50 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



Aitchis. Cat. Punjab PL 160; Duihie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6, Fodd. Grass. 

 N. Ind. 11 ; Boiss. FL Orient, vii. 440 ; Benth. Fl. Hongfc. 412. P. airoides, 

 Br. Prodr. 190; Kunth I.e. 122. P. aquaticum, A. Rich. Tent. FL. 

 Abyss, ii. 373. P. arenarium, Brot. Fl. Lusit. i. 82, Phyt. Lusit. i. 15, t. 

 ;* Nees Agrost. Bras. i. 170, Fl. Afr. Austr. 37; Trin. Pan. Gen. 181. 



Cat. n. 1627; Wall. Cat. n. 8710. P. mnltinode, Laink. Encycl. iv. 747 

 (ex Nees Agrost. Bras.}. P. paludosum, Hochst. ex Steud. I. c. 72 (not of 

 Roxb.). P. polystachion, Ucria, Hort. Reg. Panorm. 54. P. psilopodium, 

 Trin. ex Wight Cat. n. 1633 C.; Herb. Strach. % Winterb. No. 5. P. Eox- 

 burgianum, Stf>ult. Mant. ii. 245. P. sarmentosnm, Hb. Wight ex Walt. 

 ' Cat. 8710 C. PP. uliginosum, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 308 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8710 A ; 

 Kunth I. c. 126. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8714 E, 8746. 



Throughout INDIA, by banks of streams and in dry places, from the Panjab 

 eastwards and southwards. CEYLON, Walker, Gardner. DISTRIB. 13. Europe, Asia, 

 At'r., Amer. 



Stems 2-6 ft., erect or ascending from a stout creeping rootstock, leafy, simple 

 or branched below, nodes rooting. Leaves 3-6 in., strict, often glaucous, usually 

 narrow and involute, smooth, glabrous or hairy on the upper surface, margins some- 

 times toothed towards the ciliate rounded base ; sheaths with ciliute margins ; ligule 

 a narrow coriaceous ring. Panicle 3-8 in., branches usually erect, very slender, 

 angular, scaberulous ; pedicels short, tip cupular. Spikelets erect, quite glabrous ; 

 gl. I membranous, nerveless or 3-nerved ; palea of III truncate ; IV shortly broadly 

 stipitate, pale. Anthers red. Roxburgh distinguishes hi* P. uliginosum from P. 

 paludosum, (proliferum, LamJc.) by the tetragonous smooth branches of the panicle, 

 whereas in P. paludosum these are trigonous with acute hispid angles. I have seen 

 no authentic specimens of his P. uliginosum, but his figure of "Gundru" (the 

 natijye name which he gives for it) does not show this character of the panicle. 



38. P. proliferum, Lam. En^yd.iv. 747; stem erect from a floating 

 base, leaves linear or ensiform acute serrulate usually flat, panicle with 

 long' virgate spreading branches bearing short few-fld. branchlets and 

 Holitary sessile or shortly pedicelled spikelets which lie parallel to the 

 branchlet, spikelets |-| in. lanceolate, gl. 1= %-\ III orbicular, II ovate 

 acuminate 9-nerved, 111 lanceolate 9-nerved paleate or not, IV oblong 

 acuminate smooth. Nees Agrost. Bras~ 170 ; Kunth Enum PI. i. 100 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 71 ; Muell. Fragment, viii. 191 (the Ring's Creek plant). 

 P. aurantiacum, Ham. ex Wall. Cat^n. 8714 B. P. gongylodes, Jacq. 

 Jclog. Gram. iii. t. 21. PP. decomp >situm, Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 3. 

 P. decompositum, var. paludosum, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 105. P. elephan- 

 tipes, Nees Agrost. Bras. 165. P. Elliottii, Trin. ex Nees I. c. 170. P. 

 fistulosnm, Hochst. ex Steud. 1 c. 71. P. natans, Koen. ex Trin. Panic. 

 Gen. 237. P. paludosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 307; Wall. Cat. n. 8711 ; Neea 

 Fl. Afr. Austr. 35 ; Kunth I. c. 126 ; Griff. Notul. 37, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 139, 

 f. 127 ; Duthie Fo</d. Grass. N. Ind. 11. P. repens, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 

 360 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 105 ; Trin. Pan. Gen. 179. P. rigiduin, Heijnein 

 Herb. Eottl. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 87 14 A. (in part) B. C. D. 



Marshes -and still waters throughout the low countries of INDIA, from the Panjab 

 io Assam and southward. CEYLON. DISTRIB. Tropics generally. 



Perennial. Stem 2-3 ft. or more ; lower nodes spongy, as thick as the little 

 finger. Leaves t'-12 by - in., base broad but hardly cordate; sheaths loose; 



