1 30 GrammecB. [Pamcum. 



glabrous or setulose, 7-9-veined, III and IV equal and 

 similar, cymbiform, coriaceous, glabrous, veinless, pale, paleate, 

 III male, IV bisexual or fern., palea oblong, coriaceous; anth. 

 nearly as long as the glumes. 



Forests of the Central Province ; very common. Spikelets dark green. 

 Nikriri Hills. 



7. I. G-ardneri, Benth. in Gen. PL iii. 1100 (1? 

 /. nilagirica, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104 (non Hochst.). Pamcum 

 Gardneri, Thw. Enum. 359. C. P. 894. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 26. 



Stem slender, ascending from the much-branched shortly 

 creeping base, 1-3 ft. high, closely ribbed, leafy, internodes 

 1-3 in., nodes glabrous; 1. 2-4 by h-i\ in., ovate to ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, glabrous and smooth, or 

 scaberulous and sparsely pilose on one or both surfaces, margin 

 not thickened, scaberulous, base rounded or cordate, veins 

 very faint, sheath glabrous or hairy, margins ciliate with 

 long hairs, ligule of a few hairs; panicle 2-8 in. long, erect, 

 very lax-fid., rhachis rather stout, smooth, angular, branches 

 subefect or spreading, very unequal, lower fascicled, 3-6 in., 

 some nearly as long as the panicle, rigid, wiry, sparingly 

 divided ; spikelets \-\ in., oblong, pedicels \-\ in., fiexuous, 

 tips thickened; glumes I, II, and III membranous, I inserted 

 much below II, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3-veined, and as well as 

 II glabrous or dorsally setose, II longer than I, but broader 

 and subacute, 5-7-veined, III as long as II, elliptic-oblong, 

 subacute, glabrous, 5-veined, paleate, neuter, IV much shorter 

 than III, bisexual, oblong, cymbiform, coriaceous, pale, smooth, 

 glabrous, palea with sides almost convolute. 



Forests in the Central Province, alt. 4000-6000 ft. Spikelets dark 

 green. 



Also in the Nilgiri and Anamallay Hills. 



4. PANICUM, Linn. 

 Annual or perennial grasses of various habit ; 1. broad or 

 narrow, ligule o or of hairs; infi. very various, spiciform, race- 

 mose or panicled ; spikelets solitary or binate, small, often 

 secund, ovoid or oblong, articulate at the base and deciduous, 

 very rarely awned {P. Crus-galli), or glume IV with a short 

 awn concealed by glume III {P. ambigiium, setigerum, 

 javanicum) ; glumes 4, I and II empty, I smallest and 

 fewest-veined, II and III usually subequal, oblong, ovate or 

 lanceolate, III usually neuter, paleate or not, IV coriaceous or 

 chartaceous, sometimes shortly stipitate, convex, 5-7-veined, 



