divergent strongly nerved I, II 

 and III broadly ovate, I "= \ HI or longer acuminate 5-nerved, II and III 

 subequal recurved subcuspidate 9-nerved, III paleate neuter, IV broadly 

 oblong obtuse shining often 5-nerved. P. coloratum, /3 hirsutum, Nees in 

 Herb. Lindl. (ew Steud.). P. confine, Hochst. in ScMmp. PI. Abyss' n. 

 1230 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 373 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 72. P. jumento- 

 rnm, A. Rich. I. c. 373 (non Pars.). P. miliare, Wall. Cat n. 871? A (in part) 

 E. P. miliare, /3 simplex, Herb. Royle. P. mucronatum, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8717 (inpart). PP. notatum, Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6. P. Neesianum, 

 Wight fy Am. ex Steud. 1. c. 74. P. porphyrrhizos, Sttud. I. c. P. rigidum, 

 Iltrb. Heyne ex Wall. Cat n. 8714 A (in part). P. Eoxburghii, Sprenq. 

 S-yst. i. 320 ; Eunth Enum. PL i. 126 ; Steud. 1. c. 98. P. tenellum, Eojcb. FL. 

 Ind. i. 306; Duthie I.e. 7. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8713, 871i A (inpart). 



The PAXJAB and GANGETIC PLAIN to CHITTAGONG and southward to MADRAS. 

 KUMAOJN, up to 5000 it. DISTKIB. China, Borneo, Afr. trop. 



