81 CLXXIII. GEAMINE^E. (J. H. Hooker.) [Pennitetum. 



awn an inch long. Penicillaria cylindrica, R. fy S. j Wight Cat. n. 1662. A 

 diseased form. 



Sect. II. PENNISETUM proper. Anther-cells not bearded. 

 * Bristles of involucel all free to the base, slender, 

 f Bristles branched. 



1. P. lanatum, Klotzscli in Sot. Erg. Waldem. Reise, 65, t. 93. 

 P. sericeum, Munro mss. P. nepalense, Griseb. in Goett. Nadir. (1868) 302 

 (non Spreng.) 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 7-9000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Garwhal, and WESTERN 

 TIBET, Jacquemont, &c. 



Perennial ; rootstock often stout, woody, creeping and branching ; stem 1-3 ft. 

 Leaves 6-18 by \\ in., flat, glabrous hairy or silkily villons. Spikes 2-5 in., - | in. 

 diam., pale green; peduncle and rachis more or less villous ; involucels pedieelled, 

 densely imbricate. Spikelets -i in., solitary in the involucels, rather shorter than the 

 scabrid and sparsely ciliate branching bristles; gl. I = III, ovate, acute; II = 

 IV, oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved, III and IV lanceolate, acuminate, 5-nerved. 



ft Bristles unbranched, scaberulous, not or sparingly ciliate. 



2. P. Alopecuros, Steud. Syn. Gram. 102 (non Jacq.) ; peduncle and 

 rachis of spike glabrous, spikelets 5 in. solitary narrowly lanceolate, gl. I 

 minute, II = III oblong obtuse 1-3-nerved, III lanceolate acuminate 

 7-11-nerved, IV subulate-lanceolate 5-nerved. Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 

 10 ; L>sloa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1890) 338. P. Hohenackeri, 

 Hochst. ex Steud. I. c. 103. P. aureum, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 294 ; 

 ? Link. Hort. Berol. i. 215. Gymnothrix Alopecuros, Nees in Wight Cat. 

 n. 1663; Steud. I.e. G. cenchroides, Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 499 ;> Kunth 

 Enum. PI. i. 155 ; Wight ex Steud Syn. Gram. 102. Cenchrus hordeiformis, 

 Herb. Rottl. ex Sttud. 1. c. 102 (non Thunb,}. Panicum helvolum, Herb. 

 Madr. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8652 A. Pan. hordeiforme, Thunb. Fl Japan. 46 

 (partfy). Gymnothrix ? Wall. Cat. n. 8652. 



RAJPUTANA ; swamps on Mt. Abu, Duthie. The CONCAN, Stocks, &c. NILGHIRI 

 HILLS, alt. 5500 ft. 



Perennial. Stems 2-3 ft., stout, erect, densely tufted below, subdistichously 

 brandling upwards; branches strict, erect. Leaves 12-18 by ^-i in., coriaceous, 

 convolute, glabrous, base and flattened distichous sheath often villous ; ligule of 

 hairs. Spikes 5-7 in., usually pale green ; rachis flexuous ; involucels very shortly 

 pedicelled ; bristles few, very unequal, nearly straight, longest 2-3 times as long as 

 the spikelet, bases quite free ; gl. I suborbicular. Habit of P. compressum. The 

 _Fv aureum of the Bombay Flora is, I do not doubt, P. Alopecuros, but what P. aureum 

 of Link may be is uncertain. 



3. P. flaccidum, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 86? peduncle and 

 rachis of spike glabrous, spikelets % in. solitary ovate-lanceolate, gl. I very 

 small orbicular or 0, II = f IV lanceolate 5-nerved, III and IV ovate- 

 lanceolate subsetaceously acuminate 5-nerved. Duthi'e Grass. N.W. Ind. 10. 

 P. mongoHcum, Franch.mss. Gymnothrix flaccida, Munro ex Aitchis. Cat. 

 Panjab. PI. 163. 



Temperate and alpine HIMALAYA, alt. 5-11,000 ft. ; from Kashmir to W. Nepal 

 and WF.STEEN TIBET. DISTRIB. Affghan., Central Asia. 



Perennial. Stem 6-24 in., densely tufted, creeping below, branching at the base 

 only, slender above. Leaves 5-10 by - in., flat, glabrous or sparsely hairy, base 



