54 CLXxiii. GBAMiNEa;. (J. D. Hooker.) [Panicum. 



Assam ; Goalpara, Samilton. Silhet, Caohae, the Khasia and Naoa Hilm, 

 BiTid thp Ttteels 



Perennial. Gregarious in water (ClarTce). Habit of P. moniawum, but much 

 more slender, with narrower leaves 4-8 by f4 iH;. a smaller panicle, with shorter 

 pedicels and much smaller spikelets. &l. II fugacious. 



Var. ppera4eM.se; stem robust nearly as stout as a gooae-quill-below, leaves ij m. 

 broad, spikelets broader, nerves stronger. Perak, King's Collector (n. 2546).— 

 Probably a different species. 



46. P. Ichaslanum, Munro mss.; tall, leaves linear or linear- 

 lanceolate base narrowly cordate, panicle v«ry large branches very long 

 slender smooth, pedicels long or short, spikelets subsolitary tV-,^ in. 

 ellipsoid subacute glabrous, gl. I minute much shorter than III, nerves 

 or 3 obscure, II and III subequal 5-nerved, III epaleate, IV elliptic-oblong 

 subacute smooth. 



E. Nepal and Sikkim, alt. 4-7000 ft., J. B. M., Clarice. Khasia Hills, in 

 marshes, alt. 4-6000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Perennial. Stem prostrate and creeping below, then erect, 3-6 ft. Leaves 6-12 

 by |-li in., thin, glabrous hairy or subscabrid, many-nerved, base usually contracted 

 with incurved auricles, not or obscurely ciliate ; sheath smooth or hispidly hairy, 

 mouth bearded ; ligule very short, ciliate. Panicle 6-13 in., often as broad ; lower 

 branches nearly as long, solitary or fascicled, unbranched below. — Near P. montanum, 

 differing in the narrower leaf-base, very short gl. I, and in gl. II not fugacious. 

 Also near P. sarmentosum, from which the minute gl. I distinguishes it. 



** Gl. Ill paleate. 



47. P. sarmentosum^ Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 308 ; tall, branched, scandent, 

 leaves long base narrow rounded, panicle pyramidal or ovoid loosely 

 branched glabrous, rachis smooth, branches half-whorled capillary, spikelets 

 ■f K~\e ^^•> sessile or shortly pedicelled ovoid tips obtuse ciliolate, gl. 1 = ^ 

 III or more obtuse or subacute 3-5-nerved, II and III subequal orbicular 

 perves 5 broad, III palea small narrow, IV small ellipsoid subacute dorsally 

 rounded smooth. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 126; Bteud. Syn. Oram,. 98. P. 

 micrognostum & P. vacillans, St&ud. I. c. 75 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 456. 

 P. concinnum, JVees in Hooh. Kew Joum. ii. (1850) 97 ; Steud. I. c. 78 ; Miq. 

 I.e. 457. P. incomptum, Trin. Dus.ii. 200, Gram. Panic. 200, 8p. Gram. Ic. 

 t. 232; Xunth I.e. 113; Steud. I.e. 88; Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. 207; 

 Herh. Wight (Kew Bistrib. n. 6492). P. maximum. Wall. Gat. n. 8715 B. 

 P. tjicoyaense, Steud. I. c. 70. ? P. incomptum, Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 4. 

 —Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8709. 



Assam, Silhet, Caohab, and the Khasia Hills, ascending to 5000 ft., 

 Chittagong, Burma, and the Malax Peninsula. — Disteib. Malay Islds., China, 

 Tonkin. 



Perennial. Stems attaining 50 ft., often as thick as a goose-quill, solid, pubescent 

 or glabrous, with whorls of long wiry slender branching roots at the bearded nodes 

 below, whence the flowering branches issue. Leaves 12-15 by -J-li in., linear- 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, smooth or hairy on both 

 surfaces or beneath especially, many-nerved ; sheaths smooth or sparsely hairy ; 

 ligule a brush of hairs. Panicle 6-12 in., very variable, branches erect or spreading, 

 loiig or short, branchlets often creeping and entangling, straight or flexuons. Spike- 

 lets erect or spreading. — Duthie gives P. incomptum as a native of Garwhal, alt. 

 4-E;000 ft., but 1 have not seen P. sarmentosum, Roxb. from the westward of Assam, and 

 I suspect that P. montanum is the plant intended. Of P. concinnum, which is 



