Panicum.'] tiisxiii. geamine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 37 



= f III obtuse 3-nerved, II ovate-lanoeolate acuminate 7-nerTed, III 5- 

 nerved neuter, palea as broad acuminate, IV broadly oblong mucronate or 

 shortly awned finely rugulose. Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 299 ; Kunth Enum. PI. 

 90 {excl. some Syns.) ; tterh. Sam. ex Wall. Oat. n. 8730 B. P. aflSne, 

 Pair. Uneycl. Buppl. iv. 273 {ex Kunth). P. grossarium, Boxb. Ic. Ined. 

 t. 798 {not Fl. Ind.). P. Helopus, Trin. (birsutum, Koen), Wight Gat. 

 n. 1620. P. lanceolatam, Merb. Heyne ex Wall. Oat. n. 8730 A. P. 

 nutans, Serb. Rotil. P. prostratum, forma major, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 

 359. P. proatratum, var. horizontale, Trim,. Oat. Oeyl. PI. 105. P. 

 repens, Merb. Wight ex Wall. Cat. n. 8730 0. P. subcordatum. Herb. 

 Wight ex Wall. Oat. 8730 D. P Oplismenus prostratua, Edgew. in 

 Journ. Linn. 8oc. vi. (1862) 195. — Panicum, Wall. Oat. n. 8727 D, in part, 

 8730. 



Bbngal ; common. The Concan and South Deccan, Bottler, &c. Getlos, 

 Thwaites (O.P. 3236). 



Stem 2-3 ft., slender, prostrate and widely straggling below ; lower internodes 

 long ; nodes rooting, tomentose. Leaves 3-5 by J-IJ in., finely acuminate, flat, 

 margins crispedly wrinkled below, or to beyond the middle j sheath with ciliate 

 margins ; ligule a few hairs. Spikes 3-6, suberect or spreading, rather distant ; 

 angles of rachis scabernlous. Spikelets solitary or geminate, suberect, very acu- 

 minate. — It is impossible to recognize this species from Retz's description, but the 

 name attached to three different specimens in Kottler's Herbarium leaves little 

 doubt as to his plant. Roxburgh describes setigerum as having the stem almost 

 woody towards the base, which is hardly the ease in the specimens I have seen. 

 Edgeworth cites P. setigerum, Roxb., for his Oplismenns prostratus, but it may well 

 be doubted if he knew Roxburgh's plant. 



Var. tumentosum, leaves 6-7 in., margins and sheaths with very long hairs, spike- 

 lets larger ^ in. long tomentose, awn longer. 



14. P. distachyuin, Linn. Mant. i. 138 ; slender, quite glabrous, or 

 panicle sparsely hairy, leaves linear or lanceolate base rounded, spikes 2-4 

 distant spreading, spikelets ^-^ in. solitary subsessile 1-2-aeriate ellipsoid 

 glabrous, gl. I=in 5-7-nerved, 11 ovate acute 7-nerved, III 5-nerved, 

 IV ellipsoid obscurely rugnlose top rounded. Retz. Obs. iii. 17 ; Lamik. III. 

 t. 43, f. 2 ; Kunth Enum. PI. 91 ; Steud. Bi/n. Gram. 41 ; Wight Oat. 

 n.l612; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 359; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PZ. 104; Aitchis. 

 Gat. Panjab. PL 169; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 8, Indig. Fodd. Grass. 

 t. 42, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 6 ; Benth. Fl. AmtraL vii. 478. P. distachyon 

 & marginatum, Herb. Madr. ex Wall. Gat. n. 8732 A. B. P. dimidiatum, 

 Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8732 D. P. subquadriparum, Trin. Gram. Panic. 

 145, 8p- Gram. Ic. 1. 186 ; Kunth L c. 80 ; Steud. I. <:. 60. P. repens. Herb. 

 Roxb. ex Wall. I. c. 8731 A. Digitaria distachya, Pers. Syn.i. 85.— Panicum, 

 WaU. Oat. n. 8731, 8732. 



Plains of India, from the Panjab to Upper Assam and Burma, and southward 

 to Malacca and Cetxon. Gbeat Cooos Isld. (Ind. Ocean), P/am.— Distbib. 

 China, Malaya, Australia. . , • 



Stems 1-2 ft., branched, straggling and creeping below. Leaves 2-6 by i-i in., 

 flat, margins of sheath ciliate or not, mouth hairy. Spikes 1-24 "n-, rarely more 

 than 4, erect, at length spreading ; rachis slender, glabrous. Spikelets variable in 

 size, pale green; gl. I with overlapping margins below; II paleate or not, palea if 

 present narrow, neuter. 



Var. Irevifolium, Wight & Am. in Wight Cat. n. 1612 a; leaves J-1 in., ovate- 

 lanceolate, spikes shorter, rachis broader, spikelets 2-3eriate. — Drier places. 



