575 



(28) P. I'LAvrDTTM. (Eetz.J 

 Idmt. Eetz. obs. it. 15. 



Syn. P. brizoides, Itoxb. (not Eetz.) — P. granulare, I^m. 



Engram. Trin. Ic. t. 159, 158. 



Spec. Chak. Culm slender, erect, simple : leaves linear, gla- 

 brous : racemes 6 — 12, alternate, much shorter than the instertices, 

 by degrees shorter : spikelets solitary, ia 2 rows, somewhat round- 

 ish-oblong, acutish, glabrous : lower glume rounded, upper ones a 

 little shorter than the florets, hermaphrodite ones hooked at the 

 apex, a little wrinkled. 



Bengal. Peninsula. Both in wet and dry situations. Parts of 

 the plant are often tinged with purple. 



(29) P. piTiiTAirs. CReti.) 



Ident. Eetz. obs. III. 8, 1. v. IS.^Vahl.— WiUd.— Eoxb. 1. c. p. 

 297. 



Spec. Chah. Culms 2 — 3-feet, creeping at the base : leaves long 

 and smooth : mouths of the sheaths bearded and sub-ciliate : spike 

 compound, partial ones alternate, adpressed : spikelets bifarious, 

 elU^c : lower glume very short and truncated, upper obovate, 

 rounded, a little shorter than the palese : lower flower neuter, 1- 

 valved : seed elliptic, acute, minutely wrinkled. 



Moist rich soil. Bengal. Peninsula. 



(30) P. BEizoroEs. fJacq^.J 



lient. Jaoq. Eclog. Gram. 1. 1. 2. — ^N. ab. E. in Mart. Bras. II. 

 115.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 290. 



Spec. Chas. Culms near the base resting on the ground, above 

 ascending, compressed, smooth : leaves bifarious, smooth : mouths 

 of the sheaths bearded : spikes compound : spikelets bifarious, 

 ovate, ventricose : glumes ovate, lower one-third-shorter than the 

 , flower, upper a Uttie shorter than the flower : seed ovate, Qj)tuse, 

 smooth. 



Near Surat. 



(31) P. jAVANTCim. 



Ident. Poir Enc. Suppl. iv. 274. 



Syn. Urochloa panicoides, Beam. AgrosL 52, t. ii., fig. 1. — 

 Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 290. — Milium sanguinale, Roxb. 



Ikgrcm. Burm. Ind. t. 10, fig. 1. 



