52 CLXXIII. GRAMINES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



and in the spikelet- being; obscurely jointed on the pedicel. A very closely allied 

 plant collected by Reddome in the Anamallay hills has a much broader rounded and 

 cordate leaf-base, the spikelets are too immature for description. 



41. P. antidotale, Retz. Ols. iv. 17; tall, glabrous, branching, leaves 

 linear flat base rounded, panicle large effuse or contracted, branches 

 slender glabrous lower fascicled divided from the base, spikelets ^ in. 

 shortly pedicelled solitary or clustered ovoid acute, gl. I and II with 

 broad membranous margins, I = \ III broadly ovate acute 5-nerved, IL 

 arfd. III subequal strongly 5-7-nerved, II obtuse, III paleate, IV ovate or 

 oblong acute smooth. Trin. Gram. Pan. 227, Pan. (rero.195 ; Nees Ayrost. 

 Bras. 201 ; Kuntli Enum. PI. i. 125 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 77 ; Wight Cat. n. 

 1630; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 360; Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PI. 105; Aitchis. Cat. 

 Punjab PI. 158; Dnthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 2, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 3, 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 4; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 483;' Bois*. Fl. Orient, v. 

 440. P. maximum, Wall. Cat. n. 8715 B (in part) C (in part). P. poly- 

 gamum, Herb. Madr. ex Wight Cat. n. 1630. P. pruinosum, Bernh. ex 

 Trin. Pan. Gen. 191. P. subalbidum, Kunth Revis. Gram. ii. 397, t. 112, 

 Enum. 101. P. tenue, Roxb. ex Wight Cat. (sub n. 1628 non Fl. Ind.). 

 Milium arundinaceum, Koen. ex Wight Cat. I. c. 



The PANJAB and UPPER GANGETIC plain, and southward to "the S. DECCAN and 

 CEYLON. DISTRIB. Affghan., Afric., trop. Austral. 



Perennial, sometimes shrubby, with a stout creeping rootstock bearing villously 

 sheathed stolons ; branches as thick as a crow-quill ; internodes solid, woody, terete, 

 smooth ; nodes thickened. Leaves 6 by in., narrowed from the base to the slender 

 tip, flat, rather rigid, smooth on both surfaces, base narrow rounded, midrib distinct ; 

 nerves many, slender; sheaths quite smooth ; ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle 6 in. 

 high, branches filiform, lower nearly 2 in. long, sparingly divided ; branchlets rather 

 short ; capillary. Spikelets quite glabrous ,- gls. rather thin, pale green ; paleaof III 

 nearly as long as the gl., 2 -toothed, nerves strong or slender; IV shorter than III, 

 shortly stipitate, coriaceous, margins incurved ; palea as large as the gl. Lodicules 

 minute, orbicular. Filaments very short; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary narrow; 

 styles short, free, stigmas broad. Roxburgh describes P. tenue as having "seeds 

 ovate transversely waved," whereas they are quite smooth in P. aniidotale. 



42. P. elegantissimum, Hoolc.f.\ tall, erect from the base, very 

 slender, leaves subradical very long narrow softly pubescent base narrow, 

 peduncle very long and slender, panicle effuse very broad laxly few-fld., 

 branches long alternate distant solitary naked below and branchlets 

 capillary quite smooth, spikelets -^ in. few on each branchlet shortly 

 pedicelled. ovate acuminate, gl. I about ^ III ovate mucronate 5-7-nerved, 

 II and III stipitate subequal ovate cuspid ately acuminate, II 7-nerved 5 

 of the nerves strong above, III nerves 7 slender, palea small ovate, I.V 

 elliptic-oblong obtuse as long as II white shining smooth. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Perak, Ridley. 



Perennial. Stem 2-3 ft., tufted, and branched at the very base, stiff. Leaves 

 chiefly subradical, 10-18 by i in., gradually narrowed from the base to the slender 

 tip, strict, subereet, softly hairy all over; mouth of sheath villous ; ligule a fascicle 

 of hairs. Panicle 12-18 by 6-12 in., scaberulous ; branches 1-3 in. apart. Spikelets 

 very few and remote, reddish ; gl. I inserted much below the others ; IV sessile by 

 a broad base. A most elegant grass. 



43. P. acroanthum, Steud. Syn. Gram. 87 ; glabrous, erect, very 

 slender, leaves narrow base contracted, panicle broad very efluse lax-fid., 



