CLVII. GRAMINE^J (Stapf). 
603 
Urochloa.] 
Ind. Occ. i. 146. P. Sieberi, Link, Hort. Berol. i. 207. P. procumbens, 
var., Nees, Agrost. Bras. 109. P. crispum, Llanos, Fragm. 42. 
P. insularum , Steud. Svn. PL Glum. i. 61. P. calacczense, Steud. 
l.c. 65 ; Vidal, PI. Phan. Cuming. 157, and Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 287. 
P. aurelianum, Hale in Wood, Classbook, ed. iii. 787. P. viaticum , 
Salzm. ex Doell in Mart. FI. Bras. ii. ii. 155. P. marginatum , Vahl 
ex Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 33. Brachiaria prostrata , Griseb. in 
Abh. Ges. Wiss. Goett. vii. 263. 
Mozambique Distr. Zanzibar, Last ! 
Widely distributed throughout the Indo -Malayan region and tropical and 
subtropical America ; also in tropical Arabia and the Mascarenes. The state 
with pubescent spikelets is rare and appears to have been collected in India 
only. 
Considered in India to be good fodder for cattle. 
Imperfectly Imown species. 
12. Panieum (Brachiaria) rovumense, Pilg.in Engl.Jahrb. xxxiii. ! 
47. Culms decumbent, geniculate, slender, branched from the lower 
nodes. Leaf-sheaths striate, setose-pubescent (particularly the 
lower) ; ligules a fringe of dense white hairs ; blades linear-lanceolate 
narrowed towards the base, long and gradually tapering to an acute 
point, 4-6 in. by 3-3J lin. with long white spreading hairs. In- 
florescence long-exserted, 2-3J in. long, of about 6 short spreading 
secund spiciform racemes ; common axis slender, stiff, white- 
setulose. Racemes about 2J in. long ; rhachis straight, narrow, 
white-setulose ; pedicels solitary, short. Spikelets constricted into 
a short globose stipe at the base, 2 lin. long. Glumes dissimilar, 
loosely hairy, hairs white ; lower almost as long as the spikelet, 
narrow-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, 3-nerved ; upper ovate, 
caudate-acuminate, as long as the spikelet, 5-nerved. Lower 
floret almost as long as the upper glume : valve broadly ovate, 
acute, with the same vestiture as the glumes ; valvule broad, 2- 
keeled. Upper floret not quite 1J lin. long ; valve and valvule 
crustaceous, smooth, the former shortly mucronate. 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa ; in damp meadows near Koa- 
Schamba on the Rovuma, Busse, 1016. 
The description of the glumes suggests that this belongs rather to Urochloa 
than Brachiaria. 
13. Panieum borzianum, Matt, in Bol. Ort. Bot. Palermo , vii. 167. 
Annual, tufted, 2-3 ft. high. Culms ascending from a rooting 
decumbent base, many-noded, repeatedly branched, slender, angular, 
glabrous. Leaf-sheaths loose, striate, glabrous except at the 
densely ciliate margins and the pubescent or villous nodes ; blades 
lanceolate, long-attenuated to an acute point, lj-lf in. by 2J-3J lin., 
rough from appressed hairs, margins cartilaginous, minutely serrulate 
and sparingly ciliate at the base. Inflorescence of 10 alternate 
sessile racemes. Racemes 2-seriate ; rhachis narrow, striate, 
