88 CLXXiiL QBAMiXEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pennisetum. 



Stem erect, often stout and fastigiately branched at the nodes, green or purplish. 

 Leaves 6-10 by J-f in., flat, flaccid, glabrous or hairy. Spikes few or many, 2-4 

 in., usually purplish brown; rachis slendsr, deeply pitted; involucels close-set, at 

 length spreading j bristles laxly but copiously ciliate below the middle, all slender 

 and free at the base ; gl. II. suddenly or gradually cuspidate j III with two obtuse 

 lateral teeth at the tip and an acute median. Styles free at the base. — Possibly 

 not indigenous in India. 



10. P. borbonlcuxu. Kunth Bevis, Gram. I 259, t. 41, Enum. 

 Fl i- 162, SuppL 118; habit, &c. of P. setosum, but spikes longer 

 1 in. diam, across the bristles, spikelets \ in., gl. II much longer tha-n 

 III acuminate. Gymnothrix Thuarii, Beauv. Agrost. 59. G. Thouarii, 

 Steud, Norn. Ed. II. ; 386. Panicum longisetum, Poir. Encyc. iv. 275 

 (Excl. Syn, Beauv.). — Pennisetum sp. Wall. Gat. n. 8645. 



Bengal; at Serampore, Carey; margins of fields, Ac, Kurz, Silhet, Griffii^' 

 — DisTEiB. Bourbon. 



A very doubtful native of India. 



** Inner bristles of involucel dilated below, their hases confluent in a 

 coriaceous disk. 



11. P. cenchroides, Bich. in Pers. Syn. i. 72 ; peduncle and rachis 

 of spike glabrous, spikelets ^ in. 1-3 in each pedicelled involucel, gl. I-j 

 ■| III ovate acuminate nerveless, 11 = 1 lY ovate acuminate l-nerved, 

 111 oblong truncate 5-nerved, IV lanceolate truncate or cuspidate. Beauv, 

 Agrost. 69, t. 13, f. 5 ; Trin.. Fund. Agrost. 171, t, xv., Diss. ii. 69, Pan, Gen, 

 W; Nees Agrost. Bras. 184, Fl. Afr. Austr. 70, inLinnsea, vii. 162; Knnih 

 Enum. PI. i. 162 ; Suppl. 119 ; Parlat. FL Ital. i. 108, in Wehb. ^ Berth. 

 Phjt. Canar. iii. III. 380, t. 244 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 105 ; Boiss. Fl OHent^- 

 445; Baker FLMaurit.UU WalLCat.u.m4Q; Aitchis.Gat.PanJab. P1162; 

 Lishoa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1891) 338 ; Duthie Grass. iV.F. 

 Ind. 10, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 12, 13, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 17. P. cihare, 

 Link. Hort. BeroL i. 213; Coss. ^ Dur. FL Alger, ii. 38. P. incomptum. 

 Nees ex Steud. I. c. 105 {ex descr.). P. distylum, Guss. Ind. Sem. Sort* 

 Bocc. 8, Fl, Sic. Prodr. i. 12 ; BertoL FL ItaL \. 393. P. petreum, Ste}Ki. 

 Z.c. 106. PP. Vahlii, Kuntli Revis. i. 49. P. rufescens, Spreng. Syst i- 

 302; Funfh LI c.c. 162, ii. 117. Steud. L e. Cenchrus Anjania, B:erb. 

 Ham. ex Wall. Cat n. 8649 B. 0. ciliarls, Utin. Sp. PL 302; Desf. i^- 

 Atlant. ii. 387. C. digynus, Schrel. ex Boiss. L c. 449. C. longifohus, 

 Hochit. ex Steud. I.e. C. mntabilis, Wight. Herb. C. pennisetiformis* 

 Hochst. et Steud. ex Boiss. l. c. 448, C. rufescens, Desf. L c. 388. 

 Panicum vulpinum, Willd. Enum. Hart. BeroL 1031. 



Plains and low hills throughout Westeen India, from Kashmir to the Upper 

 Gangetic plain and southwd. (Absent from Ceylon.) — Disteib. Westwd. to Sicil/i 

 tro}', Afr. and the Canaries. 



Stems tufted, 6-18 in., erect or decumbent and much branched from the hfl«e, 

 stout or slender, leafy, or ascending from a branching often nodose rootetock, the 

 fihertths of which are often woolly. Leaves 6-10 by ^-J in,, glabrous hairy of 

 villous. Spikes 1^-4 in., pale, rarely purplish; peduncle often flexuous ; rachis 

 ficahernlous ; involucels subsessile, outer bristles slender, squarrosely spreading j i""*^ 

 twice as long as the spikelets, thickened and ciliate below, filiform flexuous and 



brid nbove. Spikelets 3, polygamous, gl. Ill male or Rometimes fem. with »" 



obcord.»te ovary; IV coriaceous; styles nearly free at the base. , 



Van echinoides; inner bristles of the involucel shortly connate above the ba^^^ 

 disk. Cenchrus echinoidoF, Wight ex Steud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 317 ; Syn. Gram. 10^' 



