Panicum. | GRAMINEH (Stapf). 403 
less, 3-nerved, upper equalling the spikelet, 5-nerved; lower floret 
3 valve very similar to the upper glume; pale equal, acute; 
floret equalling the ¢ floret, oblong; valve coriaceous, smooth, 
shining, straw-coloured or whitish, 5-nerved ; pale subauriculate near 
the base ; anthers in. long. Kunth, Rév. Gram. i. 233, €. 283. 
Enum. i, 118; Nees, Agrost. Bras. 143; Trin. Pan. Gen. 188, and 
tn Mém. Acad. Se. Pétersb. sér. vi. iii. 276; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 
1. 75; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. ii. 228. P. oryzoides, Sw. Prodr. 
23, not Arduin.; Kunth, Enum.i. 129; Steud. lc. 80. P. bal- 
bisianum, Schult. Mant. ii. 254. P. numidianum, Hook. Niger Fl. 
60, not Lam. P. pseudoryzoides, Stend. lc. 75. P. Ridleyi, 
Hack. in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. iii. 400. P. latifolium, Hovk. 
J. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 39, not Linn. 
Eastern Reeron: Natal; without precise locality, Gerrard, 480! 
Also in West Africa, India and tropical America. 
23. P. deustum (Thunb. Prodr. i. 19); perennial; culms from 
a very short rhizome or the to 
with few intravaginal innovation shoots, erect or geniculately 
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2-1; ft. by 4-8 lin. (rarely by 1 in.), flat, smooth except the 
below the nodes, branches scattered or subopposite or scantily 
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