Panicwn]. 
GRAMItfEiE. 
437 
Perennial. Stems 3-4 feet long, decumbent at the base. Upper sheaths 
4-5 in. long, densely clothed with conspicuous spreading hairs ; blade 
lanceolate, acuminate, \-l foot long, 1-14 in. broad at the middle, 
conspicuously plicate, more or less hairy, narrowed to the base. 
Panicle \-l foot long, the branches short, ascending or spreading; 
pedicels very short ; spikelets oblong, acute, in. long, many sub- 
tended by a single long flexuose bristle. A. Braun in Walp. Ann. vi. 
947. P. Thouarsianum, Nees in Steud. Oram. G2. Setaria mauritiana, 
Spreng. ; Kunth, Enum. i. 156 ? 
Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Seychelles, common in fields and woods. Round 
the world in the tropics under many varieties, for an account of which A. Braun’s 
paper above quoted may he consulted. Herbe aux Ane*. 
# P. acariferum , Trin. Ic. t. 87 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 125 (Thvsanolaena 
acarifera, Arn. and Nees in Nova Acta, xvii. Suppl. i. 180 ; Melica 
latifolia, Roxb. El. Ind. i. 330 ; Bojer, Hort. Maur. 368), a native of 
the East Indies is naturalised in Mauritius, at Plaines Wilhelms and 
Moka. It is a perennial, 6-10 feet high, with terete woody stems, 
leaves a foot or more long lanceolate reedy 1J-2 in. broad rounded at 
the base, panicle above a foot long, with very numerous ascending 
slender decompound branches, spikelets glabrous oblong acute in. 
long in dense deltoid heads on short branchlets. Barnbou naine, Bambou 
de Chine . 
13. P. auritum, Presl ; Kunth , Enum. i. 113. Perennial, glabrous 
in all its parts. Stems erect, 2-3 feet long. Leaves about half a 
dozen ; upper sheaths 3-4 in. long ; blade 4-6 in. long, linear, acute. 
Panicle \-l foot long, rhomboid or deltoid, with numerous ascending or 
spreading decompound branches ; pedicels very short ; spikelets oblong, 
acute, pale green, under T \ in. long. P. patens, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 365, 
not Linn. 
Mauritius, in the damp forests of the Pouce range, etc. Tropical Asia, not 
Africa. Allied to P. avtidotale , Retz. 
14. P. madagascariense, Spreng. ; Kunth , Enum. i. 131. Stems 
2 feet long, geniculate at the base, then ascending. Sheaths terete, 
glabrous ; blade linear, glabrous, 4-6 in. long, £ in. broad. Panicle 
8-10 in. long, the branches spreading and decompound ; pedicels ex- 
ceeding the oblong acute glabrous obsoletely nerved spikelets. Steud. 
Oram. 85. P. airoides, Flugge ; Nees in Mart. Bras. ii. 175. 
Mauritius. Also Madagascar. I have not seen this species. 
15. P. parvifolium, Lam. ; Kunth , Enum. i. 109. Perennial, with 
vride-trailing much-branched stems, ascending at the end ; nodes very 
numerous. Sheaths about half an inch long, pilose at the throat, 
usually glabrous on the outside ; blade lanceolate, acute, spreading, 
| in. long, 4 in- broad, rounded at the base, glabrous. Panicle 
rhomboid, about an inch long, with several slender slightly compound 
