Panicum.] olxxiii. gbaminej!. (J. D. Hooker.) 31 



calyoinum, Steud. Now,. Ed. 11, ii. 257. P. hispidulum, Lamk. Encycl. Iy 

 744 {non Bel.) ; Betz Obs. v. 18 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 303 {M. Ic. Pict.);' Wall. 

 Gat. 8688 A. J Wight Cat. n. 204-i ; Sfeud. Syn. Oram. 47 ; Franch. & Sav. 

 I. c. 160. P. hispidum, Forst. Prodr. 7 ; Nees Aqrost. Bras. 257. P. horri- 

 di^m, Saltzm. ex Stead. I. c. 47. P. Hosti, Bieb. I. c. P. limosum, Pred 

 ex Nees I.e. P. longisetum, Torr. in Am. Jowrn. 8c. Ser. I iv. (1822) 58. 

 P. mirabile, Braun Bel. Sem. Sort. Garlsruhe (1846). P. muricatum, 

 Michsr. Fl. Bor. Am. i. 47. P. oryzinTim, Gmel. Syst. i. 157 ; A. Braun in 

 Ind. Sem. Sort. Berol. 1851. P. pilosum, Balz. J- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 

 98. P. sabalicolum, Nees Agrost. Bras. 258. P, scabrum, Lamh. III. i. 

 171 ; Wight Gat. n. 1648; Steud. I. c. 47. P. stagninnm, Betz. Obs. v. 17 ; 

 Host Gram. Ausir. iii. t. 51 ; Eoen. in Naturf. I. c. ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 

 295; Nees in Mart. I.e. 26; Griff. Notul. iii. 17; Wall. Gat. n. 8688; 

 Wight Gat. n. 1649. P. Walteri, Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. i. 66. Oplis- 

 menns Crus-galli, Bum. Obs. Gram. Belg. 138; Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 44, 

 Enum. PI. i. 143 ; Host I. c. ii. t. 19 ; Trin. 8p. Gram. Ic. t. 161 ; Bah. Sf 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 292. O. Ci us-pavonis, S. B. &. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. i. 

 108. O. P dubius, Kunth Eev. Gram. i. 44, Enum. i. 143. 0. limosiis, 

 Presl Bel. Ssenk. i. 321 ; Kunth Enum. i. 144. 0. longisetus, Kunth 

 Bevis. Gram. I. c. O. miirioatns, Kunth I. c. 44. O. sabalioolui', Kunth 

 Enum,. i. 145. O. scaber, Kunth Bev. Gram. i. 44. O. stagninus, Kunth 

 Bevis. I. c, Enum. I. c. ; Balz. & Gibs. I. c. ; Aitchis. Cat. Punjab PI. 161 ; 

 Miq. I. c. 464. Eohinochloa commutata, Schult. Mant. ii. 267. B. Orus corvi, 

 Beauv. Agrost. 53. E. Crus-galli, Beauv. I. c. ; T. Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. 

 Monocot. 1 1. 21 ; Beichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 29. E. ? dubia, Boem & Sch. Syst. 

 i. 479. B. hispida, Schult. I. c. E. hispidula, Nees in Boyle ill. Bot. Himal. 

 416, 420; Balz. Sf Gibs. I.e. Suppl. 98. B. stagjiina,, Beauv. I. c. Ortho- 

 pogon Crus-galU & Betzii, Spreng. Syst. i. 307. Ischseoium abbreviatum 

 & fasoioulatum, Serb. Sam. ex Wall. Gat. n. 8688. Digitaria hispidula, 

 Willd. Enum. Sort. Berol. 91. Milium Crus-galli, Moench. Meth. 202. 



Throughout India, especially in wet places and rich soils — Distbib. all warm 

 countries. 



Annual. Stem 1-3 ft., stout or slender, erect or decumbent below, simple or 

 branched. Leaves flat, up to an inch broad, glabrous or hairy ; ligule 0. Raceme 

 4-8 in., usually inclined, or drooping. Spikes sessile or subsessile, upper gradually 

 short er, erect erecto-patent or rarely deeurved. Spikelets densely packed in 3-5 rows, 

 turgid ; gl. I not awned ; II and III subequal, usually 5-nerved, awn of III some- 

 times IJ in. long ; IV from orbicular to broadly oblong. — Amongst the innumerable 

 varieties of P. Crus-galli, I find it impossible to find characters constant enough for 

 their limitation. Of exceptional states one with almost glabrous spikes is EcM- 

 vnMoa glalrescens (Munro mss.) ; it has large spikelets and cuspidate gls. It is 

 Wallich's u. 8687 B. B. C. H., and has been collected in the Western Himalaya, 

 Khasia Bills and elsewhere. Another is Ischaemum glairescens, Ham. ex Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8688 D, with the stem nearly as thick as the little finger, solitary or 2-nate 

 spikes, and spikelets with tubercle-based bristles. Thwaites CP. 900 and 3237, from 

 Cej'Ion is a third, it has very broad leaves, and the rachis of the spikes is villously 

 hairy. P. mirabile, Braun, is a remarkable plant, with 3-fld spikelets, the lower 

 fl. paleate and neuter, two upper hermaphrodite. Some forms with cuspidate, very 

 short y awned spikelets pass into P. colonvm, through var. frumentaceum, and 

 it is not unlikely that somii of the synonyms placed under P. Crus-galli should be 

 transferred to P. colonum, and vice versa. 



YsiT./rumintaceum; tall, robust, spikes thickened incurved sometimes corymbose 

 with densely crowded unawned spikelets, otherwise as F. Crus-galli. P. frumenta- 

 ceum, Sotcb. Fl. Ind. i. 304; Schult. Mant. ii. 230; Trin. Sp. Oram. Ic. t. 164; 

 Diss. ii. 132; Wall. Cat. n. 8686; Wight Cat. n. 1617 ; Duthie Orass. N.W. Ind. i. 



