ftlOUA Oft ADEN. 
373 
N. Ind. 4; Benth. FI. Austral. VII, 483 ; Boiss. FI. Or. V, 440 ; Hook. 
FI. Brit. Ind. VII, 52*: Trim. FI. Ceyl. V, 156 ; Cooke FI. Bomb. 
Pres. II, 937. 
Panicum maximum Wall. Cat. n. 8715 B (partim) C (partim). 
Panicum polygamum Herb. Madr. ex Wight Cat. n. 1630. 
Panicum pruinosum Bernb. ex Trin. Pan. Gen. 191. 
Panicum subalbidum Kunth Revis. Gram, II, 397. t. 1.12, Enurn. J. 
Panicum tenue Roxb. ex Wight Cat. sub n. 1628 (non FI. Ind.) 
Milium arundinaceum Koen. ex Wight. Cat. l.c. 
Description : — A tall glabrous perennial grass reaching 5 feet high ; 
rootstock creeping, stoloniferous ; stem solid, woody, terete, smooth ; 
nodes thickened, the lower sometimes rooting. Leaves 6-24 by 
inch, linear, very finely acuminate with capillary tips ; sheaths long, 
glabrous, striate, with naked margins ; ligule short, membranous, 
jagged or fimbriate. 
Panicle 6-9 inches long, effuse, pyramidal ; rhachis very slender, 
angular, glabrous, or slightly scaberulous ; branches usually fascicled 
(the upper sometimes solitary), 3-4 inches long, filiform, spreading and 
drooping; branchlets capillary. Spikelets laxly crowded on the 
branchlets, reaching § inch long or slightly longer, ovoid, acute, 
glabrous. Glumes 4 ; lower involucral glume half as long as the upper, 
broadly ovate, subobtuse, 3-nerved, hyaline'; upper involucral glume 
broadly ovate, acuminate, 7-9-nerved, membranous; lower floral glume 
equal and similar to the upper involucral glume, paleate, empty or male, 
the palea oblong, subacute, hyaline, as long as the glume; upper floral 
glume coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, with incurved margins, dorsaliy 
smooth, yellowish-white; palea thinly coriaceous, ovate, acute, as long as 
the glume. Anthers linear-oblong. Styles 2, distinct, conspicuous, very 
plumose. 
Mowers and fruits : — December (Schweinf.). 
Locality : —Shaikh Othman, as a weed in watered places of gardens 
(Schweinf.). 
Distribution : — Tropical Africa, Afghanistan, Punjab, Upper Gangetic 
Plain, Sind, Gujarat, Southern Maratta Country, W. Peninsula of 
India, Ceylon, tropical Australia. 
5. Panicum leersioides Hochst. in Flora (1855) p. 196; Schweinf. 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II (1894), Append. 2, p. 21 ; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. FI. Afr. V (1895), p. 752, no. 98. 
Description : — Culms 1-2 feet high, branched below from an 
apparently annual root ; sheaths and leaves glabrous or with long 
