246 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



glabrous, 2-fid, awned or not ; palea oblong, tip notched. Anthers very minute, 

 short. Ovary ovoid. The starved Tibetan specimens are the P. fugax, Nees, they 

 pass insensibly into the larger form. I have not found P. maritimus from any part 

 of India. It may be distinguished by the deeply cleft gl. I and II. 



2. P. littoralis, 8m. Compend. PL Brit. 13, Engl. Sot t. 1251 ; 

 annual or perennial, panicle lobed, gl. I and II subentire or notched, awn 

 twice as long as the gl. or less, III awned or not. Kunth JEnum. PL i. 

 233 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 31, vii. t. 75 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 184 ; Benth. 

 Fl. HongJc. 427 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 521 ; Duihie Grass. N. W. Ind. 30. 

 P. elongatum, Lagasc. Gen. 8f Sp. Nov. 3 (non Kunth}. P. Lagascse, 

 Roem. fy Sch. Syst. ii. 226 ; Trin. Diss. 1, 170. P. demissus, Steud I. c. 

 AgrosHis littoralis, Knapp. Gram. Britt. t. 22. A. lutosa, Poir. Encycl. 

 Suppl. i. 249 ; Roem. & Sch. I. c. i. 358. Santia elongata, Parlat. in Webb. 

 Phyt. Canar. Sect. iii. 393. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-10,000 ft., from Kashmir to Bhotan and 

 Muunepore. WESTERN TIBET j Iskardo, Thomson. DISTRIB. Temp, and subtrop. 

 regions. 



Except by the uniformly shorter awns of the spikelets and usually broader lobcd 

 panicle, I find it very difficult to distinguish the annual form of this species from the 

 common one of P. monspeliensis. In India P. littoralis does not descend to the 

 plains, nor does it in the hills assume the filiform starved state of P. monspeliensis. 

 In Europe it is always described as perennial, and as usually a littoral plant with a 

 creeping root. The following forms occur in India. 



P. littoralis proper ; perennial, stem decumbent creeping and rooting below. 



Var. Higegaweri ; annual, stems tutted ascending. P. Higegaweri, Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 422; Griseb in Goett. Nachr. (1863) 82. 



Var. muticus ; perennial, stems creeping and rooting, gls. I and II apiculate, III 

 awnless. Kuuuwur, Thomson. 



70. SPKJEROCARYUBX, Nees. 



A dwarf annual. Stem .creeping and ascending, leafy throughout. 

 Leaves ovate- cordate, acute, amplexicaul. Spikelets 1-tid., very minute, 

 ovoid, pedicelled on the close-set capillary branches of a pyramidal panicle 

 which is sessile in the axil of the uppermost leaf, jointed on the pedicels ; 

 rachilla jointed at the base, not produced beyond gl. III. Glumes 3, 

 cymbiform ; I and II glabrous, hyaline ; I nerveless; II longest, 1-nerved ; 

 lil hirsute, 1-nerved; palea as long as the gl., oblong, obtuse, keels 

 distant. Lodicules 2, very minute* Stamens 3, anthers linear. Ovary 

 narrowly ellipsoid ; styles short, free. Grain ovoid, free, pericarp adherent 

 to the seed. 



S. eleg-ans, Nees ex Steud. Norn. Ed. II. ii. 620. Sphserocarpum 

 elegans, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 256. Grayia elegans, Nees in Wight Cat. n. 

 2033; Steud. Syn. Gram. 119. G. zeylanica, Am. ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. 

 i. 705. Isachne pulchella, Both. Nov. Sp. 58 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 136 ; 

 Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 362 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 414. Panicum elegans, Wight fy Arn. ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. ii. 256. P. 

 malaccense, T^rin. Gram. Panic. 204 ; Nees Agrost. Sras. 212 ; Kunth I. c. 

 113: Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 457. P. pulchellum, Spreng. Syst. i. 322. 

 Agrostis malaccensis, Koen. ex Heyne in Herb. Rottl. Andropogon 

 Grayia, Steud. Nom. I. c. i, 91. Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8736. 



