578 



(39) P. EEMOTTJM. (Ret%.) 



I Ami. Eetz. obs. iv. 17. 



Spec. Chae. Culm branciied, creeping at the base, ascending, 

 apex slender : leaves linear-acuminate, and witli the sheaths gla- 

 brous : raceme decompound, lax, partial ones alternate, thin, secund, 

 scabrous : spikelets twin, distant, oval, puberulous : pedicels longish, 

 naked : glumes unequal, obtuse : lower one twice shorter : neuter 

 floret 2-valved : hermaphrodite one oblong, muticous, transversely 

 lightly waved and wrinkled, striated lengthways, equalling the 

 upper glume. 



Peninsula. 



(40) P. PAinDosuM. (Roxb.J 



Jdent. Eoxb. 1. e. p. 302. 



Syn. P. natans, Koen. Trim. diss. II. 737. 



Spbc. Chae. Culm branched, erect, swollen under the water, 

 and there emitting roots from the joints : leaves linear, glaucescent, 

 hispid, sheaths bearded at the mouth : panicle oval, diffuse, thin, 

 composed of scattered, sub-alternate ramous branches, angles sharp, 

 finely pointed : flowers oblong, twin, partial pedicels unequal : seed 

 oblong, smooth, brown. 



Usually growing in water in the Circax vallies. 



(41) P. mjLTIBEACHIATUM. (Sochst.) 



Ident. Hochst in Steudel 1. c. p. 74. 



Spec. Chae. Culm sub-prostrate at the base, branched, rooting, 

 almost entirely sheathed, naked below the panicle, terete, glabrous : 

 sheaths and leaves more or less hairy from very minute tubercles : 

 ligula thin, membranaceous, exserted : leaves linear-lanceolate, often 

 pUcately waved at the edges, here and there as if stipulated by 

 small leaflets in the axils : panicles straightish, lower rays 4 — 5- 

 nate verticelled, upper ones scattered, all erect, simple, racemose, 

 sparingly hairy : spikelets unequally pedieelled, longer or shorter 

 than the pedicels themselves : spikelets varying between green and 

 violet, ovate-lanceolate, acute : glumes a little unequal, 6 — 7-nerved : 

 hermaphrodite floret shorter than the glumes. 



Neilgherries. 



(42) P. MOVAXENSE. (St&ud.J 



Ident. ^teudel 1. c. p. 78. 



Syn. P. conoinnum, Edgw. in. As. Jowrn. 1852, p. 79. 



Spec. Chae. Creeping : culms tapering, glabrous : knots hairy. 



