Setaria.] clxxiii. oramine^. (J, D. Hooker.) 81 



Sjst Ed. X. 870 ; Trin. 8p. Gram. Ic. t. 203. Pennisetum vlrlde, Br. 

 Prodr. 195. 



Temperate Himalaya and Western Tibet, ascending to 11,000 ft, but not 

 ^mmon; rare on the plains of India. Nilghibi Hills? (perhaps introduced) 



fu^H^S** ^^^'^- "^aJ^^^A. n. 8640 D.).— Distrib. Temp, and subtrop. regions of 

 the Old World. 



-.'^'*°^^'' Habit of 8. £flauca, but spike-like panicle more interrupted; bristles 



l^^™*^^' ^-6> usually ghort, green or reddish; spikelets larger and more ovoid, 



Served ^^^^^^ smooth. GL i = about-i III, acute j II and III subequal, 5-7- 



1 f'^f,*'*®*^^*'*^^,. Hook,/,; leaves long narrow pubescent, peduncles 



ongate filiform scaberulous, spike-like panicle elongate rachis capillary 



ZP% ^/ Pubescent, spikelets minute solitary or in distant shortly 



P^ucelled clusters of 2-3, bristles 1-2 capillary most minutely scaberulous, 



S^'IV transversely rugulose. 



Ceylon, Gardner (n, 968). 



^^uole plant 18 in. high, flaccid, very slender ; stems densely tufted. Leaves 

 'ToJ^^^'l^^^^^ acuminate, pubescent on both surfaces, base narrow; sheath 

 w, mouth villous. Peduncles 3-4 in., quite erect, rachid hardly flexuous, pedicels 

 '= i JTt\ *^^^^ ^^®^^' ^^^^" solitary. Spikelets subglobose, glabrous, green ; gl. I 

 IV 8nh ,^^y ^^^^e> 3-nerved ; II shorter than IV, 5-7-nerved ; III as long as 

 ^J otW .'"^'^^e*!! Palea large hyaline ; IV pale, coriaceous, acute.— Quite unlike 



lana, HooL f. ; perennial, tall, erect, leaves linear- 

 unded, panicle narrowly pyramidal, branches short or 

 ew very rigid, spikelets ovoid, glumes strongly uerved, 



, '• a. Fori) 



^ceolate base 



thie Grass. 

 ; Serb. Ind. 



Nees ex 



^«'- n. 8704. 



£« -'n ^'^°"**- ("^a; H. B. & K.). Panicum Forbesianum, J\ees ea 

 & """• ^^' Anderss. in Walp. Ann. vi. 948.— Panicum, Wall 



T 



^ ft.^*Jt? ^^"AiAYA ; from Nepal, Wallich, to Mishmi, GriSltli, ascending to 



The CONCAN, Lishoa 



,,T^r panipjg „j,j ~, *"^'= '""re in nabit tUan any otner cuurac 



^ to Panicur^ 7 • ^^^** ^«^^y ">'ich narrowed at the base 



^"'"»'^«'», but the leaves are not plicate. 



. 8. Pc^ ^NDKTEBMINABLK, AC, SPECIES. 



^'* ^Of . Kf' £""** -S^". Gram. i. 47. Snum. i. 157 = Panicum caneseen.. 



P ^»niTA ;?"' ^- ^"«'^- *« 2?o^. Ze,7. xix. (18G1) 323. 



Not an Indian grass. 



Panicum hirtum, Roth ?,.c..46. 



r^hloa ? SL %'^ '• ^1^- Opli.iueuus ? hii'tu8> Eoem. <t' Sch. S>jst. ii. 4S5. 

 Voi, vn '''^^> Sohult. Mant. ii. 27ft. 



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