Panicum.'] clxxiii. geaminea (J. D. Hooker.) 57 



hispidnlous, gl. I = about J- III obtuse or acute 3-nerved, III 5-nerved. 

 Xunth Enum. PI. i. 116 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 206 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. i. 305 ; 

 Thw. UnMm. PI. Zeyl. 359 (in part) ; Trim. Cat. Oeyl. PI. 205. P. difforme. 

 Both Nov. Sp. 52. P. gibbum, Steud. I. c. 87. P. radioans, Biihse in Miq. 

 PI. Jungh. 375 ; Mig. Fl. Ind. Pat. iii. 453 (non Retz). P. repens and 

 Burmanni, Heyne ex Merh. Wight. Aira Tepena, Hh. Seyne ex Walt. Gat. 

 n. 8743 A.— Panicum, Wall. Cat. 8743 A. C. 



LowEB Bengal, Wallich. The Deooan Pekinsttla, Heyne, &c. Obtlon, 

 WalTcer, &c., Thwaites (C.P. n. 888). — Disibib. Java. 



Perennial. Stem as thick as packthread, decumbent branching and interlaced 

 below ; branches erect. Leaves linear-lanceolate, frlabrons or laxly hairy ; sheath 

 glabrous or margin ciliate ; ligule rounded. Paniole 1-1^ in., rachis and short 

 snberect branches glabrous ; gl. I-III pale brown ; tip of IV naked or bearded. 



51. P. pillpes; Nees Sf Am. ex Base in Miq. PI. Jungh. iii. 376 ; tall, 

 leares 2-6 in., panicle contracted, branches short with often slender hairs 

 on the pedicels, spikelets -^ in. very shortly pedicelled glabrous, gl. I =^ 

 about ^ III obtuse 3-nerved, III 5-nerved. Wight Gat. n. 2343; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 453; Trim,. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 105. P. hermaphroditum, 

 Bteud. Syn. Gram. 67; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 485. P. oxyphyllun-, 

 Hochst. ex Steud. I. c. 65. .'' P. carinatum, Presl Bel. Haenh. i. 309 (ear 

 Hack, in Engl. Bat. Jahrb. vi. (1885) 235).— Panicum, Wall. Cat. n. 8743 

 B. D. 



SiiKiM Teeai, Clarice. Khasia Hiils, alt. 0-2500 ft., common. Burma, 

 Centbal Pbovinces, NriGHiEi Hills, alt. 4000 ft., the Malay Pbninsttla, 

 NiGOBAB IsLDS. and Ceylon (C.P. 100, 709, 891). — Disieib. Tonkin, Malaya, 

 Australia, Pacific Islds., Mascarene Islds. and Madagascar. 



Perennial. Stem 1-2 ft., geniculately ascending from a slender creeping branching 

 base, lower nodes rooting, upper snbpubescent. Leaves ^-1^ in. diam., glabrous or 

 sparsely hairy above, puberuloua beneath, finely acuminate, base narrow ; sheatli 

 glabrous or ciliate, mouth hairy ; ligule rounded. Panicle 3-5 in. ; branches rather 

 remote, erect or spreading with short fastigiate branohlets ; spikelets brown ; gl. IV 

 white, its palea narrow, patent, hard. — The Madagascar and Seychelle Islds. P. mul- 

 tinode, Lamk, is very closely allied, if not the same, in which case that name takes 

 priority. In Nicobar specimens the spikelets are sparsely pubescent. Thwaites 

 regarded pilipes as a form of P. irigonum. 



** Pedicels capillary, much longer than the spikelets. 



52. P. patens, Linn. Sp. PI. 86 ; stem creeping and rooting below, 

 leaves ovate to linear-lanceolate glabrous or ciliated below with tubercle- 

 based hairs, panicle contracted or effuse, rachis branches and pedicels 

 capillary, gl. I = j-f III ovate obtuse 3-nerved, II and III glabrous or 

 with ciliate tips. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 10, f. 2 ; Spreng. Syst. i. 322 (excl. syn. 

 multinode) ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 126 (excl. syn. Boxb.). P. accrescens, 

 Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 88, 4" corrigend. vol. iii. ; Kunth Z.c. 116. P. obliquum. 

 Both Nov. Sp. 51 ; Kunth I. c. 103; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 452. P. radi- 

 cans, iJefo. Ohs. iv. 18; ? Trin. Pan. Gen. 218; Nees Agrost. Bras. 206; 

 Kunth I.e. 216; Wight Cat, n. 2344. P. trigonum, in part, Thw. Knum. 

 PI. Zeyl. 359. P. velntinum, Willd. Serb, ex Spreng. I. c. — Panicum, Wall. 

 Gat. n. 8738, 8740. 



Throughout India, from the Lower Himalaya in Garwhal to Sikkim, and the 

 Khasta Hills, asceriding to 3000 ft., southward to the Malayan Peninsula and 

 Ceylon. — Distbib. E. tropical Asia and the Malay and Pacific Islds. 



Stem 1-3 ft., branched below, leafy ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-6 by J-| in., 



