180 Catalogue of plants found in the Banda district. [No. 2„ 



latis, stam, 3, antheris vix exsertis fuscis, sty lis 2 a basi divergentibus, 

 stigmatibus ramoso-plumosis, semine hinc compresso. 



Among rocks at Banda ; I formerly found it at Rudour in fields, 

 in the Sikh states — the number of florets at once distinguishes it from 

 the whole genus. 



672. — This species resemble Vestitum and my Triflorum, my speci- 

 mens are unfortunately imperfect. 



673-4. — These are both common species and one of them is pro- 

 bably P. umbrosum, Roxb. — but without authentic specimens of his 

 plant I cannot determine which — in fact the same remark applies to 

 some others that I have named in the list. I have not referred any 

 to the genera Oplismenus and Eriochloa, the limits of which as distin- 

 guished from Panicum are not I think satisfactorily laid down yet, 

 while Digitaria I consider an indisputably natural genus. 



697. — Pennisetum holcoide — This answers very completely to 

 the description in Roxb. of Pan. holcoide, p. 285 excepting that he 

 says the flowers grow without order ; whereas in my plant they are 

 regularly arranged on the alternate joints of the waved rachis so as to 

 make a four-sided spike. 



698. — P. araneosum — Erectum culmis basi geniculars radicanti- 

 bus nodisque glabris, vaginis inferioribus pubescentibus superioribus 

 glabris, ligula ciliato-membranacea, foliis latiusculis planis glabris 

 prope basim pilis perpaucis longis sparsis barbellatis, subtus lsevibus 

 supra scabris margine semilatis ; spicis terminalibus involucris multi- 

 setosis duplici serie setis exterioribus minoribus, interioribus valde 

 insequalibus prope medium pilis longis araneosis coalitis apice nudis 

 hispidis, uno ceteris duplo longiore (8-9 lin) bi-locustato, locusta una 

 sessili biflora, altera pedicellato prius florente uniflora ; floris sessilis 

 gluma exteriore flore duplo breviore hyalina longissimo araneoso-ciliata, 

 altera flore superante hyalina 3-5 nervi apice breviter mucronata, flore 

 inferiore neutro vel $ 1-2 paleata, p. exteriore truncata hyalina 

 apice ciliolata glumam semulante sub 3-nervi glanduloso-punctata, 

 p. altera oblonga hyalina apice ciliata plerumque carente, lodiculis 

 nullis, Flor. g p. lucidis inclusis sub-acutis, apice ciliolatis stam. 3, 

 antheris flavis apice mucronulatis, lodiculis oblique lanceolatis acutis, 

 ovario ovato, stylis basi breviter coalitis ramis longis exsertis apice 

 plumosis. 



