Eriochloa.] Graminece. 125 



5. P. Royieanum, Nees ex Thw. Enum. 358 (1S64). 



Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 158. Panicum fiuberuhctn, Kunth, Revis. Gram. 

 i. 32. C. P. 859. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 18. 



Perennial; stems 12-18 in., tufted, slender, erect, leafy; 

 1. 3-6 by iV—g- in., erect, narrowly linear, finely acuminate, flat, 

 glabrous or sparsely ciliate with long flexuous hairs towards the 

 base and on the sheath, ligule short, rounded, membranous ; 

 ped. slender, sometimes leafy to near the top; spikes 3-9, 

 alternate towards the summit of the ped., 3-5 in. long, erect, 

 very slender, rhachis filiform, very narrowly winged, hardly 

 broader than the spikelets, glabrous ; spikelets ^-ts i n - ^ on S> 

 secund, pedicelled, turgidly oval, rounded at both ends, pedicels 

 sometimes as long as the spikelets, glabrous or setulose ; 

 gl. I O or a minute tuft of hairs, II as long as III and 

 broader, very convex, many-veined, tomentose with short, 

 white, clavellate hairs, III oval-ovate, acute, dark brown, 

 thinly coriaceous, smooth, polished, striolate ; palea with 

 broadly inflected flaps. 



Borders of paddy fields, &c. 

 Hilly districts of India and Tropical Africa. 



Glume I is often present in Indian specimens, and sometimes nearly 

 as long as III. 



6. P. ferrottetii, Hook.f. Fl. B. Ind. vii. 20 (1896). 



Panicum Wullichianum, Wight and Arn.; Thw. Enum. 358. C. P. 



3249- 



Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. Kunth, Revis. Gram. ii. t. 3 {Panicum). 



Perennial ; stem 6-24 in., shortly creeping and branching 

 below, very slender, leafy; 1. 1-6 by \-\ in., linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, fiat, glabrous or subsilkily hairy, margins often 

 crimped, sheath loose, ciliate, ligule long, membranous; ped. 

 very long, slender ; spikes filiform, in an erect pyramidal 

 panicle 3-6 in. high, lower 1-2 in. long, whorled, angular, 

 glabrous or ciliate with scattered long hairs; spikelets ^V~r^ 

 in., scattered, subsecund, pedicelled, solitary or in pairs, 

 ovoid- oblong or lanceolate, pedicel of the upper longer than 

 the spikelet ; glumes I and II shortly pubescent, green or 

 red-brown, I shorter than III, obtuse, 5-7-veined, II acu- 

 minate, 7-9-veined, III ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, smooth; 

 stigmas nearly as long as the glume ; grain narrowly ovoid, 

 acute, embryo rather small. 



Central Province; Maturata and the Horton Plains (Thwaites). 

 Also in the Nilgiri Hills and N. Africa. 



2. ERXOCHXaOA, H. B. andK. 



Characters of a Paspahim with filiform panicled spikes, 



but base of spikelets thickened, articulate on the thickened 



