Paniewm.'] OLXxiir. GEAMiNHiE. (J, D. Hooker.) 89 



18. P. latlfollum, Linn. 8p. PI. 58; stem prostrate and rooting 

 below, leaves lanceolate acuminate base ronaded or cordate, panicle lax, 

 branches distant stout, rachis scaberulous, spibelets large '^— f in. very 

 distant seeund solitary or in pairs, glumes coriaceous 5-nerved, tips 

 thickened, 1 = ^ II or longey, II and III subequal, III broadest triandrous, 

 palea narrow, IV ovoid acuminate qnite smooth. Willd. 8p. PI. i. 350 ; 

 Kunth Enum. PI. i. 117; S. B. & K. Nov. Gen. 8s, Sp. i'.' 100. P. Balbi- 

 sianum, Schult. Mant. ii, 254 ; StQud. Syn. Qram. 76. P. grandifiorum, 

 Trin. ex Nees Agrost. Bras, 154. P. dryzoides. '8w. Prodr. 23, PL Ind. Occ. 

 i. 161 ; Kunth I.e. 129: Nees Agrost. Bfots- "^hAii 8te%d'. I.e. 80; Arduin. 

 Animadv. ii. t. 5; Griseh. Fl. Bnf- T^. Ifi-d. 547. P. Pseudo-oryzoides, 

 8teud. I. c. 75. P. Ridleyi, Saok.'in Trans. Linn. 8oe. Ser. II. Biot. iii. 401 

 (name). P. zizanioides, S. B. K. I. e. ; Steud- I. c, '75.— I^unicutn, Griff. 

 Notul. iii. 31, n. V7.—Wall. Gat. n. ^706.— Gram. Virgin. &c. Moris. Sist. 

 PI. iii. 196, t. 8, f. i—Sloane''Bist. Jam. i, 114, t. 71, f. 3, ' ■ ' ' • 



Bengai, Silhbt, Dachab, Buema, and the Mala? Penins.— Dj^teib, Eastern 

 trop. Asia and America. ' ' ' . 



Stem 6-24 in., rather stout, e^ensirely creeping, glabrous, or nodes tamentose. 

 Leaves 1-6 by i^ in., subdistiohous, flat, glabrous; sheaths 'smoot^j ligolri short, 

 ciliate. Pawiele 1-6 in., erect, contracted; branches simple or sparingly divided, 

 having short 3-fld.'branchIets at the base; rachis stiff, angular. Spikelets targid, 

 very obscnrely jointed on the sl|ort stiff pedicels, pale gyeen j gls. all broadly ovate, 

 their thickened tips laterally compressed, latern} nerves on each ^ide close together ; 

 III empty or imperfectly triaudroaEj, — The compressed tbic)(ened ti'p^ of the glumes 

 are vi'iy characteristic. ' ' 



Var. majus ; stem stout 4-6 ft., internodes 4-6 in, rigid, codes tomentose, leaves 

 f in. broad, margin^ thickened, base narrowed, panicle'^neany 12 in. long,— Malay 

 Peninsula, at Go^ipg, King'/s Collector. 



Sect. IV. Ht]^ena,chnb, ,(See p. 27.) 



19. P. myurus, B[. B. 4 ^. Nov. Gen. & 8p. i. 98 (ei^d. Syn. Lamh.) ; 

 stem tall stoiit spongy below, Jeaves long 'flat base fiordite, paiiicle narrow 

 very compound often interrupted, branches closely appressed, spikeleta 

 ^j in. erect' iiarrowly lanceolate, gl, I .== 3 III, II 3-nerved, III much 

 longer than II 3-5-nerved, IV small thin lanceolate. Kunth Bevis. Gram,, i. 

 33, Enurrt. PI. i. 86, Sttppl.ab; Thw. En.um.Pl. Zeyl.mi; Trim. Oat. 

 Geyt. PI. 104; ButUe ' Podd. Grass. N. Ind.' 10 {excL Syn.); Benth. Fl. 

 A-ustral. vii. 480 (e^cZ. Syri. interru]^tiA/t^) — -Excl: in- all Syn. Laink. BM,dge, 

 Richard, Trin. P. aoutiglumnm, Steud. 8y>^- Chranl. 66. P. auritum, Has-ik. 

 PI. Bar. Jav. 22 (non Prefl.). P. cyniosuroides, Herh. Bottl. P. Hasskarlii, 

 tSteud. in Zoll. Syst. Verz.'bi, Syn. Gram. 70; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 456. 

 P. mynrum, Mey,e!f !FI. Esseg. 50 {epcl. Syn. Lamh Sf Budc/e). P. manga- 

 loricum, Steiid. l^c. 78! P. serratulum. Herb. Ham. in Wall. Gat. u. 8699. 

 P. aerrulatum, Bomb. Fl.Ind. i. 307 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 126. Hymenachne 

 myuros, Beauv. Affrost. 49, t. 10, f. 8 (excl. Syn. Lam.) ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 

 275; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 553 {exd. Syn.) ; Steud. I.e. Agrostis alope- 

 curoides, Tahl. mss., & A. monoatachys. Pair. Encycl. Suppl. i. 256, ex 

 Kunth I. c— Panicum, Wall. Gat. n. 8699. 



Marshes in Upper and Lower Bbnoai, Assam, Silhbt, the Deooait, Malayan 

 Peninsoia and Ceylon. — Uistbib. Trop. As. Austral, and Amer. 



Stem erect, 2-6 ft., leafy, rooting at the nodes of the prostrate base, which is 

 often as thick as a swan's quill. Leaves 12-18 by f-1 in., tapering from a broiid 

 cordate base to a fine point, margin serrulate; sheath smooth, glabrous ; ligule very 



