28 cLXiiii. GBAMiNBiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



II. Branchlets of panicle often produced leyond the termini spikeht into 

 a rigid awn-like bristle. 



Sect. YII. Ptychophyllum. SpileeUts solitary, sessile or pediceUed on 

 the slender branches o£ a decompound open panicle. Leaves plicate, (.bee 

 also Setaria Forbesiana.) (8p. 48, 49.) 



B. Spikelets strongly laterally compressed. 



Sect. VIII. aiBBOsa;. Spikelets very minute, panicled ; gl. IV semi- 

 lunar. Perennial very slender grasses. (Sp. 50-54.) 



Sect. IX. PsEUDECHiNOL^NA. SpUcelets rather large, distant, snbsessile 

 on a slender simple or sparingly divided rachis, often glandular. (Sp. 55.) 



Sect. I. PaspaloidEjE. (See p. 27.) 



1. P. Isachne, Both Nov. Sp. 54; spikes many longer than the 

 internodes, spikelets ^^ in. subereot oblong acute villous, gl. I minute, II 

 and III equal faintly 3-nerved, II = IV, III paleate empty, IV oblong 

 rounded at both ends quite smooth. Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 458 ; Schult. 

 Mant. ii. 252 ; Kunih Euum. PI. i. 97 ; Stevd. Syn. Oram. 57. P. ernci- 

 forme, Sibth. Fl. Grsec. i. t. 59; SihtK & 8m. Prodr. Fl. Orseo. i. 40.; 

 Roem. &Soh. I. c. 426 ; Sunth, I. c. 78 ; Thw. JEnum. PL Zeyl. 859 ; Trim. Cat. 

 Oeyl. PI. 104; DutUe Grass. N.W. Tnd. a, Indig.Fodd. Grass, t. 43, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 6 ; Baker Fl. Maurit. 434 ; Parlat. Fl. Ital. i 119 ; Boisx. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 437. P. Koenigii, Herb. Wight ex Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 30. 

 P. cancasicnm, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Fetersb. Ser. 6 (1835) iii. 237, Sp. 

 Gram. Ic. t. 262, Pamic. Gen. 149 : Steud I. c. P. Orus Galli, Roxh. ex 

 Wight Cat. n. 1616 (non Fl. Ind.) P. pubiuode, Hodhst. ex A. RicJi. Tent. 

 Fl. Abyss, ii. 363 ; Steud. I. c. 57. P. Wightianum, Am. & Nees, ex Nees 

 Fl. Afr. Austr. 30. P. Wightii, Nees I.e. 29; Trin. Pan. Gen. 148; 

 Steud. I. c. 58. Brachiaria eruciformis, Griseh. in L^deh Fl. Ross. iv. 469. 

 Echinoohloa eruciformis, Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 29 ; G. Koch, in 

 lAnnsea, xxi. (1848) 437.— Panicum, Wall. Gat. n. 8693. 



Plains of IirsiA ; in watery places, from Kashmir, alt.. 6000 ft., and the Panjab, 

 to Bengal, and southward to Ceylon. — Distrib. Westward to Italy and N. 

 Africa. , 



Stems 1-2 ft., slender, ascending from a decumbent base, much branched j nodes 

 often bearded. Leaves 1-2J in. by \—^ in., glaucous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 flat, glabrous or softly hairy, base rouuded ; mouth of sheath with long hairs. Spikes 

 8-12, i-1 in. long, erect or subereot; rachis narrower than the spiUelets, ciliate. 

 Spikelets subsessile, very pale; gls. membranous, I cordate ; II about | shorter than 

 IV, which is white. 



2. P. flavidum, Retz. Obs. iv. 15; spikes erect shorter than the 

 internodes, spikelets tV^iV in- divaricate gibbously globose glabrous, gl. I 

 = about ^ III suborbioular 3-nerved, II nearly = t V 7-nerved tip rounded, 

 III oblong obtuse 3-5-nerved paleate neuter, IV broadly ovate cuspidate 

 reticulately pnnotulate. Br. Prodr. 190 ; Kunth Revis. Gram. i. 211, t. 17, 

 Enum. PI. i. 78, Supph 60 ; Trim. Panic. Gen. 151 ; Nees Agrotit. 

 Bras. ii. 116; Griff. Notul. iii. 33, Ic. PL Asiat. t. 139, flg. 67; Buthie 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. 3, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. vi., Fodd. Ch-ass. N. Ind 7; 

 Wight Cat. n. 1613, & Herh. n. 3059 ; WaU. Gat. n. 8692 (excl. B, & H 



