Panicum.~\ CLXXIII. GRAMINEJI. (J. D. Hooker.) 57 



hispidulous, gl. I = about % III obtuse or acute 3-nerved, TIT 5-nerved. 

 Kunth Enum. PL i. 116 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 206 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 305 ; 

 Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 359 (in part] ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 205. P. difforme, 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 52. P. gibbum, Steud. I. c. 87. P. radicans, Suhse in Miq. 

 PL Jungh. 375; Miq. FL Ind. Sat. iii. 453 (non ' Eetz}. P. repens and' 

 Burmanni, Heyne ex Herb. Wight. Aira repens, Hb. Heyne ex Wall, Cdt. 

 n. 8743 A. Panicum, Wall. Cat. 8743 A. C. 



LOWER BENGAL, Wallich. The DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne, &c. CEYLON, 

 Walker, &c., Thwaites (C.P. n. 8h8). DISTRIB. Java. 



Perennial. Stem as thick as packthread, decumbent branching and interlaced 

 below ; branches erect. Leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous or laxly hairy ; sheath 

 glabrous or margin ciliate ; ligule rounded,- Panicle 1-1% in., rachis and short 

 suberect branches glabrous ; gl. I-III pale brown ; tip of IV naked or bearded. 



51. P. pilipes? Nees 8f Arn. ex Buse in Miq. PL Jungh. iii. 376 ; tall, 

 leaves 2-6 in., panicle contracted, branches short with often slender hairs 

 on the pedicels, spikelets ^ in. very shortly pedicelled glabrous, gl. I = 

 about i III obtuse 3-nerved, III 5-nerved. Wight Cat. n. 2343; Miq. 

 FL Ind. Bat. iii. 453; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 105. P. herxnaphroditum, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 67; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 485. P. oxyphyllum, 

 Hochst. ex Steud. I. c. 65. ? P. c-irinatum, Presl Eel. Haenk. \. 309 (ex 

 Hack, in Engl. Sot. Jahrb. vi. (1885) 235). Panicum y Wall. Cat. n. 8743 

 B. D. 



SIKKIM TEBAI, Clarke. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 0-2500 ft., common. BURMA, 

 CENTRAL PROVINCES, NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 4000 ft., the MALAY PENINSULA, 

 NICOBAR ISLDS. and CEYLON (C.P. 100, 709, 891). DISTRIB. Tonkin, Malaya, 

 Australia, Pacific Islds., Mascarene Islds. and Madagascar. 



Perennial. Stem 1-2 ft., geniculately ascending from a slender creeping branching 

 base, lower nodes rooting, upper subpubescent. Leaves i-l in. diam., glabrous or 

 sparsely hairy above, puberulous beneath, finely acuminate, base narrow ; sheath 

 glabrous or ciliate, mouth hairy ; ligule rounded. Panicle 3-5 in. ; branches rather 

 remote, erect or spreading with short fastigiate branchlets ; spikelets brown j gl. IV 

 white, its palea narrow, patent, hard. The Madagascar and Seychelle Islds. P. mul- 

 tinode, Lamk, is very closely allied, if not the same, in which case that name takes 

 priority. In Nicobar specimens the spikelets are sparsely pubescent. Thwaites 

 regarded pilipes as a form of P. trigonum. 



** Pedicels capillary, much longer than the spikelets. 



52. P. patens, Linn. Sp. PL 86 ; stem creeping and rooting below, 

 leaves ovate'to linear-lanceolate glabrous or ciliated below with tubercle- 

 based hairs, panicle contracted or effuse, rachis branches and pedicels 

 capillary, gl. I = - III ovate obtuse 3-nerved, II and III glabrous or 

 with ciliate tips. Burm. FL Ind. t. 10, f. 2 ; Spreng. Syst. i. 322 (excl. syn. 

 multinode) ; Kunth Enum. PL i. 126 (excl. syn. Roxb.}. P. accrescens,, 

 Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 88, Sf corrigend. vol. iii. ; Kunth I. c. 1 16. P. obliquum, 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 51 ; Kunth I. c. 103; Miq. FL Ind. Sat. iii. 452. P. radi- 

 cans, Eetz. Obs. iv. 18; ? Trin. Pan. Gen. 218; Nees Agrost. Eras. 206; 

 Kunth I c. 216 ; Wight Cat. n. 2344. P. trigonum, in part, Tfiw. Enum. 

 PL Zeyl. 359. P. velutinum, Willd. Herb, ex Spreng. I. c. Panicum, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 8738, 8740.' 



Throughout India, from the LOWER HIMALAYA in Garwhal to Sikkim, and the 

 KHASIA HILLS, ascending to 3000- ft., southward to the MALAYAN PENINSULA and 

 CEYLON. -DISTRIB. E. tropical Asia and the Malay and Pacific Islds. 



Stem 1-3 ft., branched below, leafy j nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-6 by -3 in., 



