GRAMINEAE 



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PANICUM PALM AEFOLI U M Koenig in Naturf. 23 (1788) 208. 

 Angraecum terrestre alterum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 115? 



The description is rather indefinite, but apparently applies 

 to Panicum palmae folium Koenig. The reduction follows Hass- 

 karl's suggestion, Neue Schlussel (1866) 171, who thought 

 that it was either Panicum palmae folium Koenig or P. nepalense 

 Spreng. 



OPLISMENUS Beauvois 



OPLISMENUS COMPOSITUS (Linn.) Beauv. Agrost. (1812) 54. 

 Panicum compositum Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 57. 



Hippogrostis amboinica II minor Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 14, t. 5, f. 3. 



Linnaeus, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 133, reduced Hippogrostis 

 amboinica to Panicum colonum, merely citing the number of 

 the plate. There are three figures on the plate : one, Andropogon 

 aciculatus Retz., that manifestly Linnaeus did not intend to refer 

 to Panicum colonum; two, what I take to be Ischaemum timo- 

 rense Kunth, and which does not resemble Panicum colonum; 

 and three, what I take to represent Oplismenus compositus 

 Beauv., probably the figure that Linnaeus intended to refer to 

 Panicum colonum. However, it certainly is not this species. 

 Later, Linnaeus did refer t. 6, f. 3, to Panicum patens, Mant. 2 

 (1771) 323, apparently following Burman f., Fl. Ind. (1768) 

 26, but Panicum patens Burm. f . has nothing to do with Panicum 

 patens Linn. Lamarck, Encycl. 4 (1798) 742, refers it to his 

 Panicum bromoides, which is presumably the same as Oplis- 

 menus burmannii Beauv. Oplismenus compositus Beauv. does 

 not appear in our Amboina collections, but 0. burmannii Beauv. 

 is represented by Rel. Robins. 16J>5, collected in forests at Ayer 

 putri, July 29, 1913. It does not however, agree with 

 Rumphius's description of Hippogrostis amboinica or with the 

 figure cited above. 



SETARIA Beauvois 



SETARIA FLAVA (Nees) Kunth Rev. Gram. 1 (1829) 46. 

 Panicum flavum Nees in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2 (1829) 180. 

 - Panicum polystachion Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 870, Sp. PL ed. 2 

 (1762) 82 (type!), non Setaria polystachya Schrad., nec Scheele. 

 Panicum vulpinum Linn. Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 134 (type!), non 



Willd., nec Setaria vulpina Beauv. 

 Gramen vulpinum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 18, t. 7, f. 2B. 

 Amboina, Soja road, Lateri, and Gelala, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 41, 

 August, September, 1913. 



The Rumphian reference is the whole basis of both Panicum 

 vulpinum Linn., which does not appear in Index Kewensis, and 



