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Panicum indicum Matsum. Ind. PL Jap. II. 1 (1905), p. 70, 

 pro parte, non Linn. 



Culms hard, slender, erect or decumbent at the base. 

 Panicle spiciform, short or elongate, green. 



Nom. Jap. Hai-numeri (^Hr). 



Hab. JAPAN. 



This is always found growing in dry places. 



var. oryzetorum Makino, var. nov. 



Panicum indicum var. ft. contractum Franch. et Sav. 

 Enum. PI. Jap. II. (1879), p. 163, pro parte, non Mio. 



Panicum indicum Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. II. 1 (1905), p. 70, 

 pro parte, non Linn. 



Annual, soft, glabrous, 15-50 cm. high. Culms usually 



densely casspitose, erect, or erect-patent, not decumbent, stouter, 

 subspongy at the base. Leaves longer and broader, flaccid, 



thin, linear, acuminate with an acutish tip at the apex, very 

 shortly contracted at the base, attaining about 25 cm. long, 

 6 mm. broad ; ligule very short, truncate, thinly membrana- 

 ceous, ciliated or nearly so ; sheath long, thin, glabrous, green. 

 Panicle spiciform, densely flowered, cylindrical, often elongate, 

 often thicker, attaining about 14 cm. long and 7 mm. across, 

 usually dark-purplish. Glumes glabrous, or thinly pilosulate 

 dorsally except the lowest shorter one. 



Nom. Jap. Numeri-gusa (^if|)- 



Hab. JAPAN, common. 



This variety grows always in wet places such as rice-fields. 



Chenopodium album Linn. Sp. PI. p. 219. 



var. stenophyllum Makino, var. nov. 



Stem erect, ramose, green and flavescent- or rubescent-striate, 

 often rubescent below ; branches slender, erect-patent, furfuraceo- 

 pulverulent above. Leaves alternate, petiolate, often small, 

 lanceolate or linear, acuminate with a very sharp point, at- 

 tenuated at the base, depressed-subdentate or entire, thickly 

 membranaceous, green above, farinoso-subglaucous beneath. 

 Raceme close-flowered ; lateral ones short and each subtended 

 by a linear bract ; rachis and rachises furfuraceo-pulverulent ; 



