568 



Spec. Chae. Culm branched, 'creeping at the base, slender, 

 glabrous : sheaths at the sides and with the leaves above villous, 

 the latter waved at the edge, glaucous beneath : racemes many 

 alternate or verticilled : rhaohis sparingly villous : pedicels 2- 

 floweredj somewhat lax: lower glume obsolete, truncated or 

 obliq[uely 1 -toothed, upper one oblong, equalling the florets, 

 3-nerved: neuter valvelet 7-nerved, slighliy villous at the cir- 

 cumference, interstices whitish-silky. 



Peninsula. 



(5) P. COUnTGAITTM. fRoxl.J 



Ident. Eoxb. 1. e. 288. 



Syn. Digitaria conjugata, SchuU. 



Spec. Chae. Somewhat creepiug, thin, softly villous : spikes 

 twin, conjugate, secund: flowers solitary, sessile, muticous: glumes 

 3-nerved : corolla famished with a neutral accessory, valvelet : 

 leaves softly hairy : sheaths large, downy. 



Coromandel. Western coast 



(6) P. crmcnnna:. (Rett.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. III. 9.— Eoxb. 1. c. 291. 



Syn. TJrochloa cimicina, Kunth I. c. 31. — ^Milium cimicinum, 

 Zinn. Mont. 184. — Axonopus cimicinus, Beatw. agrost. 42. 



Spec. Chas. Culms erect or ascending : sheaths with scattered 

 hairs : leaves lanceolate from an ovate base, smooth, cUiated : spikes 

 in flves, digitate : spikelets soUtaiy, or in twos or threes : glumes 

 3-nerved, the upper one densely ciliated pn the margin : outer 

 palea termiaated by an awn. 



Peninsula. 



(7) P. BmaMAiTNi. (Ret%.) 

 Ident. Eetz. 1. c. 10.— Eoxb. 1. c. p. 295. 



OpHsmenus Burmanni, Beam), agrost. 54. — P. hirtellum, 

 Bwrm. — Orthopogon Burmanni, R. Br. prod. 194. — P. bromoides. 

 Lam. Enc. iv. 742. — P. album, Poir. — 0. albus, Roem. cmd ScJmlt. 

 Echinochloa hirtella, Sehult. Mant. II. 269. — 0. Humboldtianus, 

 Nees ah JSsenl. in Mart. Bras. II. 264. — 0. Brasiliensis, Raddi. 

 agrost. Bras. 400. 



Mngram. Trin. Ic. 17, t. 193.— Burm. Ind. t. 12, fig. I. 



