Panicum.] Graminece. 139 



base, acuminate, thin, flat, faintly scaberulous above, glabrous 

 or ciliate with long white hairs at the base, margins cartila- 

 ginous, scaberulous, sheaths slender, 1-2 in., margins ciliate, 

 ligule a brush of white hairs; panicle of 5-8 alternate, secund 

 spikes, rhachis of panicle slender, strict, smooth ; spikes 

 \-\\ in., sessile or very shortly peduncled, distichously 

 spreading, rhachis very slender, smooth ; spikelets -^"tV m -> 

 solitary or binate, loosely bifariously or subtrifariously im- 

 bricate, secund, oval, subacute, glabrous, pedicels very short, 

 pubescent, and with a few very long white hairs; glume I 

 very short, not one-fourth of III, semi-lunar, hyaline, veinless, 



II and III subequal, thin, broadly ovate, acute, II 7-veined, 



III 5-veined, paleate, empty, palea hyaline, IV oblong, 

 mucronate, dorsally rounded, coriaceous, minutely rugulose, 

 pale, margins narrowly incurved, base forming a very short 

 thickened stipes. 



Hotter parts of the Island ; common. 



Tropics generally. 



Thwaites's No. 3236 consists of this and P. setigerum, which is easily 

 distinguished by the larger spikelets and large veined glume I. Cattle 

 are fond of it (Ferguson). 



10. P. villosum, Lamk. Illustr. i. 173 (1791). 



P. coccosftermmn, Steud. ; Thw. Enum. 359. P. grossarium, Roxb.;. 

 Moon, Cat. 8. C. P. 3241. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 34. 



Annual; stem 6-12 in., very slender, ascending from the 

 root, much branched below, leafy below the middle, softly 

 hairy below, glabrous above, upper internodes long, nodes 

 villously bearded; 1. \-i\ in., ovate or ovate-lanceolate from 

 a rounded base, acute, flat, thin, softly hairy on both surfaces, 

 margin not cartilaginous, softly ciliate, sheath rather loose, 

 hairy and ciliate, ligule a ridge of hairs ; panicle long- 

 peduncled, narrow, of 5-10 alternate secund short sessile or 

 subsessile spikes, rhachis of panicle smooth, angular; spikes 

 6-8, gradually shorter upwards, ^-^in., alternate, rather distant, 

 sessile or peduncled, spreading, rhachis of spikes filiform, 

 flexuous, pubescent and setose with long white hairs; spikelets 

 few, subsessile, T V in., oval, apiculate, close set, secund in two 

 series; glume I about one-fourth as long as III, orbicular,, 

 hyaline, 1 -veined, II and III thin, subequal, orbicular, sub- 

 acute, pubescent, 5-7-veined, III empty, paleate, IV sessile, 

 coriaceous, ovate or oval, acute or apiculate, dorsally rounded, 

 minutely granulate, pale yellow, margins narrowly incurved,, 

 base obtuse. 



Central Province ; upper montane zone, ascending to 6000 ft. 



Hill regions of India, Burma, and Tonkin. 



