566 



(4) P. BiFAKiTTM. (Edgew.J 



Ident. Edgeworth in Joum. As. Soc, 1852. 187. 



Spec. Chab. Culms decumbent, glabrous : sbeatbs acutely 

 keeled, much longer than the intemodes : leaves usually approxi- 

 mated, bifarious, linear-lanceolate, acute, quite glabrous, glau- 

 cescent, narrow margined : ligula membranaceous, decurrent into 

 the edge of the sheath : floriferous culms terminal : racemes conju- 

 gate, secund, diverging : rhachis flat, herbaceous-margined : spike- 

 lets 3 : pedicels unequal, of the two upper flowers more or less 

 adnate to the rhachis, swollen at the apex, cup-shaped, glabrous, 

 smooth : , glumes two, pubescent, unequal, scarcely exceeding the 

 florets : valvelets hardened ia fruit, shining, ovate. 



Banda district. (?) 



(5) P. NEHAIODES. fSchuU.J 



Ident. Schult. Mant. II. 171.— Steud. 1. c. p. 33. 



Syn. Milium fiUforme, £oxb. I. e. I. 314. — ^Helopus filiculmis, 

 Ifees. 



Spec. Chah. Creeping, glabrous : cuhn flower-bearing, erect, 

 tapering : leaves short with a stipulary process at the throat of the 

 sheath : racemes 2 — 3, sessile, secund erect : axis somewhat mem- 

 branaceous and waved : spikelets alternate, solitary, in two rows : 

 glumes stiff, glabrous, muticous. 



Pasture ground in the Peninsula, flowering in the rainy season. 



GENUS VI. PAIOGUM. 

 Triandvia Di^ynla. Sex Syst: 



Deriv. Jlither from Fanis bread, or Panicula a panicle. 



Gen. Chae. Spikelets 2-flowered, naked : upper flower her- 

 maphrodite, lower 1 — 2-paleaceous male, or neuter muticous, mem- 

 braceous : glumes 2, unequal, membranaceous, concave, muticous : 

 valvelets of the hermaphrodite flower 2, coriaceous, very rarely 

 membranaceous, concave muticous, lower embracing the equal- 

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

 elongated : stigmas peniciUate, hairs simple denticulate : hypo- 

 gynous scales 2, fleshy, dolabriform or truncated, 2 — 3-lobed, 

 glabrous, collateral: caryopsis slightly compressed parallel to the 

 embryo, closely enclosed by the palese, free : inflorescence a raceme, 

 thyrse, or panicle. 



