48 CLXxiii. GEAMiNBai. (J. D. Hooker.) IPanimm. 



Annual. Siem 6 in. 3 ft., tufted, erect or geniculate below, leafy chiefly near 

 the base ; nodes rarely rooting. Leaves 3-10 by i-i in., usually flat, thin, acumi- 

 nate, glabrous hairy or hirsute on both snifaces or beneath only ; ligule short, fim- 

 briate. Pamcle 4-10 in., erect, often as broad as long. Spi&elets green, yellow or 

 purplish ; gl. IV. variable in breadth, and in colouring, from pure white to greenish- 

 brown, with 3-5 darker dorsal stripes.— Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 51 has referred P. 

 trt/pheron, Sch. to -P. eurvatum, L., a very different plant, and not a native of 

 Bengal. 



35. P. humlle, Nees ex Steud. 8i/n. Oram. 84 ; dwarf, slender, leaves 

 very narrow glabrous base narrow, panicle broad effuse lax-fld., branches 

 sTibsolitary long spreading naked few-fld., branchlets capillary, spikelets 

 Ve iii- pedicelled ovate acute glabrous, gl. I = | III broadly ovate acumi- 

 nate 3-nerved, II longest ovate-lanceolate acuminate 3-nerved, III ovate 

 acute 3-5-nerved paleate neuter, IV much shorter broadly oblong obtuse 

 pale shining. Thw. Ennm. PI. Zeyl. 360 (OP. 3243) ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. Fl. 

 105; Duthie Grass. N.W Ind. 4, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 9. P. tenellum, 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 21, Ic. PI Asiat. t. 139, f. 194 {non Boxh.). 



The Panjab. Thomson ; BengaIi, Assam, Sikkim, Aeracan, and southward to 

 Ceylon. — Disteib. Borneo. 



Annual. Stem 2-24 in., erect or geniculate below, much branched and often 

 flowering from the base. Leaves 2-8 by ^-^ in., flat, base hardly cordate ; sheath 

 glabrous, or mouth sparsely hairy. Panicle 1-3 in., often as long as the whole plant, 

 very laxly and diffusely branched. Spikelets minute, pale or reddish, 



36. P. hydasplcum, Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 207; 

 dwarf, leaves linear-lanceolate hirsute base narrow, panicle effuse much 

 branched glabrous, branches erecto-patent alternate rarely opposite and 

 branchlets and pedicels filiform, spikelets -^-tV in. equalling or shorter 

 than their pedicels solitary ovate acute glabrous, gls. membranous, nerves 

 strong, I = J, III ovate acuminate 5-nerved, II and III subequal ovate 

 subacute 5-7-nerved, III paleate, IV elliptic obtuse brown shining. 

 AitcMs. Cat. Panjab. Fl. 159; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 4. P. humile, 

 Aitchis. I. c. 



The Pakjab and XTppbe Gangetio Plain; from the Kavee to the Indus. 

 Mdgewortli, &c. Central Provinces, Duthie. 



Annual. Stem 6-18 in., geniculately ascending, rather stout below, branching 

 from the very base. Leaves and sheaths clothed more or less thickly with long white 

 hairs; sheaths inflated in some states. Leaves 1-2 by i-J in., flat, soft, acute; 

 ligule a row of hairs. Pamcle 2-4 in., peduncled, erect, ovoid rachis, and branches 

 quite smooth, hardly flexuous. Spikelets pale green, except the dark brown gl. IV; 

 palea of III smaller than the gl., oblong. 



37. P. ceeslum, Nees in Hooh. Kew Journ. ii. (1860) 97 ; erect, stout, 

 hairy, leaves linear base narrow suboordate, panicle large erect subthyr- 

 siform much branched, branches snberect lower fascicled, spikelets iV-iV in. 

 subsessile except the terminal broadly ovoid turgid nerves anastomosing, 

 gl. I = i-J III ovate obtuse 5-nerved, II and III subequal ovate acute 

 7-9-nerved, palea linear, IV = II elliptic-ovate obtuse pale smooth shining. 

 P. reticulatum, Thw. ex Trimen Gat. Geyl. PI. 105 (non GrweS.).— Panicum, 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8744. ^ k j -^ 



Bengal, in the Jheels, J. D. H. & T. T. Cachae, ZeeKare. Maiacca, Oriffith. 

 NicOBAK ISLDS., £Mr«. Cetlon ; Pisdoon Carl, '1 hwaites (CP. 3890).— DisiiUB, 

 Borneo, N. Guinea, Philippines. 



