234 CHINA. [Gramineee. 



culmo adscendente ramosissimo, vaginis foliisque lanceolato-linearibus glabris. Trin. MSS. 

 N. abE. Agrost. Bras. 2. p. 199. Kunth, En. 1. p. 100. — P. ramosum. Koen. in Herb. Banks, 

 (fide herb. Trin.) — P. virgatum. Roxb. (fide ejusd.) 

 Hab. Circa Macao urbem ; Mittett. 



Est species distinctissima, habitu e capillarium. et virgatorum indole mixto. Culmus 1-2 pedes altus. 

 Nodi glabri. Vagina glabra, etiam margine, ore solo barbato, cingulo luteo infra laminam, ut in P. miliari, 

 notata. Folia 4 pollices longa, glabra, margine scabriuscula. Paniculm rami graciles, spatio quodam supra 

 basin ramificati, compressi. Ramuli adpressi, demum patuli. Pedicelli uniflori, spicula lineam longa duplo 

 saepe longiores, uti ramuli flexuosi, primum pallidi, setate purpurascentes. Quod ad spiculas, si demis mag- 

 nitudinem, accedit P. miliari et colorato, sed inflorescentia longe differt, P. capillars magis referens. 



[Roxburgh has no where described a P. virgatum, nor attached that name to any of his drawings ; we 

 presume, therefore, that he must have merely given it incidentally to some of Koenig's specimens in the 

 Banksian Herbarium.] 



6. V.glaucum; racemo spicato cylindrico, involucellis subbifloris multisetis spiculis duplo 

 longioribus rigidis flavis antrorsum scabris, flosculo masculo bivalvi hermaphrodite) undula- 

 to-rugoso, culmo adscendente sub inflorescentia anguloso, foliis culmo brevioribus lineari- 

 lanceolatis basi barbatis. Linn. — Willd. En. Hort. Ber. 2. p. 1030. N. abE. Agrost. Bras. 

 2. p. 240. (cum syn.) Trin. 1c. Gram. t. 195. Roxb. El. Ind. 1. p. 284. (ed. Wall.) 1. p. 

 287. — Setaria glauca. Roem. et Sch. Syst. 2. p. 490. — /3. spiculis demum purpurascentibus 

 et purpureo-fuscis. — P. purpurascens. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1. p. 110. Kunth, 

 En. 1. p. 151. 



Hab. £. circa Macao urbem ; G. H. Vachell, n. 45. b. 



Involucellis brevioribus rigidioribus spiculisque majoribus facile distinguitur a P. penicillato. 



7. P. peniciltatum ; racemo spicato cylindrico elongato, ramulis bifloris, involucellis uni- 

 floris multi (6-)-setis spicula triplo quadruplove longioribus gracilibus antrorsum scabris, 

 flosculo hermaphrodito mucrone incurvo transversim undulato-rugoso, neutro masculove 

 bivalvi, culmo erecto glabro sub racemo angulato-sulcato, foliis lineari-elongatis supra 

 glaucis scabris basi plerumque barbatis. Herb. Willd. — N. ab E. Agrost. Bras. 2. p. 242. — 

 P. glaucum. Kunth, En. 1. p. 149. (nee Auct. Europ.) Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 

 I. p. 109. 



Hab. Circa Macao urbem ; Millett. Vachell, n. 37. b. 



8. P. Italicum; racemo terminali erecto vel nutante decomposito lobato-spiciformi elonga- 

 to, rachi hirsuta, racemis partialibus confertissimis ovatis oblongisve densifloris, involucellis 

 sub singula spicula unisetis spicula triplo et ultra longioribus flexuosis antrorsum (i. e. re- 

 trorsum tangenti) scabris, flosculo inferiori neutro valvula superiori minuta, hermaphrodito 

 subtiliter punctulato, culmo erecto ramoso vaginisque laevibus, foliis late linearibus supra 

 scaberrimis ligulae loco stride barbatis. Linn. Sp. PL p. 83. Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 302. (ed. 

 Wall.) I. p. 305. Trin. Ic. Gram. t. 198.— Setaria Italica. Kunth, En. I. p. 153.— Penni- 

 setum Italicum. Br. Prod. 1. p. 195. 



Hab. Circa Macao urbem et in insulis vicinis ; Millett. G. H. Vachell. 



