Panieum,'] clxxiii. GRAMiNEa;. (J. D. Hooker.) 49 



Ananal. Stems 2-3 ft., densely tufted, erect from the root. Leaves 6-10 by J-^ 

 in., flat, soft, and sheaths more or less densely clothed with soft white spreiiding 

 hairs ; ligule a ridge of hairs. Fanicle lU-18 in. long ; branches angular, scaberulous. 

 Bpikelets solitary or geminate, red-brown. Olumes rather soft ; II deciduous ; IV 

 pale yellow or brownish, sessile, margins narrowly incurved. — Tlio Boruean and 

 Philippine specimens are more slender and less hairy than the Indian. 



ft Perennials. 



§ Glume I very small, suborbicular, white, nerveless ; (0 in P. sube- 

 glume) ; III 3-9-nerved, paleate or not. — Spikelets usually very shortly 

 pedicelled. 



36.* P. xnazlmum, Jiicj. Ic. PI. Ear. i. t. 13; Coll. i. 76; tall, 

 stout, erect, leafy, leaves long broadly linear or linear-lanceolate glabrous, 

 panicle large decompound, lower branches whorled usually hairy, pedicels 

 unequal capillary, spikelets -rg-xV i°' solitary or in pairs elliptic-oblonsr 

 acute or obtuse glabrous, gl. I = J III white 0-3-nerved, II and III sub- 

 equal 3-7-nerved, III paleate male, IV elliptic subacute transversely rugn- 

 lose. 8w. Fl. Ind. Oca. i. 170 ; Nees Agronf. Bras. 166, Fl. Afr. Austr. 36 ; 

 Trin. Oram. Panic. 221 ; Pan. Oen. 180 ; 8teud. 8yn. Oram. 72 ; Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8715 A. B {in part) D. ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 105; Aitchis. Cat. PanjcA 

 PI. 159 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 549 ; Baker Fl. Maurit. 436 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, v. 439. P. altissimum, Brouss. Mench. Sort. Monsp. (1806) 42 ; 

 Balz. & Gibs. Bomh. Fl. Suppl. 98. P. oonfusum, Trin. ex Steud. JSfom. 

 P!d. II ii. 254. P. eburneum, Trin. Pan. Oen. 180 ; Steud. 8yn. Oram. 73. 

 P. Equisetum, Nees, ex Boell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II, 206. P. fascicn- 

 latum, " PI. Carib. non 8w.," Cfriseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 549. P. gongylodes, 

 Jacq. JEclog. Gram. 30, t. 21. P. jumentorum, Pers. Syn. i. 83 ; JS. B. & K. 

 Nov. Oen. ^ Sp. i. 104; Thw. Fnum. PI. Zeyl. 361 : DatUe Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 5,Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 9. P. laeve, La/mh. III. i. 173. P. longipes, 

 Wight Sf Am. in Wight Cat. n. 1638. P. megiston, Schult. Mant. li. 248. 

 P. pamplemoussense, Steud. I. c. 71. P. polygamum, Sw. Prodr. Veg. 

 Ind. Occ. 24. P. pratipolum, Saltzm. ex Boell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. If, 

 203. P. trichocondylum, Steud. I. o. 74. P. tuberculatum, Presl Rel. 

 Eeenh. i. 307. 



Cultivated in many parts of India. — Niitive of Africa. 



Perennial ? 8-10 ft. high ; stem branching, branches erect, nodes naked or 

 bearded. Leaves 1-2 ft. by ^-1 in,, gradually narrowed from a small rounded or 

 auricled base to a long filiform point, quite smooth, nearly glabrous; sheaths 

 long, mouth villous; ligule' of long hairs. Famicle 1-2 ft., quite erect, brauches 

 erect, filiform, smooth; pedicels usually shorter than the spikelets, glabrous 

 or very sparsely pubescent, bright green, glistening, gl«. thin. — Tliis grass is 

 described both as an annual and a perennial. Trinius' description of P. eiurnewm I 

 think refers it to maximum ; it is described as from Nepal. 



Var. ;8, Boiss. I. c. ; spikelets shortly hairy, gl. Ill neuter. — Peshawur, Aitchison. 

 Affghan. — Apparently a smaller plant than typical P. maximum. 



37. P. repens, lAnn. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 87 ; stem creeping and stoloniferous 

 below, leaves distichous linear-la uceolate flat or convolute glaucous, panicle 

 usually contracted irregularly branched, branches 2-3-nate strict, spikelets 

 ^ in. sessile or shortly pedicelled ovate-lanceolate acute white, gl. I = ^ 

 111 orbicular, II and III subequal ovate acute sub-5-nerved, III paleate 

 or not male or neuter, IV ovate acute smooth. Sibth. Fl. Grsec. i. t. 61 ; 

 Nees Agrost. Bras. 171 ; Sunth Enum. PI. i. 103 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 105 ; 



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