565 



upper one : stamens 3 : ovary glabrous : styles 2, terminal, free : 

 stigmas brush-shaped : hypogynous scales 2, entire, glatrous, fleshy, 

 truncated or dblabriform : caryopsis oblong of orbicular, a little 

 depressed, glabrous, enclosed by the .hardened palese. 



(1) P. SCEOBICTJLATTM. (Lvm.J 



Ident. linn. Sp. 330.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 378. 



P. Kora, Willd. Roxh. I. c. p. 279. — P. frumentaceum, 

 Rotil- — P. Commersonii, Lcm. III. I. 175. — P. orbiculare, Worst. 

 Brown Prod. 188. 



Trin. Ic. t. 143.— Willd. Hort. 7, t. 74. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot fibrous: culm branched, erect, 1 — 2-feet: 

 sheaths glabrous or hirsute at the base, ciliated : Ugula very short, 

 rounded : leaves linear, sub-acuminate, glabrous : racemes 2 — 3, 

 approximated, alternate : spikelets biserial, short-pediceUed, oblong- 

 roundish, acutish : glumes 6 — 7 -nerved) upper one scrobiculate at 

 the sides- 

 Peninsula. 



(2) P. Metzii. fSteud.J 



Ident. Steud. 1. c. p. 21. 



Spec. Chab. Eoot fibrous : culm simple or branched, glabrous, 

 leafy : sheaths elongated, covering the culm, scarcely hairy at the 

 mouths : Hgula membranaceous, short, torn : leaves long, flat, 

 lanceolate, attenuated into a long acumen, smooth, often waved and 

 slightly plaited on one side : spikes 2, seldom temate, sub-alternate, 

 erect : spikelets biserial, sessile, imbricated, almost lineal, ovate, 

 obtuse, yellowish golden. 



Neilgherries. 



(3) P. BisTicHTJM, (Bv/rm.) 



Burm. Ind. 23, 



Syn. P. longiflorum, Bet%. Boxh. I. e. p. 279. 



Mngrm. Eheede Mai. xii. t. 44. — Beauv, flor. t. 85. 



Spec. Chae. Culm creeping at the base ; Hgula hairy : leaves 

 rolled inwards, distichous, and with the sheatlip glabrous : racemes 

 twin, conjugate, divaricately horizontal : spikelets in two rows : 

 axis equalling in breadth the solitary spikelets. 



Peninsula, in pastures. 



