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(1) P. COETMBOSUM. (Roxl.) 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 292. 



S^n. Paspalum corymbosuin, Kunth. 



Spec. Chae. Culms creeping, floating, emersed at the apex, 

 branclied, 2 — 3-feet : leaves linear, hairs stiff, white : sheaths 

 bristly: racemes about 15, loosely fascicled, corymbose, closely 

 floriferous : spikelets twin, sub-lineal, linear-obloijg, acute, pu- 

 bescent at the sides : lower glume none, upper very small. 



Standing water among the Circar vallies, growing to a large size. 



(2) P. DILATATTTM. (SUuAel.) 



Ident. Steudel Syn. pi. Gram. p. 39. 



Syn. P. extensum, Nees in Wight herb. No. 1045— 47. 



Spec. Chah. Culm creeping at the base, branched, and with 

 the sheaths glabrous, hairy at the mouth : leaves lanceolate-linear, 

 waved at the margin, glabrous or sparingly hairy : racemes many, 

 verticillately corymbose, elongated, hirsute at the insertions : spike- 

 lets approximated, twin, one sub-sessile, one short pedicelled, 

 pedicels beardless and with the broadish rachis serrulate, scabrous at 

 the margin : lower glume obsolete, upper one lanceolate, 3-nerved, 

 3 times shorter than the "lanceolate acute 7-nerved floret, pubescent 

 at the edge. 



Courtallum. 



(3) P. PSEDTDO-SETABIA. ( Bteud.) 



Ident. Steudel 1. c. 



Syn. Digitaria stricta, Roth. — Setaria stricta, Kunth. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, filiform, and with the sheaths glabrous, 

 the latter hairy at the mouth : leaves linear, elongated, striated, 

 sparingly scattered with long hairs : ligula short, cut and ciliated : 

 spikes somewhat fascicukte-panicled, very long, bristly, bearded at 

 the base: common rhachis furrowed and angled, hairy at the 

 springing of the spikeliets, partial ones somewhat triquetrous, 

 serrulate at the edgCy: spikelets oval, pubescent at the margin, 

 extrorsely half-involucrated at the base with a bundle of bristles : 

 outer glume very small, ovate, very obtuse. 



Bengal. 



(4) P. "WAiLicHiAiniM. (W- and A.) 

 Ident. Wight and Amott ex Nees MS. — St.eudel 1. c. 41. 



