73 CLxxTii. GRAMiNEzE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Setaria. 



i III; II = or sliorter than IV; III neuter, rarely paleate and malp, 

 5-7-nerved; IV coriaceous, plano-convex, bisexxial, triandroua- Styles 

 distinct. Grain free within the hardened gl. and palea. — Species aboat 

 10, temperate and tropical. 



Distinguished from Panicum by the involucel, but connected with it by F. 

 plicatum and jS'. Forb€siana\ and from Pennisetxim by the persistent invohicels and 

 articulate deciduous spikt-lets. The species are for the most p^rt difficult of limitation, 

 and mach of the synonymy requires revision. 



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1. S. itallca^ Beauv, Agrost, 51 ; leaves broad, panicle dense inclined 

 or nodding simple and cylindric or lobed or compound, bristles few smooth 

 or with minute spreading barbs, gl. 1 oblonsr or sub^rlobose nearly smootn. 

 Kunth Revis. Gram. 146, Emtm, PL i. 153, SitppL 108; Reichb. I^ 

 Fl. Germ, t, 47; T. Nees Gen. FL Germ. Monocot.i. n. 22; Wall. Ca<. ". 

 8643; Trim, Cat. Ce^jl. PL 107; Aitchis. Gat. Punjab, PL 162; Duthe 

 Gra.^s. V.IT, Ind. 8, Field & Gard. Crops, 5, t. 25, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 15; 

 Miq. Fl.Ind, Bat. iii. 467; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 554. S. asiatioM, 

 Hort. ex Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 29. S. compacta, Scliur. Enum. K 

 Transylv. 967, Indexi S. erythrosperma, flavida, persica & violace", 

 Hornen. ex Beichb. I, r. S. ffermanica, Beanv. Agrost. 51, 1. 13. S. globulan^ 

 Presl. Rel. Haenk. 407 ; Miq. I. c. S. macrocbaeta, Sch. Mant. ii. 274. 8- 

 maritima, R. & S. Syst. ii. 492. S. melinis, Link, ex Sieud. Norn. Ed. II* 

 ii. 574. S. panis, Jessen Deutschl. Graes. 248. Panicum asgyptiacum * 

 sibiricura, Hort. ex Roevi. ^' Sch. Syst. ii. 493. P. asiaticum, mel-fruLjtitn, 

 & serotinum, /Jor^. ex Schult. Mant. ii. 698, 599. P. attenuatura, aetaceum 

 & setosum, Hort. ex Trin. Gram. Panic, 166. P. brevisetum, Doell F'- 

 Grossli. Bad. 233. P. compactum, Kit. in Schult. Ouster. Fl. Ed. II. i-21'-- 

 P. elongatnm, Salish. Prodr. 18. P. germanicum & indicum, Mill. Gd^i* 

 Diet. Ed. 8, n. 1 & 3. P. elobulare, Steud. Norn. I. c. 51 ; Syn. Gram. Ic- 



P. glomeratum, Afneneh. Meth. 207. P. intermedium & ervthrospermuni 

 Vahl ex Horwm. Hort. Hafn. \. 82. P. italicum, Linn. Sp. PI. 56, JIo' 

 I.e. t. 314; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 188, 189; Roxb. Fl Ind. i. 302; Stewt 

 Syn. Gram. 51; Dalz. & Gibs^. Bomb. Fl. Siq-)pl. 98; Wight Cat. n. 16^- 

 P. miliaceum, Blanco FL Filip. Ed. I. 39. P. maritimum, HorL ex Lamh 

 Enri/cl. iv. 737. P. pumilnm, Liyik Enum. HorL BeroL 76. P. vulgare, 

 Wa'llr. in Linnoia, xiv. (1840) 542, Pennisetum macrocbaetum, /^^?- 

 Fclog. Gram. iii. 36, t 25; Kunth Enum. i. 152.— Setaria, WalL Cat. »• 

 8651. — Rheede Hort. Mai. xii. t. 79. 



Hab. Cult, throughout India, and up to 6000 ft. in the Himalaya.— DistbIB. 

 Most wjirm, temperate and tropicnl couutr'es. 



Stem 2-5 ft., usually branched, tufted, rooting towards the base, often robust. 



Annaal. Leaves often long broad, margins retrorsuly hispid, sheath smootn» 

 mouth bearded. Sp'fciform panicle 3-5 in. long, very variable in diameter, num^^ 

 and length of bristle:^ of involucel, and size and form of gl. IV.— Possibly a cultivate'i 

 form of S. viridis, but nothing is known of its origin, which reaches back to t"^ 

 period of the Swiss Lake-dwellings. It hns from time iinmeniorial been cultivat^^ 

 in Asia, and one form is regarded by the natives as indigenous in Japan a"^ 

 China (see Du Candolle I'Origine des Plantes Cultivees, p. 303). Dutbie a"^ 

 Stewart regard some small forms as indigenous in India, but they are more probabl> 

 escapes or their progeny. 



2. S. erlauca, Beauv. Agrost. 61; panicle spiciform cylindric, ^^' 



