30 CLXxiii. GBAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panieum. 



has never till now been recognized, nor conld it have been from Barman's description 

 only. Under these circumstances, and taking into consideration the facts, that Retz 

 described two different plants under the name of fluitans, and that functalmm has 

 been applied to no other species, 1 have adopted the latter. 



4. P. paspaloides, Pers. 8,yn. i. 81 (paspalodea) ; spikes erect 

 longer than the internodes, spikelets iS-iV ™- erecto-patent snbglobose 

 glabrous, gl. I very short suborbicular retase, II nearly = IV strongly 

 5-uerved tip rounded, III broadly ovate acute 5-nerved paleate neuter, IV" 

 oblong subacute nearly smooth. Kimth Plnwm. PI. i. 77 ; Trin. Pan. Gen. 

 153. Wall. Oat. 8691 (in part) ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 60 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 

 436. P. affine, Nees Agrost. Bras. 113. P. appressum, Boell in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. ii. II 184. P. beck manniae forme, Mikan ex Trin. in Spreng. Neue 

 Entdeck. ii. 83 ; Spreng. Syst. i. 309. P brizaeforme, Presl Rel. Rsenk. 

 302 ; Steud. I. c. 60. P. brizoides, Lamk. III. i. 170 {not Trin. or Jacq). P. 

 carnosura, Salizm. ex Steud. I.e. P. fluitans, Betz. Obs. v. 18; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 455. P. numidianum, Sieb. ex Schult. Mant. ii. 267 

 (not Lamk.). P. truncatum, Trin. Diss. ii. 130, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 168 

 (not t. 172). Paspalum adprebsum, Pers. Syn. i. 85 ; Rich, ex Lamk, I. c. 

 176. Digitaria affinis, Eoem. and Sch. Syst. ii. 470. 



KuMAON, Strachey Sj" Winteriottom, alt. 5000 ft. Upper Gangetic Plain ; 

 Delhi, Olarke. Bundelkund, Buthie. Scind, the CoNCAif, Malabae and 

 Tbanqhebae, HeyTie, Ac. Cexlon, Walker, &c. — Disteib. Affghanistan, Arabia, 

 Afric. and Amer. trop. 



Perennial, stem glabrous ; prostrate, usually floating below and rooting at the 

 nodes. Leaves spreading, linear, acuminate acute or obtuse, lower sheaths dilated. 

 Spikes ^-1 in., appressed to the narrow, compressed, setulose rachis. Spikelets 

 subsessile, turgid. Glumes membranous. — Habit of P. punctatum, which it closely 

 resembles, but differs in the ra<'his of the spikes not produced at the tip with a few 

 imperfect terminal spikelets, in the size of gl. II, in paleate III, and smooth IV. — 

 P. brizoides, Lamk., is the earliest name, but it has been bo promiscuously applied 

 that it is better abandoned. 



Sect. II. EcHiNOCHLOA. (See p. 27.) 



5. P. Crus-g-alli, Linn. Sp. PL 56 ; stem erect, leaves linear flat 

 glabrous or scabernlous, raceme contracted or pyramidal, spikes many 



paleate male or neuter awned, awn short or long rigid scabrid, IV ovoid 

 obtuse or cuspidate and palea coriaceous shining white. Fl. Ban. t. 852, 

 & t. 1564; Sost Gram. Austr. ii. 15, t. 19; Encycl. Bot. t. 276; Fnapp 

 Gram. Britt. t. xi. ; JReichb. Ic. Fl. Germ,, t. 29; Trin. Sp. Gram. le. 

 t. 161, 162 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8687 (excl. I.) ; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 359 

 (excl. Syn. colonum) ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 104; Buihie Grass. N.W. Ind. 3, 

 Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 5, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 4 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 

 464 ; Benth. FL 3ongh. 411, Fl. Austral, vii. 479 ; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 435 ; 

 Franch. Sf_ Sav. En. PL Jap. ii. 160 ; Griseh. Fl. , Brit. W. Ind. 546. P. 

 Burmanni, Bieb. FL Taur. Cauc. iii. 57, ex Link. Hart. Berol. i. 204. P. 

 corvipes, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. i. 141. P. digitatum, Gilib. Exercit. 517. 

 P. dubium, Sieb. ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II, ii. 256, Syn. Gram. 46. P. echina- 

 tum, Willd. Enum,. Hart. Berol. 1032 ; Trim. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 162 ; Jacq. 

 Eelog. Gram. ii. 28, t. 20. P. hirtellum, Walt. FL Garol. 72. p'. hirti- 



