58 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Panicum. 



thin, finely acuminate ; margins and mouth of sheath ciliate; ligule rounded. Panicle 

 2-5 in., usually inclined with spreading glabrous or puberulous branches naked 

 below, and very long distant spreading brauchlets. Spikelets -^ s in. long. Very 

 variable in the size of the whole plant and of its leaves and panicle. The smaller 

 forms agree with the specimens of P. patens in the Linnean Herbarium, and are 

 Wallich's n. 8740, and n. 8738 C. ; the larger are P. accrescens of Trinius (referred 

 by himself to obliquum, Roth.), and are Wallich's 8738 A. B. D. A small variety ? 

 with larger' spikelets, nearly -^ in. long, occurs in the Nilghiris (Herb. Wight 

 n. 3047); at Goodavery Ghats, Lawson; and in Ceylon, at Newera Elia (C.P. 

 n. 886). 



53. P. long-ipes, Wight et Arn. in Wight Cat. n. 1638; tall, leaves 

 4-10 in., panicle 5-10 in. fastigiately supra-decompound, branches and 

 long pedicels capillary, spikelets T ^ in. glabrous, gl. I nearly = III ovate 

 acuminate 3-nerved, II and III acute Aira capillaris, Heyne in Herb. 

 Eottler, & in Wall. Cat. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8741. 



NILQHIKI and PULNET HILLS, Heyne, &c.j Karkun Ghat, alt. 2000 ft., 

 Lawson. 



Stem 2-3 ft. and upwards, as thick as a crow-quill, quite smooth, base decumbent. 

 Leaves ^f in. broad, finely acuminate, narrowed and sparsely hairy at the base, 

 finely puberulous beneath ; sheath nearly glabrous ; ligule rounded. Panicle sub- 

 fastigiately branched ; branches simple sometimes naked below for an inch and 

 more, then fastigiately branched. Spikelets pale brown ; gl. Hand III with sparingly 

 ciliolate tips. Distinguished from P. patens by the greater size, robuster habit, 

 and much larger spikelets with acute glumes. What may be a small state of it was 

 found at Golaghat, Seebsagur, by Clarice. Compare also the form of P. patens with 

 larger spikelets. 



54. P. sparsicomum, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 83 ; stem filiform 

 diffusely branched, leaves 1-2| in. softly pubescent, panicle effuse of few 

 long capillary branches and branchlets, spikelets y 1 ^ in. oblong glabrous, 

 gl. I = ^ III faintly 3-nerved, II longest and III ovate-lanceolate acute 

 5-nerved, IV thin pale. Wight Cat. -a. 1635 (name). Agrostis zeylanica? 

 Herb. Wight. ; Klein ex Steud. I. c. 83. 



CEYLON ; Cookie or Cocklaj, Jan. 23rd, 1796, Heyne in Herb. Roitl. 



Stems 6-18 in., almost capillary, rooting at the nodes. Leaves %-? in. broad, 

 acuminate, hairy on both surfaces ; sheaths and their mouths hairy. Panicle on a 

 filiform peduncle, 3-4 in. long and broad. Spikelets few, distant ; gl. IV not so 

 strongly laterally compressed and gibbous as in its allies. A very distinct species, I 

 think, but not easily characterized. 



Sect. IX. PSETTDECHINOLJENA. (See p. 28.) 



55. P. uncinatum, _fta(?^ Agrost. Bras. 41; Trin. Gram. Panic. 

 174, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 216; Eunth Enum. PI. i. 172; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 60 ; Thw. Enum. PL Zeylan. 359 ; Trim. Oat. Ceyl. PL 105. P. 

 echinatnm, Willd. ex Doell'in Mart. PL Bras. ii. II, 193. P. glandulosum, 

 Nees ex Trin. Gram. Panic. 174. P. heteranttmm, Link Enum.. Hort. Berol. 

 i. 212. P. nemorosum /3, Trin. I.e. 174. P. Trinii, Mor. Syst. Verz. Zoll. 

 102. Echinolaena polystachya, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. fy Sp. i. 119, t. 679 ; 

 Kunth 1. c. i. 172, Suppl. 127. Cenchrus lappaceus, Herb. Heyne. ? Lap- 

 pago aliena, Spreng. Neue Entdeck. iii. 15. Echinolaena, Wall. Cat. n. 

 8661. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA ; from Nepal to Sikkim, alt. 3-6000 ft. KHASIA, NAGA, 



