20 CLXsni. GBAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Paspalum. 



trigonous. Spiheleis snbsessile ; gls. thin, shining. — Pale spikes and spilielets occur 

 on the same plant with the dark coloured, 



15. P. Perrottetll; Sooh.f. ; stem creeping below, spikes in a pyra- 

 midal panicle lower often whorled, rachis capillary, spikelets 3'cnV i°- 

 obloBg-lanceolate acute brown, upper of each pair long-pedioelled, gl. I 

 and II subequal many-nerved. III elliptic-lanceolate acuminate. Panicum 

 Wallichianum, Wight & Am. in Wight Gat. n. 1607, Herh. 3085 ; Steud. 

 8j/n. Oram. 41; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 358; Trim. Uat. Ceyl. PI. 104. 

 Pan. mnltibrachiatum, Hochst. ex Steud. I. c. 74. Pan. Perrottetii, Kunth, 

 JSevis. Gram. ii. 395, t. 3 ; Enum. PI. i. 96. Milium minutiflorum, Trin. 

 Panic. Gen. 33. 



TfilGHiBi HiLls, Wight, &c., alt. 6000 ft., Latoson. Cbtion, in the Central 

 Province, Thwaites. — Distbib. N. Africa. 



Very variable in heiglit, 6-24 in., much branched below. Leaves 1-6 by i-J in., 

 glabrous or ciliate ; sheaths 1-1^ in. ; ligule rounded, soarious. Panicle 2-3 in., 

 peduncle filiform. Spikes ereeto-patent, lowest J-f in., upper gradually smaller; 

 rachis trigonous. Spikelets geminate, lower sessile or pedicelled. — The pauicled 

 inflorescence is very different from that of P. pedicellare, 



BOUBTJUL SPECIES. 



p. GEiFriTHiANTTM, C. MuU. in Bot. Zeit. xxix. (1861) 325. " Foot of Khasia 

 Hills, Griffith." — There is no Indian Paspalum that at all resembles the description 

 of this, which, according to its author, is an ally of P. fluitans, Ell., and other 

 American species. There is probably an error as to the habitat and collector. 



2. ERXOCKIiOA, H. B. & E. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves flat. Spikelets secnnd on the 

 spioiform branches of a raceme or panicle, base thickened and articulate 

 on the thickened top of the short pedicel. Glumes 3, I and II snbequal, 

 membranous; III shorter, apiculate, hardened in fruit. Lodicules 

 truncate. Stamens 3, anthers linear. Styles free. Grain oblong, free 

 within the hardened glume. — Species few, tropical. 



The thickened base of the spikelet alone distinguishes jBriochloa from Paspalum. 



1. E. polystachya, S. B. Sf K. Nov. Gen. Sf Sp. i. 95, f. 31 ; spikes 

 panicled, spikelets ^ in. long erect ovoid acnte, gl. I & II silky or 

 glabrous 8-5-iierved. Zam. Encycl. t. 909 ; Kunih Enum. PI. i. 72, Suppl. 

 53 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 104 ; Duthie, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 41, Fodd. 

 Grass. N. Ind. 2. E. annulata, Eunth Sev. Gram. i. 80, Enum. i. 73; 

 Aitchis. Cat. Punjab. PL 158; Buthie Grasi. N.W. Ind. 2; Benth. Fl. 

 Bongk. 409, Fl. Austral, vii. 463. E. punctata, Harni. Prodr. Fl. Ind. 

 Dec. 5; Kunth Enum. i. 72, Suppl. 54. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 441; 

 Benth. Fl. Austral. -vii. ii&i. 'Ei.auuAshca., Miq- I.e. Suppl. QQ&. E. sucoinota, 

 Kunth I. c. i. 73. Helopus annulatus, Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. 17 ; 

 Wight Cat. n. 1605 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8750. H. laevis, Trin. ex Spreng. Neue 

 Entdeck. ii. 49, fig. 4. H. pilosus, Trin. Fund. Agroit. 104, fig. 4. H. 

 acrotrichus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 100. Paspalum punctatum, Fluegge I. c. 

 127 (Paspalus) ; Trin. 8p. Gram. In. t. 165. P. annulatum, Fluegge I. c. 

 133 (Paspalus) ; Trin. I.e. t. 133. P. succinctum, Trin. Diss. li. 19; 

 Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 156. Milium Carar & M. Languchinia, Serb. Sam. ex 

 WalL Cat. n. 8750, P G. M. polystachyum, Spreng. tSyst. i. 251. M. 

 punctatum, Linn. Amcen. Acad. v. 392, Sp. PI. 91 ; Br. Prodr. 188. M. 



