8t cLXxiii. GEAMiNE*. (J. H. Hooker.) [PennUetum,:. 



awn an inch long. Peniuillaria cylindrica, R. S^ 8. ; Wight Cat. n. 1662.— A 

 diseased form. 



Sect. II. Pbnnisetum proper. Anther-oells aot bearded. 

 * Bristles of involncel all free to the base, slender, 

 f Bristles branched. 



1. P. lanatum, Klotzsch in Bot. Erg. Waldem. Beise, 65, t. 93. 

 P. serioeum, M-unro mss. P. nepalense, Ch-iseb. in Goett. Naehr. fl868) 302 

 {non. Spreng.) 



Westhkn HiMiiATA, alt. 7-9000 ft.; from Kashmir to Garwhal, and Westeen 

 Tibet, Jacquemont, &c. 



Perennial ; rootstock often stout, woody, creeping and branciiing ; stem 1-3 ft. 

 Leaves 6-18 by |-i in., flat, glabrous hairy or silkily villous. Spilces 2-5 in., i-| in. 

 diam., pale green; peduncle and rachis more or less villous; involucels pedicelled, 

 densely imbricate. Spikelets \ in., solitary in the involucels, rather shorter than the 

 scabrid and sparsely ciliate branching bristles; gl. I = } III, ovate, acute; II = 

 J IV, oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved, III and IV lanceolate, acuminate, 5-nerved. 



ft Bristles unbranched, scaberulous, not or sparingly ciliate. 



2. P. Alopecuros, Stewd. Syn. Crram. 102 (non Jacq.) ; peduncle and 

 raobis of spike glabrous, spikelets 5 in. solitary narrowly lanoeolate,_gl. I 

 minnte, II = J III oblong obtuse 1-3-nerved, III lanceilate acuminate 

 7-11-nerved, IV subulate-lanceolate 5-nerved. Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 

 10 ; L'sboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1890) 338. P. Hobenackeri, 

 Bochst. ex Steud. I. c. 103. P. aureum, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 294 ; 

 ? Link. Sort. Berol. i. 215. Gymnothrix Alopecuros, Nees in Wight Gat. 

 n. 1663; Stewd. I.e. G. cenchroides, Roem. & Sch. Si/st. ii. 499; Kwnth 

 lEnum. PI. i. 155 ; Wight ex Steud Syn. Gram. 102. Oencbrus hordeiformia, 

 ITerb. Rottl. er Sttud. I. c. 102 (non Thunb.). Panicum helTolum, Herb. 

 Madr. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8652 A. Pan. bordeiforme, Thunb. Fl. Japan. 46 

 (partly). — Gymnothrix ? Wall. Cat. n. 8652. 



RiJEtJiANA ; swamps on Mt. Abu, D™t/aV. The Concan, Siocfts, &c. Nilohiri 

 Hills, alt. 5500 ft. 



rerennial. Stems 2-3 fb., stout, erect, densely tufted below, subdistichously 

 branching upwards ; branches strict, erect. Leaves 12-18 by -J^i in., coriaceous, 

 convolute, glabrous, base and flattened distichous sheath often villous ; ligule of 

 hairs. Spilces 5-7 in., usually pale green ; rachis flexuous ; involucels very shortly 

 pedicelled ; bristles few, very unequal, nearly straight, longest 2-3 times as long as 

 the spikelet, bases quite free ; gl. I suborbicular. — Habit of P. compressum. The 

 P. aureum of the Bombay Flora is, I do not doubt, P. Alopecuros, but what P. aureum 

 of Link may be is uncertain. 



3. P. flaccldum, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868) 86; peduncle and 

 rachis of spike pflabrons, spikelets J in. solitary ovate-lanceolate, gl. I very 

 small orbicular or 0, II ^ | IV lanceolate 5-nerved, III and IV ovate- 

 lanceolate subsetaceously acuminate 5-nerved. Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 10. 

 P. mon^olicum, Franch. mss. Gymnothrix flaccida, Munro ex Aitchis. Gat. 

 Pamjah. PI. 163. 



Temperate and alpine Himalaya, alt. 5-11,000 ft. ; from Kashmir to W. Nepal 

 and Western Tibet. — Distbib. Affghan., Central Asia. 



Perennial. Stem 6-24 in., den^sely tufted, creeping below, branching at the base 

 only, slender above. Leaves 5-10 by i-J in., flat, glabrous or sparsely hairy, base 



