1 44 GraminecB. \Panicum. 



certainly not the P. Petiverii of Trinius (as supposed by Thvvaites), which 

 is P. prostratum. 



17. P. remotum, Rets. Obs. iv. 17 (1780). 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 39 (not given for Ceylon). Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 176 

 f. c. (P. Petiverii). 



Stems 1-2 ft., often from a woody rootstock, prostrate, 

 straggling, and geniculately branched below, very slender, 

 firm, internodes 1-2 in., nodes glabrous ; 1. 2-4 in., very 

 narrowly linear from a rounded base, acuminate, fiat, smooth, 

 margins smooth, midrib very slender, sheath quite glabrous, 

 upper 1-3 in., ligule a very short glabrous or puberulous 

 ridge ; panicle 1-3 in,, of few, distant, strict or flexuous, 

 2-6-fld., almost capillary, spreading spikes \-\\ in. long, 

 rhachis of panicle filiform, of spikes glabrous or very sparsely 

 pubescent; spikelets distant, solitary or binate, To~i m -> oval, 

 terete, obtuse ; glume I about one-third as long as III, 

 orbicular-ovate, 3-5-veined, II and III subequal, ovate, 

 subacute, glabrous or minutely pubescent, 5-7-veined, III 

 5 -veined, paleate, empty, palea smaller than the glume, 

 IV obovoidly oval or oblong, acute, quite smooth, thinly 

 coriaceous, base minutely stipitate. 



Northern Prov. Mullaittivu (Ferguson) ; Kalpitiya Isld., &c, Jaffna 

 distr. (Trimen). 



Bengal and the South Deccan. 



The Mullaittivu specimens are ticketed in Herb. Perad. l P. Petiverii y 

 dwarf creeping form (Hackel).' 



18. P. canaliculatum, Nees in Wight, Cat. n. 1624 (1836). 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 55. P. stenostachyum, Thw. Enum. 436. C. P. 3845. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 43. 



Quite glabrous; stems many from a small hard rootstock, 

 2 -4ft. long, slender, flaccid, decumbent, rooting below, sparingly 

 branched, leafy, internodes 2-3 in., nodes glabrous ; 1. 4-6 in., 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, flat, thin, flaccid, 

 base narrow, rounded, margins nearly smooth, mid vein rather 

 strong, sheath 1-2 in., margins eciliate, ligule a short ciliate 

 membrane ; panicle 4-8 in., very narrow, rhachis filiform, 

 smooth, erect, bearing very short distant (rarely crowded) 

 fascicles or spikes of spreading (rarely solitary) spikelets; 

 spikelets \ in., shortly pedicelled, oblong, glabrous, pedicels 

 scaberulous; glumes thin, faintly veined, I and II very short,, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, hyaline, I one-fourth to one-third as 

 long as III, 3-veined, II 3-veined, rather longer than I,. 

 about half as long as III, which is oblong-ovate, acute, 5-7- 

 veined, paleate, male or empty, palea as long as the glume r 

 linear-oblong, margins broadly inflexed, IV as long as III r 



