Panieum.] CLXXlii. grjimine^. (J: D; Htot)fcer.) 47 



longer than the spikelets, gl. I =: ^ III or less broader than long 3-5- 

 nerved tip obtuse or rounded, II ovate acuminate Unnerved, III as 

 long as II 9-uerved paleate neuter, IV oblong obtuse apioulate. 

 Nees Agrost. Bra». 199 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 100 ; Stekd. 8yn. Gram. 

 83 ; Thwaites Emm. PI. Zeyl. 360 ; Trim. Gat, XJ^I- PI- 106 ; AitcUs. Cat. 

 Panjab. PL 161 ; Duifiie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6, Fifild & Gard. Crops, i. t. 23, 

 I'odd. Grass. N. Ind. 10 {in note). P. Chintaman, iS^er'b.'Scim: ex Wall. Cat. 

 8712 D. P. glabrum, Herb. Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8712 C (in part). P. 

 miliare, var. Meneri, Herb. Madr. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8712f B. P. miliare, 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8712 A {in part) B (in part) D. P. mucronatum. Wall. 

 Cat. n. 8717 {inpar't). P. ramosum, Koen. ex Herb. Banks. P. Eoyleanum, 

 Nees ex Dulhie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6. P. virgatum, Boxb. mss. tx Steud. 

 Norn. Ed. II ii. 265.— laaohne, Walt Oa«. '8659 B {in part). 



Hotter parts of India, ascending to 4000 it.; BtriiMA^ MalAooX and Cetlow. 



Annual. Slem 1-2 ft. , rather slender, simple or branched, usually leafy up to 

 the panicle. Leaves 3-12 by i— s in.^ flat, acute or acuminate, usually glabrous ; 

 sheaths glabrous or hirsute, mouth with a few hairs 5 ligule a narrow row of 

 hairs. Faniele 2-8 in. j lower branches long; pedicels sometimes ^ in. long. 

 Spikelets rather flattened, dorsall^ gre!en or purplish ; gl. I variable, membranous, 

 white, margins overlapping at the base, nerves 3-3 anastomo-iing ; II and III 

 herbaceous, palea of III as lotfg' Ws the gl. ; IV Shining — Jfees (Agrost. Bras.) 

 describes gl. II a^ 7-nerved probably by error. Diseased states occur with gl. IV ' 

 enlarged exserted Battened. Trihfes describes the spitelets as elliptic and mucro- 

 nate^ and the pnliiele as contracted below and llax abovS, but this latter is a matter 

 of development. Trinius gives as a character of P. psUopodium glumes open, which 

 is a conspicuous on'e in F. tryphefoit, but I do not recognize it In this. He further 

 s>iys that he has seen this species in Herb. Lindley under the nanies of P. ramosum, 

 Koen. and P. virgatum, Roxb. I have in vain tried to verify this in Lindley's Herb., 

 and conclude that for Herb. Lindley Herb. Mus. Brit, is intended. Duthie, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. lO (m note) says that he is unable to distinguish P. psilopoimm from 

 P. miliare. Dr. Stapf, who has carefully reviewed a multitude of specimens of 

 P. miliare and psUopodium, is dispose4 to think them separable, though the former 

 is probably a cult, form of the lattei^. The true ^silo^^bUimm he thinks has nearly 

 always glabrous leaves, smaller sipikelets and a shorter gl. I. 



\' ar. coloratum; panicle violet or purple. — Simla and Garwhal', tp to 6000 ft., 

 .Mt. Abu, DaiAte ; Shan Hills, Burma, OoWe<«. 



34. P. trypli'eron, ScHuft. Maut. ii. 244-; leaves a&rrow, panicle 

 effuse, branches long stiff filiform divaricate scaberuloua, spikelets -ro-i 

 in. often geminate, pedicels cafiillary, gls. divergent Btr6ngly nerved I, II 

 and III broadly ovate, 1=3 HI or longer acuminate 5-nerved, II and III 

 subequal recurved subcuspidate 9-nerVed, III paleate neuter, IV broadly 

 oblong obtuse shining often 5-nerved. P. coloratum, /3 hirsutum, Nees in 

 Herb. LindL {ex 8ieud.). P. confine, Hoehst. in Sehimp. PI. Abyss, n. 

 1230 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Ab>yis. ii. 373 '; StevA. 8yh. Gra^th. 73. P. jumento- 

 rnra, A. Rich. I. c. 373 {non Firs.). P. miliare. Wall. Gat n. 8712 A {in part) 

 E. P. miliare, j3 simplex, Herh.Poyle. P. mucronatum, ^eijnein Wall. Gat. 

 n. 8717 (in part). PP. notatum, ButTiie Grass. N.W. Ind. 6. P. Neesianum, 

 Wight $-Am. 'ex Steud. I. c. ^4. P. porphyrrhizos, SUu^. I. c. P. rigidum. 

 Herb. Heyne ex Wall. Cat n. 8714 A {in part). P. Eox'btirghii, Sprenff. 

 • 8i/st.'i. 320 ; Euiith-'Enum. PI. i. 126 ; Stetid. I. c. 98. P. tenellum, Roxb.Fl. 

 Ind. i. 306; Duthie I.e. 7.— Panieum, Wall. Cat. n. 8713, 8714 A {in part). 



The Panjab and Ganoetic Plain to Chittaoons and sbhfchwiird to Madkas. 

 KcMAOB, up to 5000 ft. — DiSTEiB. China, Borneo, Afr. trop. 



