Ichnanthus.'] Graminecs. 161 



coriaceous, margins strongy incurved, palea narrow; lodicules O; 

 grain very small, oblong, plano-convex. 



Central Province ; common in damp shady places. 

 Trop. Asia and America. 



5. ICHNANTHUS, Beauv. 



Annual or perennial grasses; stem creeping and branching 

 below; 1. lanceolate; panicle with long slender subspiciform 

 branches; spikelets subsessile, subsecund, solitary, ovate or 

 .lanceolate, terete or laterally compressed, articulate at the base, 

 but very persistent; glumes 4, strongly veined, I more than 

 half as long as III, 3-veined, II much longer than III, III 

 and IV 3-5-veined, III paleate, male, IV fern., stipitate, 

 placed transversely to the spikelet, coriaceous, smooth, later- 

 ally compressed, stipes flattened, articulate at the base, palea 

 oblong, 2-keeled; lodicules 2, minute; stam. 3; styles free at 

 the base, stigmas exserted at the top of the spikelet ; grain 

 enclosed in the deciduous, thickened, smooth glume and 

 palea. — Sp. about 20; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



This genus is scarcely distinct from Panicum y'its best character is 

 the obliquely tranverse position of the grain, and the persistence of 

 glumes I — 1 1 1. 



I. pallens, Munro in Bentli. Fl. Hongko?ig, 414 (1861). 

 Thw. Enum. 361. Panicum pallens, Sw. Prod. Fl. Ind. Occ. 23. 

 C. P. 2755. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 60. 



Perennial; stems 1-2 ft., slender, weak, ascending from a 

 ■creeping base, branching, leafy, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, 

 internodes 2-3 in., nodes glabrous or puberulous, emitting 

 usually solitary long wiry roots; 1. 2-6 by i\-\\ in., lanceolate, 

 acuminate, tip obtuse, thin, flat, glabrous smooth or scaberulous 

 above, smooth beneath, veins 3-5 pairs very slender, base 

 narrow, rounded or obliquely cordate, margins scabrid, sheath 

 loose, margins ciliate, ligule a ridge of short hairs; panicle 

 3 in. long, erect or inclined, rhachis slender, smooth, branches 

 erecto-patent, subsecund, alt. or in rather distant fascicles, 

 subspiciform, lower with often distant, imperfect, lanceolate 

 spikelets, rhachis scaberulous ; spikelets \-\ in., sessile or very 

 shortly pedicelled, glabrous; glume I more than half as long 

 as III, lanceolate, aristately acuminate, 3-veined, keel 

 scaberulous, II and III thin, II lanceolate, acuminate, keel 

 scaberulous, III oval-lanceolate, acuminate, palea as long as 

 the glume, oblong, keels ciliolate, IV much shorter than II 

 and 1 1 1, oblong, obtuse, base truncate, stipitate, dorsally convex, 

 part v. M 



