576 



Spec. Chae. Culms creeping near the base, the rest erect, 

 smooth, one-and-a-half foot high : leaves long, narrow, smooth : 

 racemes sub-digitate, -3 — 8 : spifeelets alternate in two series, un- 

 equally pediceUed : glumes glabrous : sheaths hairy. 



Western coast. 



(32) P. PTEAMTDAIE. (Lom.) 



Idetit. Jjani. Encycl. iv. 745.— Kunth 1, c. p. 93. 



Spec. -Chak. Leaves linear, glabrous, scabrous at the margin 

 with small spines : spikes numerous, somewhat verticiUately spiked 

 at the top of the culm, spreading : spikelets unilateral, in 4 series : 

 glumes unequal, scabrous with spines on the nerves : male flower 

 2-paleaceous, hermaphrodite slightly striated, glabrous, shining. 



Bengal. 



(33) P. LEPTOCHLOA. (Nees.j 

 Ident. Nees Ms.r^Steudel 1. c. p. 62. 



/%Kr. Leptochloa (?) panicoides, Wight Serh. No. 125. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves linear, elongated, glabrous, knots yellow: 

 raceme compound, dense, partial ones approximated, alternate, 

 straight, hairy at the base : rhachis furrowed : spikelets solitary or 

 twin, short-pedicelled, ovate-lanceolate, polygamous : glumes cus- 

 pidate, lower one smaller : keel hispidly scabrous, upper one 5- 

 nerved: lower valvelet of the 2-valvet floret 3-nerved, smooth, 

 hermaphrodite one twice shorter than the male, lower valvelet 

 emarginate. 



Peninsula. 



(34) P. PE08TEAIUM. fZum.J 



Lam. Encycl. iv. 745. — Dalz. 1. c. 



^^... P. ppoGumbens, Wees Agr. Bras. 109.-=^P. setigefum, 5efe. 

 Roxh. I. c. 299. — P. oaespitosum, Swartz. 



Spec. Chae. Culm creeping, branched, 1 — 2-feet, nodes pu- 

 bescent : sheaths glabrous or ciliated : leaves lanceolate from a 

 cordate base, ciliated at the base, 1 — 2-inches long : racemes 4 — 15, 

 crowded, alternate, much longer than the interstices: spikelets 

 twin and solitary, oval, acute, smooth : lower glume a quarter the 

 length of the flowers : hermaphrodite floret cuspidate-mucronate, 

 slightly wrinkled. 



About Surat. Bengal. 



