584 



valve of tlie glume very minute, nerveless : inner one half the 

 length of the flower. 



"Western coast. Peninsula. Bengal. 



(61) P. EsTPTiACUM. (Rett.) 



Idmt. Eetz. ohs. III. 8.— Eoxb. 1. c. 293. 



Syn. Digitaria Egyptiaca, TVilM.' — P. filiforme, Jacq. obs. 

 III. 18. 



Jaoq. 1. c. t. 70. 



vSpec. Chae. Creeping at the base : spikes 4 — 8, corymbose, 

 smooth : florets twin, unequally pedicelled : accessory valve of the 

 glume minute or wanting, the rest unequal, nerved and cUiated on 

 the margin. 



"Western Coast. Peninsula. A scaice grass in India. 



(62) P. ITepaiense. fSpreng.J 



Ident. Spreng. syst. I. 321. — ^Dalz. 1. c. p. 291. 



Syn. P. nervosum, Eoxb. I. e. 311. 



Spec. Chae. Erect, 4 — 5-feet : leaves lanceolate, plicate, 1-foot 

 in length, 2 inches in breadth : mouths of the sheaths bearded : 

 panicle thin, branches long, simple, filiform, remote : florets 

 solitary or twin, or in threes, pedicelled, with a long awn often 

 springing from the pedicel, smooth. 



"Western side of the Ghauts. 



(63) P. GEHTCULAima:. { Griffith.) 



Jdent. Griffith notulse p. III. p. 41. (under Isachne.) 



Spec. Chab. Decumbent at the base and rooting, joints hirsute, 

 swollen : sheaths short, pubescent, ciUated and bearded at the 

 throat : leaves short, lanceolate, somewhat stem-cla'sping at the 

 base, hairy at the margins, scabrous : panicle slender, ovate, flowers 

 solitary as if 2-lipped : peduncles somewhat cartilaginous at the 

 base : upper flower female with rudimentary stamens. 



Near Osunpoor, JBengal. This and the following species are 

 included by Griffiths under Isachne, a genus which only differs from 

 Pcmioum by the female floret being superior and with rudimentary 

 stamens. Brown in his Prodomus makes Isachne a section of the 

 Genus Panicum, in which he is followed by Steudel and others. 



