42 OLXsiii. GBAMiNBJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum, 



Var. elatwm j glabrous, stem 3-4 ft. stout erect, leaves 6-10 in. by i in., spike 

 3-6 in. rather stout, spikelets ^ in. erect oblong-ovate acute violet blue rarely 

 greenish.— Khasia hills, in wet places alt. 5-6000 ft, The nearest form to P. 

 interruptum. 



Var. pilosii/m ; like var. ela,tvM, but not so tall, more flaccid, leaves Lirsute 

 with spreading hairs. — Khasia hills, alt. 4i-t5000 ft. 



Var. villosum ; softly silkily villous, stem 1-2 ft., -leaves quite erect, spike 2-6 in., 

 spikelets i-J in. grieen or pnrplisji ovate-oblong glabrous. ^rPanlcum, No. 39, Herb. 

 Ind. Or. Rook. f. }■ T.— Ehasia hills, alt. 5^6000 ft. 



Var. graeile ; stem 1-2 ft. very slender simple or branched, leaves iS by i-J 

 in. flaccid, spikes 2-4, in. pale, spikelets ^ in. ovoid Bu^,acnte glabrous spreading. 

 — Nepal, Kumaon, Sikkim, Sac 



Var. angustam ; whole plant very slender spike of very minute loosely packed 

 spikelets -jL in. lopg. — This, the P. angitstfm, Trin., ig ^ starved form. 



Var. turgidum j stem 6-:12 in., spike short cylindric or oblong very pale often 

 proliferous, spikelets ^— ^ in. oblong turgid setulose. — Pauicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8697, 

 8698. — In wet plapes. Perhaps a diseased form. 



24. P. myostiroide^, Br. Prodr. 189 ; slender, leaves narrowj spite- 

 lets innumerable -r'B"^ i°- densely crowded in an elongate cylindric curved 

 caudiform panicle broadly obovoid or subglobose' obtuse, gl. I about 5 III 

 3-nerved, II vei;y convex and III 5-7-nerved, III oblong obtuse palea 

 minute, IV minute ovate-oblong. J^unth Enum. PI. i. 77; Steud. Syn. 

 Chram. 56 ; JBenih. Fl. AuBfral. vii. 480 {excl. syn. angustv/m,) ; IHifhie Fodd. 

 Ohrass.. ISf. IriL 11. P. arcuatum, Wiglit Cat, n. 1639 {non Br.). P. 

 angustu'm, Wight I.e. 1642 {non Trin.); WigM Gat. n. 1B4. P, curva- 

 tum, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 286 (non Linn.) ; Kunth I. 0. 87 {excl. syn.}. P. 

 indicuui, Serb. Wight n.' 8042 ; Thw. Enum. Bl Zeyl. 361 (in part). P. 

 interruptum, v'qr. contigua. Bteud. in PI. Ind. Qr. Soher^. n. 1606 {non 

 Willd.). P. multiflorum, Boiei. Ic. P.ict. ined. t. 782. P. nervosum, Serb. 

 Beyne, ex Wall. Oat. n. 8696 A.— Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8696 A, O.'F. 

 (in pari) G.— ^porobolns. Wall. Cat. n. 3766 ex Wight. Cat. n. 1642; 



Throughout the hotter parts of India from Nepal eastward to Assam and 

 BuBMA, and soulhyvai^d to. the Maiat Pbhinsula and Ceylon.— I^isteib.' Cjjiua, 

 Austral. Afric. tfop. ' , , . .. 



Slem erector shortly creeping. Leaves rarely \ in. broad. Spiciform or rather 

 cnudiform panicle sometimes 8 inches long, tapering' from base to tip, with rarely a 

 short branch abruptly breaking out from near the base. Spikelets longer tShaq their 

 pedicels, green or purplish'. — This is unquestionably P. mposuroides, Br., and Rox- 

 burgh's P. curvatum, but I hesitate to cite all the authors who have taken up these 

 names, in some cases probably fronf forma of P. indicum. In its ordinary state it is 

 a very distinct grass, from its elegant tail-like inflorescence and minute obtuse spike- 

 lets, but I find it impossible to separate specimens with short spikes from states of 

 P. mdipum. P. angustum, Trin., is spcb a state, and is referrpd to mi/oswrojcjes by 

 Bentham, but its larger spikelets are ratber those of true mdipam. 



25. ^. curvatum, lAnn. Syst. Nc^t. xii. !r30 ; stem very slender, and 

 narrow leaves ilaceid, spikelets in a lax panicle with capillary flejuous 

 branches, spikelets gibboualy ovoid-oblong decprved, nervbsi Very strong, 

 gl. I minute, II oymbiform or almost galeate. III shorter |ljan 11 ovate, 

 palea l;iuear-nblonff, IV minute. Wight Cat', n. 1636 ; Thw. Unufn. PI- 

 Zeyl. 860 ; Trim. Cat. Oeyl. PI. 105 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 207, % Afr. Austr. 

 60. P. costulatum, Bojer, mss. P. coryophoruih, Kunth Reois. Gram. 93, 

 t. 107; Enum. PI. 88; Suppl. 66.— Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8745.' '" 



