1852.] Catalogue of plants found in the Banda district. 179 



but it is so short that one cannot be certain from it. It may be 

 Roxb/s Milium filif or me, p. 314, Vol. I. but I do not think it can be. 



669. — Panicum concinnum — Repens culmis teretibus glabris, 

 nodis pilosis (inferioribus radicantibus), vaginis inferioribus pilosis 

 superioribus glabris margine tantum ciliatis arete culmum involventi- 

 bus, fauce ciliato, ligula ciliata lamina plana quasi petiolata basi pilis 

 longis barbata ceterum glabra, scaberrima, margine serrulata (3-4 lin. 

 lata, 2-4 poll longa). Paniculis sub-decompositis secundis, ramis secun- 

 dis racemosis vel solitariis sessilibus vel 1, 2 pedicellatis adjunctis, 

 rachi scabro-angulosa, rachilla scabro pubescente, locustis solitariis 

 omnibus brevi pedicellatis ad apicem pedicelli articulatis, bifloris, 

 glumis 2 exteriore minima ovata apice membranacea, interiore (infe- 

 riore) ovata acuta 3-5 nervea extus pilosa. 



fl. <? vel <5 2-paleato, palea exteriore gluma secunda paulo longiore 

 3 nervea ciliata apice et margine hyalina acutiuscula, interiore hyalino 

 oblonga 2-nervea fl. $ paleis lucidis obtusis Isevissimis, stam. 3, anth. 

 e flavis fuscis, lodiculis 2 oblique obcuneatis eroso truncatis. 



This delicate and elegant species is an annual in cultivated fields, 

 rather light soil ; it is readily distinguished from all the other species 

 I have seen in its pubescent racemose inflorescence, found at Mowai 

 near Banda. 



676. — Panicum triflorum — Annuum, repens, molliter pubes- 

 cens. Culmis decumbentibus semi-teretibus pubescentibus, vaginis 

 laxis, ligula breviciliata, foliis oblongo-linearibus basi sub-cordatis apice 

 breviter acuminatis quandoque latiusculis, panicula pauce-ramosis, 

 tomentosa, racemis rectis sub-alternis divergentibus, rachi et rachilla 

 excavatis dorso tomentosa angulis scabris pedicellis pilosis setis paucis 

 fulcratis locustis B. 2, vel 1, uno subsessili late ovatis acutis, trifloris 

 (rarius 2) ; glumis 2 exteriore sub decurrente sub-hyalina obscure 

 3-nervea ceteras basi arete amplectetenti, interiore late ovata 5 pervia 

 floribus 3 (v. 2,) quorum 2 (v. 1,) neutris. 1 (J, flore inter neutros, 

 fl. neutro inferiore 1 -rarius 2-paleato palea exteriore 5 nervea acuta, 

 interiore hyalina alterius floris neutri palea exteriore duriore concavo 

 5 nervea apiculata, interiore tryalina oblonga margine involute biden- 

 tato, floris fertili palea rugosis, exteriore concava 3-nervea nervis 

 prominentibus glabris, acutiuscula interiore isto incluso, marginibus 

 involutis sub-auriculatis, lodiculis majusculis, dolabriformibus crenu- 



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