Pennise/um.'] clxxiii. gramine*. (J. D. Hooker.) 85 



contracted, mouth of the often ciliate sheath bearded. Spikes 2-6 in., rather slender, 

 very pale, often flexuous ; involueels subsessile j bristles nearly straight or flexuous, 

 one often very much the longest, all free to the base. 



4. P. oompressum, £n Prodr. 193; tip of peduncle and raohis of 

 spike more or less villous, spikelets i in. solitary lanceolate, gl. I minute 

 or 0, II = g-5 III ovate-lanceolate acute or obtuse 1-nerved, III ovate 

 acuminate 5-7-nerved epaleate, IV = III 5-nerved. Schrad. in LinncBa, 

 xii. (1838) 431 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 495 ; 8teiid. Syn. Oram. 102. P. 

 alopecuroides, /Syreny. Syst. i. ZQZ {in part). P. chinenae, S*e«cZ. Z. c. 108. 

 P. oynosuroidea, Wall. Oat. n. 8653. P. hordeiforme, Spreng. Syst. i. 302. 

 P. nigricans, JVm. ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. ii. 297, Syn. dram. 103. P. 

 japonicum, Trin. in Spreny. Neue Entdech. ii. 76, Diss. ii. 63, Pan. Gen. 88, 

 8p. Gram,. Ic. 1. 19 ; Pranch. et Savat. Pnum. PL Jap. ii. 164. Penicillaria 

 cMnensia, Nees ex Steud. I. c. Gymnothrix compressa, Brongn. Voy. Coq. Bot. 

 103. P Gr. cenohroides, Poem. & Sch. i. 499 (inpart). Gr. hordeiformis, Nees in 

 Linncea, vii. (1832) 276. G. japonica, Kunth Pnum. PI. i. 158. Gr. nigri- 

 cans, Presl Bel. Maenk. i. 315. Gr. purpurascens, Sw. ex Trin. Diss. ii. 64, 

 Pan. Gen. I. c. p Oenchrns hordeiformis, Thunb. Prodr. PL Cap. 24. C. 

 purpurascens, Thunh. in Trans. lAwn. Soc. ii. (1794) 329. Selaria com- 

 pressa, Kunth Bevis. Gram. 46, Enum. i. 150. Panicum alopecuroides, 

 Linn. 8p. PI. 55. P. aristidoides, Willd. ex Spreng. Syst. i. 302. Pan. 

 asperum, lAnJc. Enum. Sort. Berol. i. 75 {non Sch. ?). Pan. hordeiforme, 

 Thunh. Fl. Jap. 46, t. 9 {excl. cit. Afr.). ? Alopecurus hordeiformis, Pirm. 

 Sp. PI. 60.— Grymnothrix, Wall. Cat. n. 8653. 



Burma ; Taong Dong, Wallich ; Shan Hills, alt. 4000 ft., Manders. — Distrib. 

 China, Japan, Tonkin, Australia. 



Perennial; stein 1-2 ft., densely tufted. Leaves 12-18 in., very narrow, con- 

 volute, silkily villous towards the base; sheath glabrous or ciliate; ligule obscure. 

 Spikes 2-4 in., purplish in Indian specimens; involueels pedioelled, pedicels villous; 

 bristles few, very unequal, one or two much longer than the rest and an inch long, 

 all free at the base. — Trinius refers to P. compressum, the Alopecurus hordeiformis, 

 Lian. (Cenchrus hordeiformis, Thunb., Chymnothrix cenchroides, R. & S.), which 

 appear to me to be more probably P. Alopecurus, 



5. P. dicliotoiuuill, Delih Fl. .Mgypt. 159, t. 8, f. 1 ; stem dioho- 

 tomously branched rigid, peduncle and raohis glabrous, spikelets 5 in. 

 usually solitary lanceolate, gl. I = f III ovate-lanceolate acuminate, 

 II = III lanceolate acuminate 5-7-nerved, III = lY both 5-nerved. 

 Trin. Diss. ii. 66, Pan. Gen. 94 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 161, Suppl. 110 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 105; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 444; Aitahis. Cat. 

 Panjah. Fl. 162; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 10. P. phalaroides, SohuU. 

 Mant. ii. 147 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 283. Grymnothrix longiglumia, Munro in 

 Gat. Griff. &e. PL 56 (nam,e). Oeuchrus ramosissimus, Pair. Encycl. vi. 

 51; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 294. Phalaris setacea, Forsk. FL JEgypt. 

 Arab. 20. Panicum dichotomum, Forsk. I. e. ; Steud. I. 0. 105. 



Panjab and the N.W. Peoviitoes (fid. DutMe). Peshawub, Aiteltison. Sikd 

 and GuzEBAT ; on sand hills. Stocks. — Distrib. Affghan. and westwards to N. 

 Africa. 



Perennial, quite glabrous, bushy. Stems distantly branched ; intemodes long, 

 rigid, polished ; branches sometimes fascicled. Leaves short, rigid, convolute. Spikes 

 3-5 in., oylindric, pale, nearly white ; rachis scabrid ; bristles of sessile involueel, 

 very many, slender, flexuous, pale, the longer nearly twice as long as the spikelel!, 

 inner stouter somewhat plumose, all free at the base. — I have seen no specimens from 

 the Pan jab or the N.W. Provinces. 



