472 



4. S. verticillata (P. de Beauv. /. c.) panicula cylindrica erecta 

 basi saepius interrupta , involucris retrorsum scabris spiculas duplo 

 superantibus, paleis floris fertilis laeviusculis florem inferiorern glu- 

 mamque superiorem aequantibus , glumam inferiorem triplo supe- 

 rantibus. 



S. verticillata. Rchb. ic. fl. germ. XI, t. 47, fig. 1465. — Eichw. Skieee p. 115. 



Panicum verticillatum. Tnw. I. c. p. 225. — Falk Beitr. II, p. 105. — Gilib. 

 Exerc. phylol. II , p. 507. — Georgi Beschr. d. Russ. II. III, 4. p. 680 

 (excl. pl. ingr.). — M. a Bieb. Fl. t. c. I, p. 49. — Jondz. Fl. lithuaji- p. 22. 

 - Besser Enum. p. 5, No. 78. — Wage Fl. polska I, p. 244. 



P. spica composita, aristis spica longioribus. Gmel. Fl. sib. I, p. 89, No. 17, II. 



Hab. in Rossia m e d i a [Lithuania (Gilib. , Jund*., Eichw.), Mazovia et Sando- 

 niir Poloniae (Wagk), Volhynia (Bess., Eichw.)] et au str ali (Trin.) [Podolia 

 (Bess., Eichw.), ad Tanain (Henning) , pr. Astrachan (Trin.)J , in Tauria! 

 (Led.) et provinciis caucasicis (M. a Bieb., Trin.) [ad fl. Terek (Falk), 

 pr. Karas et in Grusia (Hohenack. pl. exs.)], inque Sibiria (J. G. Gmel.). 0. 



1103. Pennisetum. Rich. 



Trin. Fund. p. 170 et in Mem. de VAcad. de St. Pelersb. VI Ser. 3, p. 175. — 

 Kth. Enum. 1, p. 160. 



Panicula racemosa v. contracta, pedicellis sterilibus setiformibus 

 spiculas involucrantibus, interioribus aut omnibus pIumosiA Glumae 

 superior cum flore inferiori membranacea, hic 1 — 2paleaceus. FIos 

 fertilis mucronatoacutus, paleis coriaceo-membranaceis. Styli suj)erne 

 plumosi , plerumque inferne cohaerentes. Caryopsis „libera , oblonga, 

 a dorso compressiuscula, embryone majusculo". 



Sect. Setipenna. 



Spiculae pedicellatae, involucri setis inaequilongis a basi ad medium 

 plumosis. 



1. P. orientale (Rich. in Pers. synops. I, p. 72) foliis lineari- 

 attenuatis glabris, nodis barbatis , panicula racemosa , ramis barbatis, 

 1 — 3spiciiligei*is, involucri setis interioribus spiculam duplo excedenti- 

 bus, intima paullo longiori, gluma inferiori floribus plus duplo, supe- 

 riori acuta paullo superatis, floribus mucronato-aristatis subaequilongis, 

 inferiori masculo, stylis basi connatis. 



P. orientale. Kth. Enum. I, suppl. y. 117 (descriptio exacta, ;|t spbalmate ob- 

 scurata : gluma superior cnim altera dimidio Jongior, trinervis, legatur, 

 oportet). 



P. fasciculatnm. Trin. ! I. c. p. 181 sec. specim. Szovitsiana ex prov. Persiae 

 Aderbeidschan in herb. Led. — Hohenack. ! Enum. Taliisch p. 13. (P. cen- 

 chroides ej. in Enum. Elisabethpol p. 214.) 



P. sinaicum. Decs. Ann. sc. nat. II Ser. 2, p. 11 (teste Trin. /. c. 4. suppl. 

 p. 101) sec. specim. Pinardii syriaca et Heldreichiana pr. Koniah lecta (scili- 

 cet in regione Anatoliae centrali, unde origo P. orientalis Rich.). 



Hab. in provinciis caucasicis in prov. Talusch pr. Scluischa! (Hohenack.). 4. 



