Pennisetum.] clxxiii. gbaminb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 89 



C. bulbosus, Fresen. ex Steud. I. c. C. pennisetiformis, Hochst. ex Steud. I c. 109. 

 U setigerus, Eerl. Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8649 A. ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. Pi. 162. C. 

 appaoeus, Tmseh in Flora XX. (1837) 57.— The Paujab, Upper Gangetic Plain, and 

 ^eccan Peninsula, Arabia, Africa, Madeira. A nearer approach to Cenchrus than 

 r. cewhroides, but at once distinguishable from that genus by the filiform tips of 

 ne bristles of the involucel. It occurs here and there in the same areas as P. 

 »nc/iroides, and passes into it. 



^J% **• Prleuril, Xunth Eevis. Gram. ii. 411, t. 119, Enum. PI. i. 

 J:' TfF- 119; habit of P. cenchroides, but involucel nearly twice as 

 ^rge, the longer bristles | in. long, the spikelets one or two sessile and 



L 1 r^°°i® °^ ^- ^t^^d- Syn, Gram. 105. Cenchrus macrostachyus, 

 hochst. ex Steud. I. c, 109. 



DrsTJiJ*^.^/*" ' ^'•""iwond (Eerh. Duthie). BAJPUTAif A ; at Jeypoor, Duthie.— 

 "^oittis. Arr. trop. 



Wch'rf ^^"^''u "^^^ ^'^'"* *"'^ slender, erect, or short prostrate stout and much 

 filiiorm t- geniculrtte leafy branches. Leaves 1-8 in., rigid, narrow with 



W Z^T'a ^'''^'^^'■'^lous ; sheath inflated ; ligule of very fine hairs. Spikes on 

 bristles V "'i ^^'^"^^ included peduncles, 2-4 in. long, 1^ in. diam. across the 

 inyolupplu v.l' ,' ^^^^^^ slender, geniculately flexuous, compressed, quite smooth; 

 gl- 1 ■ IT - tTt ' ^J^^^^^^ 1 i°- flexuous, dilated and ciliate below. Spikelets i in. ; 

 111 bntr t>r 1 '^° ovate- lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate, 5-nerved; IV like 

 troadlv Tk- , °^®''> ^-nerved ; palea like the gl., 2-nerved. Anthers linear. Oram 

 ^ °^bicular-oblong, cuspidate, flattened. 



p DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



"•'ffeiii^cpnt^-^^^' ^P^^»9- Sj/st. i. 3:.3 (to which Grisebach refers latiatum ,Kl) 

 »ot degcrihTH "^ u *''® description from lanatum m the coloured set*, which are 

 ^nge of ?^! T '"'""'^I'f'l, and in the habitat, Nepal, which is far to the east of the 

 «ChadS-r;.^P'^"e'^''» specimen is in all probability from Wallich, who 



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^^ 15. CENCKRUS 



'^Sa't^'fii?^"'''^^-'^"'^' ^"^^ involucels composed of subulate hard 



below 



'""^subtropTcar ^^ bj erect or squarrose bristles.-Species few, tropical 



'^''er 8n^.l?°'^*» -^^'aji. i^;. Ind.i. 233; in volucels rounded at the base 

 J'^^ened m ^°''°^^*e.lanceoIate erect puberulous dorsally flat with 



Wiffht 



i*<=Wt"nT' T??; ^>. ^- b«lbifer. Joc/.si e» ^oi«.. Fl. Orient v. 448 

 p"^'- P 4K^- ^«^- ^- 8854 B.C. C. montanus, Nees xn Boyle III. 



ff^'i^eYakiB t^'/"'^^"fl'- -^^^^^^ G^n'w- 1. 48, Fodd. Gra^s. N, Ind. 16 C. 

 my-Norn\f'{r^-. ^^«'»- ^^ ^««. ^.c. C. 0. Schimpen, ffochst ex 

 *^(«o»iea) o • "^'- 317- C. tripsacoides, J5r. i» Salt Toy. Abyss. App. 

 fhe P.„. "i^iflorus, E^ri. »n*. «e Boiss. I.e. 



8 "^ 



&c The CouCAN and SciND 

 7* Ac— DiSTBiB. Beluchistan 



'""""' °f'4tf W ''"'*• ^-24 5°-. simple. Leaves narrow, glabrous or hairy, 



^'^ l>auy. 5^ij^3 2-4 in., solitary, cylindric, green ; rachis flexuous. 



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