48 CLXXITI. GEAMINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



Annual. Stem 6 in. 3 ft., tufted, erect or geniculate below, leafy chiefly near 

 the base; nodes rarely rooting. Leaves 3-10 by |-^ in., usually flat, thin, acumi- 

 cate, glabrous hairy or hirsute on both surfaces or beneath only ; ligule short, fim- 

 briate. Panicle 4-10 in., erect, often as broad as long. Spikelets green, yellow or 

 purplish ; gl. IV. variable in breadth, and in colouring, from pure white to greenish- 

 brown, with 3-5 darker dorsal stripes. Nees Fl. Air. Austr. 51 has referred P. 

 trypheron, Sch. to P. curvatum, L., a very different plant, and not a native of 

 Bengal. 



35. P. humile, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 84 ; dwarf, slender, leaves 

 very narrow glabrous base narrow, panicle broad effuse lax-fid., branches 

 subsolitary long spreading naked i'ew-fld., branch-lets capillary, spikelets 

 Yg- in. pedicelled ovate acute glabrous, gl. I = III broadly ovate acumi- 

 nate 3-nerved, II longest ovate-lanceolate acuminate 3-nerved, III ovate 

 acute 3-5-nerved paleate neuter, IV much shorter broadly oblong obtuse 

 pale shining. Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 360 (CP. 3243) ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 

 105; Duthie Grass. N.W Ind. 4, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 9. P. tenellum, 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 21, Ic. PL AsiaL t. 139, f. 194 (non Roxb.). 



The PANJAB. Thomson; BENGAL, ASSAM, SIKKIM, ARRACAN, and southward to 

 CEYLON.' DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Annual. Stem 2-24 in., erect or geniculate below, much branched and often 

 flowering from the base. Leaves 2-8 by |-| in., flat, base hardly cordate ; sheath 

 glabrous, or mouth sparsely hairy. Panicle 1-3 in., often as long as the whole plant, 

 very laxly and diffusely branched. Spikelets minute, pale or reddish. 



36. P. hydaspicum, Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 207 ; 

 dwarf, leaves linear-lanceolate hirsute base narrow, panicle effuse much 

 branched glabrous, branches erecto-patent alternate rarely opposite and 

 branchlets and pedicels filiform, spikelets iV~rj ^ n< equalling or shorter 

 than their pedicels solitary ovate acute glabrous, gls. membranous, nerves 

 strong, I = III ovate acuminate 5-nerved, II and III subequal ovate 

 subacute 5-7-nerved, III paleate, IV elliptic obtuse brown shining. 

 Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PI. 159; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 4. P. humile, 

 Aitchis. L c. 



The PANJAB and UPPER GANGETIC PLAIN; from the Ravee to the Indus. 

 Edgeworth, &c. CENTRAL PROVINCES, Duthie. 



Annual. Stem 6-18 in., geniculately ascending, rather stout below, branching 

 from the very base. Leaves and sheaths clothed more 1 or less thickly with long white 

 hairs; sheaths inflated in some states. Leaves 1-2 by -5 in., flat, soft, acute; 

 ligule a row of hairs. Panicle 24 in., peduncled, erect, ovoid rachis, and branches 

 quite smooth, hsrclly flexuous. Spikelets pale green, except the dark brown gl. IV; 

 palea of III smaller than the gl., oblong. 



37. P. caesium, Nees in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. (1850) 97 ; erect, stout, 

 hairy, leaves linear base narrow subcordate, panicle large erect subthyr- 

 siform much branched, branches suberect lower fascicled, spikelets T V~iV i n - 

 subsessile except the terminal broadly ovoid turgid nerves anastomosing, 

 gl. I = ?-4 HI ovate obtuse 5-nerved, II and III subequal ovate acute 

 7-9-nerved, palea linear, IV = II elliptic-ovate obtuse pale smooth shining. 

 P. reticulatum, Thw. ex Trimen Cat. Ceyl. PL 105 (non Griseb.}. Panicum, 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8744. 



BENGAL, in the Jheels, J.D. II. & T. T. CACHAE, Keenan. MALACCA, 

 NICOBAR ISLDS., Kurz. CEYLON ; PAsdoon Corl, Ihwaites (CP. 3890). DISTRIB. 

 Borneo, N. Guinea, Philippines. 



