Panicum.] clxxiii. graminkj). (J. D. Hooker.) S3 



branches subsolitary naked below, and long spreading few-fld. naked 

 branchlets capillary, spikelets Jj in, long-pedioelled ovate-oblong acute 

 glabrous or sparsely puberulous, gl. I = | III ovate obtuse 1-nerved, II 

 and III subequal subacute 5-uervBd, III epaleate, IV elliptic-oblong sub- 

 acute palea quite smooth. Mia. Prolus. Fl. Jap. 16iJ : Franch. St Sav. En. 

 Tl. Jap. ii. 162. 



Uppbb Assam ; Mishmi Hills, Griffith. — Distrib. China, Japan. 



Perennial. Stem 2-3 ft., erect, not or rarely branehjd ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 

 3-5 by ^-\ in., thin, flat, glabrous, as are the sheaths; ligyle a few hairs. 

 Panicle 3-4 in. long and broad, very lax, open, with few scattered brownish or 

 greenish spikelets ; branches branchlets and pedicels perfectly smooth, gl. I II <& 

 III membranous ; IV thinly coriaceous, sessile. — I find no trace of a palea in gl. Ill 

 of any specimen. No other species of this group has sparsely pubescent spikelets, 

 except var. ;8 of P. maximum. 



j3. Spikelets obtuse or subacute; 



* 01. III. epaleate. 



44. P. montanum, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 313 {excl. descr. gl. IV.) ; stem 

 tall firm, leaves long lanceolate base broad deeply cordate, panicle large 

 loose, rachis branches and pedicels very long capillary smooth, spikelets 

 T6~Tt ill- solitary oblong obtuse or subacute, gl. I = 5 III ovate 5-nerved, 

 II and III subequal obtuse 5-nerved, III epaleate. IV ovate subacute 

 smooth. Kunth Enum. Fl. 126; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 412 ; Thw. Enum. PI. 

 Zeyl. 360 ; Trim. Cat. Fl. Oeyl. 105. P. barbatulum, Wall. ms. P. cour- 

 tailense, Nees & Am. ex Wight Gat. n. 2342, Serb. 1362, 3049 ; Stevd. 8yn. 

 Ch-am. 83. P. euchroum, Steud. I. c. 98. ? P. notatum (montanum, Soxh.), 

 Wight Cat. 1362 (non Retz). P. triuapalium, Sb. Mam. ex Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8722 A.— Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8719, 8722, 8739. 



Hotter hilly parts of India, from the lower Himalaya in Garwhal, Duthie, to 

 Sikkim, Burma, the Khasia Hills, and southward to Penangand CErLON. — Disteib. 

 Malaya, China, Philippines. 



Perennial. Stem 3-4 ft. or more, smooth, hard, sparingly branched. Leaves 

 0-7 by f— li in., thin, glabrous or pilose, smooth or scaberulous beneath, striate, 

 base ciliate, midrib sometimes excentric ; sheath glabrous or pubescent, mouth hairy ; 

 ligule obscure. Panicle 8-18 by 8-10 in.; branches whorled or alternate, axils 

 sometimes glandular, lower strict and unbranehed from 1-3 in. Spikelets terete, 

 glabrous or faintly hairy ; gl. II fugacious. — I do not find gl. IV to have 3 stripes 

 as described and figured by Roxburgh, nor is it as broad as in his figure ; but that 

 the plant I have described is Bozburgh's is confirmed by a specimen so named by 

 himst'lf. P. montanum has been referred by Wight to the Sumatran P. notatum, 

 Betz (Obs, iv. IS), but that plant is described as having scabvid branches of the 

 panicle, purple spikelets, and acute glumes. The black spots at the axils of the 

 panicle seen in dried specimens of both species, are probably due to a glandular 

 secretion. Wallich's n. 8739, from Ava> has very long pedicels and broad glumes, 

 and a broader gl. IV, but the latter is narrower than in Roxburgh's figure. Duthie 

 (Grass. N.W. Ind. 6) gives Stewart as authority for this grass being found in 

 marshes near Peshawur, but I suspect that Isachne himalaica was taken for it. 



45. P. humidorum, Ham. in Wall. Gat, n. 8721; tall, slender, 

 leaves linear base narrowly cordate, panicle large loose, raohis branches 

 and (rather short) pedicels capillary smooth, spikelets ^ in. ellipsoid 

 obtuse glabrous, gU I = f III obtuse 3-nei-ved, II and III obscurely 5- 

 nerved. III epaleate» IV ovate or oblong smoothi 



