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(Woodrow teste Cooke) ; Jeur (Wood row teste Cooke); Malhargad (Woodrow 

 teste Cooke). — .S\ M. Country: Dharwar (Garade !) ; Dharwar, on pastures and 

 dry hills (Sedgwick 6144 !). 



Distribution : Punjab, Bengal, W. Peninsula, Ceylon, Cbina, Borneo. 



4. Panicum psilopodium, Trin. Gram. Panic. 217 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i, 100 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 83 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PL 161 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 

 6, Field and Gard. Crops i, t. 23, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 10 {in nota) ; Hook. f. 

 F.B.I. vii,46; Saxton & Sedgwick, Plants of N. Gujarat in Rec. Bot. Surv. 

 Jnd. vi (1918), 312 ; Haines in Bot. Bihar &Orissa 993. 



Description ; An annual,, tufted grass. Culms erect or quickly ascending, 

 30-60 cm. high, rather slender, simple or branched, usually leafy up to the 

 panicle. Leaves rather broadly linear, acute or somewhat acuminate, 7-30 cm. 

 by 4-8 mm. glabrous or with few short spreading hairs towards the base, rarely 

 thinly hairy all over. Sheaths of tea with spreading hairs which leave minute rais- 

 ed dots after falling, more usually glabrous, loose, striate. Ligule a narrow row 

 of hairs. Panicle spreading, 5-20 cm. long, with very capillary branches and 

 slender pedicels which are often 10 mm. long. Spikelets 2-3 mm. long, gemi- 

 nate, narrowly elliptic, with abruptly acute tip. Lower in vol ucral glume very 

 broadly ovate-acute, about \ the spikelet, base amplexicaul but not overlapping 

 itself in front, 5-nerved. Upper involucral glume oblong-ovate, as long as 

 spikelet, minutely cuspidate, 9- (11-) nerved. Lower floral glume similar, with 

 delicate, oblong, margined pale. Upper narrow- ellipsoid, acute, very smooth 

 and polished as is its pale. 



Locality : Gujarat : Ahmedabad and elsewhere in shady wet places in the 

 monsoon (Saxton & Sedgwick). 



Distribution : India, Burma, Malacca, Ceylon. 



*5. Panicum miliaceum, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753), 58; Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.— Arab, 

 civ; Host. Gram. Austr. ii, 16, t. 20 ; Kunth Enum. i, 104, Suppl. 81; Trin. 

 Pan. Gen. 194, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 221 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl Germ, vii, t. 82 ; Steud. 

 Syn. PL Glum, i, 77 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 5, Field and Gard. Crops t. 23, 

 Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 9 ; Hook f . F.B.I, vii, 45 ; Watt. Diet. Econ. Prod. Ind. 

 vi, 12 ; Cke. ii, 939 ; Stapf in Prain Fl. Trop. Afr. ix, 696. — P. asperrimum, 

 Fisch. Cat. Hort. Govenk. ex Jacq. Eclog. Gram. 46, t. 31 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 

 199.— P. Milium, Pers. Syn i. 83. — Milium esculentum, Mcench Meth. 203.— 

 M. Panicum, Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. viii, no. 1. 



Vern. Names: Common Millet; cheno (Guj.) ; vari (Decc.) ; gajro 

 (Panch Mahals); sava (Mar.); chinee (Sind). 



Description : A tufted annual, - 6— 1*2 m. high. Stems erect or geniculately 

 ascending, terete, stout or slender, 4-5-noded, simple or sparingly branched, 

 more or less softly hirsute below the nodes, the uppermost internode usually 

 quite glabrous. Leaf-blades linear from an equally wide or slightly contracted 

 and rounded base, long-tapering to a slender point, 15 to over 30 cm. by 6-20 

 mm., flat, flexuous, usually glabrous except for the often ciliate lower margins 

 and hispidulous dorsal midrib, rarely sparsely hairy all over, hairs long and 

 fine, midrib somewhat stout and prominent below in large leaves, primary 

 lateral nerves 3-6 on each side, very slender. Sheaths terete, somewhat loose 

 or the upper tight, closely striate, spreadingly hirsute with tubercle- based hairs, 

 pubescent or loosely bearded at the nodes, longer or slightly shorter than the 

 internodes. Ligule a narrow ciliate rim. Panicles contracted and rather dense 

 or open, narrowly oblong, nodding, often with their base permanently enclos- 

 ed in the uppermost sheath or only shortly exserted, up to 30 cm. long in sub- 

 spontaneous specimens usually scantier, looser and at length more open, 

 divided up to the fourth or in cultivated specimens the fifth degree, all the 

 divisions filiform, angular and scabrid ; primary axis slender or somewhat 

 stout below, subterete, striate or grooved and smooth towards the base ; pri- 

 mary branches more or less approximate below, more distant upwards, often 

 much divided from low down ; branchlets relatively long, the lower divided 

 again in the same manner or like the remainder from much higher up with 

 spikelets in small loose racemes of 2 (rarely 3) towards the summit ; pedicels 

 hardly thickened upwards, with truncate tips, the lateral from less than 2-6 mm. 

 long. Spikelets ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, apiculate-acuminate, turgid, 

 4*5-5 mm. long, glabrous, green or brownish green. Involucral glumes per- 

 sistent, unequal, strongly and prominently nerved ; lower broad-ovate, acute, 



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