18 CLxxiii. GRAMINEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Faspalum. 



spreading, raohis filiform, spikelets Jj-yV in elliptic-oblong silky with alemder 

 (not clavellate) crisped hairs, pedicels glabrous or nearly so, gl- \ and 

 II snbequal or I shorter or obsolete, II 5-nerved, III ovate acuminate. 

 Wall. Oat. n. 87ol, C. ; Wight Oat. n. 1603; Baher Fl.. Maurit. 431. P. 

 bifarium, Hdqew. inJourn. As. Soc. Beng. xxi. (18i)3) 157 nomen. (&e fhw. 



En. PL Jap. ii. 159. P. ohinense, Nees in Book. & Am. Bot. Beech. Toy. 

 231 ; Steud. I.e. P. filiculme, iVees ex Thw. I.e.; Wight Cat. n. 1604; 

 Trim. Oat. Geyl. PI. 104; Franch. Sf Sav. I. c. ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 1. 

 P. grannlare, Trin. in 8preng. N. Entdeck ii. 47; Kunth I.e. 50. P. 

 minutiflornm, Bteud. I. c. 17 ; Bentk I. c. P. nematodes, SchuH. Mant. ii. 

 71; Kunth I.e. 65. Panioum argyrotriohum, Anderss. in Peters Beise 

 'Mossamb. Bot. 548. Pan. lineare, /3 Pseudn Duroa, Nees in Herb. 

 Wight. Pan. longiflorum, Omel. Syst. 158; Wall. Cat. n. 8751 A. Pan. 

 parvulum, Trin. Pan. 6en. 117, in Mem. Acad. Petersh. Ser. vi. iii. II 

 (183S) 805. Pan. propinquum, Br. Prodr. 193. Pan. Ps-udo-Duroa. Nees 

 Fl. Afr. Austr. 21; Wight Cat. n. 1608. Pan. tenuiflorum, Br. I. c. ; 

 Kunth I. c. 85; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 7, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 13. 

 Digit )ria linearis, SchuU. Mant. ii. 264 [ex Miguel). D. longiflora, Pej"*. 

 ■Syn. i. 85. D. Pseudo-Buroa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 439. D. Boxburghii, 

 Spreng. Syst. i. 270. D. tenuiflora, Beauv, Agrost. 51. Milium filiforme, 

 Boxb. Fl. 'Ind. i. 314 ; Wight Cat. n 1604, a.b.o. M. radiatum , ^er-S. Eottl. 

 M. aetaceum. Herb. Koen. in Mus. Brit. M. triraoemosum, Boxb. Ic. Ined. 

 n. 315. Agrostis lenta. Ait. Sort. Kew, i. 96. A. trii-acemosa, Herb. 

 JioiBJ.— Paspalum, Wall. Cat. n. 8761, 8752 B.D.B. 



Throughout India, from Kashmir eastwards and southwards to Ceylon (C.P. 860) 

 and Malacca ; ascending the Himalaya to 6000 ft. — Distkib. Trop. and subtrop. 

 regions of the Old World. 



Annual or perennial ? Stems tufted, 6-18 in. , simple or branched below and root- 

 ing with ascending branohes,or prostrate. Leaves very various, 1-1^ in. long laneeol te 

 and divaricate, or 6-8 in. long, linear erect or spreading; sheath smooth or hairy; 

 lignle short, truncate, membranous. Spikes 1-4 in.,subdigitate or alternate, usually 

 silvery-white. Spikelets geminate, a snbsessile and pedicelled, pale green or purplish ; 

 gl. Ill pale, or dark brown. — Tlie extreme forms of this species are very dissimilar, 

 the most marked are F. longiflorum, proper (hrevifoUum, Fluegge), with often 

 prostrate stems spreading from the root or creeping and rooting from 6-12 in. with 

 short lanceolate leaves, and 2-3 divaricate spilies, and F. minutijlorum, Stead., 

 with slender erect stems, narrow linear leaves and many long erect spikes, exactly as 

 P. Moyleanum. The hiiirs on the spikelets seen under the microscope are very 

 slender and as it were crisped or wrinkled, quite unlike those of P. ternatum and 

 Royleanum. Thwaite's CP. n. 2573 is a puzz'ing plant, tall, with much longer 

 spikelets, approaching those of P. ambiguum. Though in this species and its allies 

 tlnTC is no distinct gl. at the base of II, a microscopical rudiment of one may often 

 (always?) be detected. 



12. P. Royleanum, Nees ex Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 358 ; erect or 

 shortly decumbent below, leaves usually erect, spikes 2-10 erect rachis 

 filiform, spikelets -jV-iV i°- .oblong, gl. I and II densely crisply ' white- 

 tomeutose with clavellate hairs, pedicel setulose, gl. I = f 111 or shorter or 

 obsolete, II broadly oblong subacute 5-nerved, III oblong subacute quite 

 smooth. Trim. Gat. PI. Ceyl. 158 ; Herb. Strach. Sc Winterb. Pasp. n. 2 ■ 

 Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 1. P. filiculme, Herb. Strach. & Winierb. a. 'i 



