86 OLXxiii. GBAMiNE^. (J. T). Hooker.) IP^misetums. 



6. P. parvlflorum, THn. Diss. ii. 65, Sp. Oram. Ic. t. 288 ; annual, 

 erect, peduncle and rachis glabrous, spike very narrow purple, spikelets 

 i in. solitary narrowly lanceolatp, gl. I minute snborbicular, 11 longest 

 truncate cuspidate S-nervdd, III = f II truncate toothed 5-nenred paleate 

 male, IV = III lanceolate obtuse nerveless shming. 8M. Syn Q^am. 

 103. P. imberbe, Edgew. in Journ. Unn. Soc. xxi. (1852) Ibl {.name) ; 

 Steud. 8yn. Gram. 104; ButUe Grass. N. PF. Ind. 10, Ir^ig. Fodd Grass. 

 t. 50, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 18. Gymnothrix bordeoides, Ewnth Kerns. 

 Gram.i. 48, Fnum. i. 60. Panioum hordeoides, Poir. tn Lam lUust.i. 

 170. Alopecurus rubicundus, Serb. Ram. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8646 B. 



Eajptjtana ; at Oodeypore, Wingaie (Beri Duthie). Behae, on Paruanath, 

 and at Hazaribsg'i, Carle— DisTfilB. tropical Africa. ^ ,„, , .. 



Stem 2-3 ft , branching upwards, leafy, branches erect. Leaoes 4-10 by j-s in., 

 fiat, base and mouth of sheath ciliate. Spikes 3-5 by f-i in. diam. j rp.chis very 

 slender, strict, as it were crenate from the projections between the close-set spike- 

 lets ; bristles of sessile involuoel very slender, quite free, a few 4r-6 times as 

 long as the spikelet.— Closely allied to P. setosa. Probably not indigenous m 

 India. 



ft Bristles unhrancked, inner copiously ciliate or lanate. 



7. P. orientale, Rich, in Pers. Syn. i. 72 ; perennial, rachis of spike 

 hairy, spikelets 2-5 in each pedicelled involucel ^ in. lanceolate, gl. I = III 

 ovate or oblong nerveless, II shorter than IV ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 3-nerved, III longest aristately acuminate 6-nerved, IV oblong-lanceolate 

 aristate shining. Trin. Diss. ii. 69; Xunth Enum. PI. i. 162, ii. 117; 

 Griseb. in Ledeh: Fl. Ross. iv. 472 ; Coss. Sf Bur. Fl. Alg&r. ii. 39 ; Boisa. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 445 ; But/iie Grass. N.W. Ind. 10. P. araneosum, Edgew. in 

 Journ. Peng. As. Soc. xxi. (1852), 180 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 105 ; Aitchis. 

 Cat. Panjab. PI. 162; Bufhie Grass. N.W. Ind. 10. P. asperifolium, 

 Xunth Revis. Oram. i. 49, Enum. PI. I. c. P. elatum, Bochst. ex Steud. 

 Nom. Ed. II. ii. 297. P. fasciculatnm, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 

 6, iii. II. (1835) 181. P. Griffithii, Manro Gat. PL Griff. iSfc. ined. 56. P. 

 macrostachyum, Fresen. in Mus. Senkenb. ii. 135 {non Trim,.). P. persicnm, 

 Boiss. S( Buhse in Nov. Mem.. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xii. (1860) 232. P. phalari- 

 forme, Steud. Syn. Gram. 106 {ex descripf.). P. Ruppellii, Steud. Nom. I. c. 

 298. P. sinaioum, Becne in Ann. Sc Nat. Ser. 2, ii. (1834) 11 ; Aitchis. I.e. 

 Buthie I. c. P. tenue & variabile. Fig. Sf Notar. in Mem. Accad. Torin Ser. 

 2, xii. (1852), 246, 248. P. tiberiadis, Boiss. Biagn. Ser. I. xiii. 43. Oenchms 

 asperifolins, Besf. Fl. Atlant. ii. 388. 0. hordeiformis, Pers. I. r. 71 {non 

 Lamk.). 0: orientalis, Willd. ex Trin. Biss. ii. 69; Xunth I.e. 162. 

 Panicum orientale, Willd. Enum. Sort. Berol. ii. 1031. 



Westekn Himalata, from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 3-6O0O ft. The Panjab, 

 SiNDH, the CONCAN and Behar (on Parusnath, alt. 2000 ft., Clarke). — Disteib. 

 Westward to Asia Minor and N. Afr. 



Stem 2-6 ft., erect or ascending from a densely tufted often stont creeping 

 branching rootstock. Leaves 1-2 ft. by i-J in., narrowly linear, flat or subconvolnte, 

 glabrous or hairy. Spike 5-16 in. ; raohis stout, subterete, not grooved or notched! 

 pedicels of involucels hispid ; bristles |-f in., all very slender, flexuous, often pur- 

 plish, very unequal, villous below, quite free at the base ; spikelets on the short 

 branches of a hispid pedicel, outer often imperfect. 



Var. triflorum, Stapf mss. ; spike elongate dense-flowered. P. triflornm, Nees 

 in Herb. Koyle ; Steud,. I. a. 107. 



8. P. pedicellatum, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. iii. 



