86 CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pvnnisetums. 



6. P. parviflorum, Trin. Diss. ii. 65, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 288 ; annual, 

 erect, peduncle and rachis glabrous, spike very narrow purple, spikelets 

 in. solitary narrowly lanceolate, gl. I minute suborbicular, II longest 

 truncate cuspidate 5-nerved, III = f II truncate toothed 5-nerved paleate 

 male, IV = III lanceolate obtuse nerveless shining. Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 103. P. imberbe, Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. (1852) 181 (name) ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 104 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 10, Indig. Fodd. Grass. 

 t. 50, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 18. Gymnothrix hordeoides, Kunih Revis. 

 Gram. i. 48, JSnum. i. 60. Panicum hordeoides, Poir. in Lam. Illust. i. 

 170. Alopecurus rubicundus, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8646 B. 



BAJPUTANA ; at Oodeypore, Wjngate (Herb Duthie). BEHAK, on Parusnath, 

 and at Hazaribagh, Clarice. DISTRIB. tropical Africa. 



Stem 2-3 ft., branching upwards, leafy, branches erect. Leaves 4-10 by 3 in., 

 flat, base and mouth of sheath ciliate. Spikes 3-5 by -3 in. diam. ; rachis very 

 sh-nder, strict, as it were crenate from the projections between the close-set spike- 

 lets ; bristles of sessile involucel very slender, quite free, a few 4-6 times as 

 long as the spikelet. Closely allied to P. setosa. Probably not indigenous in 

 India. 



ft Bristles unlranched, inner copiously ciliate or lanate. 



7. P. orientale, Rich, in Pers. Syn. }. 72 ; perennial, rachis of spike 

 hairy, spikelets 2-5 in each pedicelled involucel ^ in. lanceolate, gl. I = III 

 ovate or oblong nerveless, II shorter than IY ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 3-nerved, III longest aristately acuminate 5-nerved, IV oblong-lanceolate 

 aristate shining. Trin. Diss. ii. 69; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 162, ii. 117; 

 Griseb. in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iv. 472 ; Coss. ty Dur. Fl. Alger. ii. 39 ; Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 445; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 10. P. araneosum, Edgew. in 

 Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xxi. (1852), 180; Steud. Syn. Gram. 105; Aitcliis. 

 Cat. Panjab. PI. 162; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 10. P. asperifolium, 

 \Kunth Revis. Gram,, i. 49, Enum. PI. 1. c. P. elatum, Hochst. ex Steud. 

 Nom. Ed. II. ii. 297. P. fasciculatum, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 

 6, iii. II. (1835) 181. P. Griffithii, Munro Cat. PI. Griff. #c. ined. 56. P. 

 macrostachyum, Fresen. in Mus. SenJcenb. ii. 135 (non Trin.). P. persicum, 

 Boiss. # Buhse in Nov. Mew. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xii. (1860) 232. P. phalari- 

 forme, Steud. Syn. Gram. 106 (ex descript.}. P. Ruppellii, Steud. Nom. I.e. 

 298. P. sinaicum, Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2, ii. (1834) 11 ; Aitchis. I. c. 

 Duthie I. c. P. tenue & variabile, Fig. $ Notar. in Mem. Accad. Torin Ser. 

 2, xii. (1852), 246, 248. P. tiberiadis, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. I. xiii. 43. Cenchrus 

 asperifolius, Desf. Fl. Atlant. ii. 388. C. hordeiformis, Pers. I. c. 71 (non 

 Lamk.}. C. oriental!?, Willd. ex Trin. Diss. ii. 69; Kunth I.e. 162. 

 Panicum orientale, Willd. Enum. Sort. Berol. ii. 1031. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 3-6000 ft. The PANJAB, 

 SINDH, the CONCAN and BEHAB (on Parusnath, alt. 2000 ft., Clarice). DISTEIB. 

 Westward to Asia Minor and N. Afr. 



Stem 26 ft., erect or ascending from a densely tufted often stout creeping 

 branching rootstock. Leaves 1-2 ft. by -| in., narrowly linear, flat or subconvolute, 

 glabrous or hairy. Spike 5-16 in. ; rachis stout, subterete, not grooved or notched ; 

 pedicels of involucels hispid ; bristles f-f in., all very slender, flexuous, often pur- 

 plish, very unequal, villous below, quite free at the base; spikelets on the short 

 branches of a hispid pedicel, outer often imperfect. 



Var. trifiorum, Stapf mss. ; spike elongate dense-flowered. P. triflornm, Nees 

 in Herb. Royle ; Steud. I. c. 107. 



8. P. pedicellatum, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. iii. 



