Paniatm.] Gramine<z. 141 



linear - lanceolate from a narrow pubescent base, finely 

 acuminate, thin, flat, smooth, glabrous or pubescent beneath 

 or on both surfaces, margins scaberulous, midrib very 

 slender, sheath 1-3 in., glabrous or pubescent, margins eciliate, 

 ligule a fringe of short hairs ; panicle long peduncled, sub- 

 pyramidal, 2-5 in. long, of 5-10 distant, alternate or the 

 lower opposite, secund and many-fid. spikes decreasing in 

 length upwards, rhachis of panicle and spikelets slender, 

 angular, puberulous; spikes erect or spreading, lower 2-3 in. 

 long, strict or flexuous ; spikelets loosely imbricate, \-\ in., 

 solitary, rarely in pairs with one long-pedicelled, oval, acute, 

 pubescent, pedicel pubescent and setose with a few long 

 white hairs; glume I one-third as long as III, very broadly 

 ovate, subacute, 3-5-veined, II and III subequal, broadly 

 ovate, cuspidately acuminate, 5-veined, III broadest, paleate, 

 empty, palea as long as the glume, oblong, IV ovoid-oblong, 

 acute, rugulose, base with a very short broad stipes. 



Trincomalie (Glenie), Colombo, introduced (?), enclosure around Sir 

 E. Barnes' statue (Ferguson). 



Plains of India. 



Varies remarkably in the breadth of the l.-base ; narrow in Ceylon 

 specimens, very broad in some Indian. 



13. P. setig-erum, Retz. Obs. iv. 15 (1786). 



P , prostratum, forma major ; Thw. Enum. 359. P. prostratum, van. 

 korizontale, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 105. C. P. 3236 (in part). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 36. 



Stems 2-3 ft, prostrate and widely straggling below, 

 branched, slender, firm, internodes 1-2 in., nodes bearded, 

 lower rooting ; 1. 3-5 by ^-f in., ovate-lanceolate from a 

 cordate amplexicaul ciliate base, finely acuminate, flat, thin, 

 midrib very slender, slightly scaberulous above, veins 5-6 

 pairs, margins scaberulous, sheath with ciliate margins, 

 dorsally tomentose at the top, upper 2-3 in. long, ligule a 

 pencil of long woolly hairs; panicle erect, ovate, of 5-10 sub- 

 erect alternate or opposite distant spikes 1-2 in. long, rhachis 

 slender, glabrous or pubescent, rhachis of spikes slender, 

 angular, base villous ; spikelets T V~| in. long, loosely imbricate, 

 sessile or shortly pedicelled, biseriate, secund, ovoid, acute or 

 acuminate, glabrous or pubescent, pedicels pubescent and 

 with spreading white hairs longer than the spikelets ; glume 



I one-third as long as III, orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 3-veined; 



II and III subequal, broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 thin, II 7-veined, III 5-veined, paleate, neuter, palea as long 

 as the glume, subacute, IV sessile, coriaceous, oval, obtuse, 

 mucronate, dorsally compressed, granulate, margins narrowly 

 incurved, base hardly stipitate. 



