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4. Pennisetum pedicellatum, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersh. ser. 6, 

 V. 3, part 2 (1835) p. 184. Annual^ stems 1-3 ft. long, branched 

 from the base and above, leafy. Leaves 6-10 by -^-| iu., flat, flaccid, 

 glabrous or sparsely hairy ; sheaths glabrous ; ligule a shortly ciliate 

 membrane. Kaceraes cylindric, 2-5 in. long, dense-flowered ; rhachis 

 glabrous or nearly so, notched ; iuvolucel sessile ; outer bristles few, 

 slender, short, about ^ ni. long ; inner bristles numerous, the longest 

 reaching | in. long (or more), densely villous below the middle, unequal, 

 usually pale, free to the base. Spikelets ^ in. long, usually solitary 

 within the involucel, shortly pedicellate. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.- 

 glume very small, woolly ; upper invol. -glume oblong-lanceolate, 

 apiculate, ^ in. long, 7-nerved, hyaline ; lower floral glume g in. long, 

 oblong, truncate, 3-toothed, 5-nerved, hyaline ; upper floral glume 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, with a tirabriately ciliate tip, rather shorter than 

 the lower' floral glume, coriaceous, smooth, shining; palea as long as 

 the glume, lanceolate, toothed. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 86; Woodr. iu Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. y. 13 (1901) p. 435 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1169. Pennisehmi 

 lanuginonim, Hochst. in Plora, v. 25, part 1 (1842), Beibl. i. p. 133 ; 

 Lisboa, in Journ. Bomb, Nat. v. 5 (1891) p. 339.— Plowers : Oct. 



Deccan : Lishoa. Gujarat: Lisboa; Rajkot (Katbiawar), Woodrow. — Distrib. 

 India (Behar, Rajputaiia, W. Peninsula); Tropical Africa. 



5. Pennisetum setosum, Rich, in Pers. Syn. v. 1 (1805) p. 72 

 {exclud. syn.). Annual ; stem erect, often fastigiately branched at the 

 nodes, green or purplish. Leaves 6-10 by 5— | in., linear, finely 

 acuminate, glabrous or hairy; sheaths glabrous; ligule a line fringed 

 M ith rather long soft hairs. Eacemes 2-4 in. long, usually purplish- 

 brown ; rhachis glabrous, notched; involucel sessile; bristles unequal, 

 the outer not ciliate, short, about -1- in. long, the inner longer, ciliate 

 below the middle with long silky hairs (1 of the inner bristles is often 

 much longer than the olhera, reaching | in., the others \-^ in. long). 

 Spikelets 4 in. long, solitary within the involucel. Glumes 3 or 4 ; 

 lower invoi.-glume minute or wanting ; upper invol. -glume \ in. long, 

 ovate-oblong, gradually or suddenly cuspidate, 5-nerved, hyaline ; 

 lower floral glume g in. long, oblong, obtuse, with 2 subobtuse lateral 

 and an acute median tooth at the apex, 5-nerved, paleate, male, the 

 palea -^ iu. long, narrowly oblong, hyaline; upper floral glume -^ in. 

 long, ovate-obloug, truncate, fimbriately ciliate at the tip, coriaceous, 

 smooth and shining ; palea as long as the glume, oblong, truncate, 

 toothed or ciliate at the tip. Anthers nearly -Jj in. long. IStyles long, 

 reaching g in., much exserted bevond the spikelet. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 87; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 435 ; Prain, Beng. 

 PI. p. 1169.— Flowers: Dec. 



SI^D: TTydcrabacl, Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Behar, W. Bengal, Ujjper Gangetic 

 plain, W. Peninsula); Tropical Africa and America. 



6. Pennisetum cenchroides, Rich, in Pers. Syn. v. 1 (1805) p. 72. 

 Perennial ; stems 1 lifted, ()-18 in. long, erect, or decumbent and much- 

 branched from the base, stout or slender, leafy, or asceiuling from a 

 branched often nodose rootstock. Leaves 4-10 by ^-\- in., linear, 

 ta])ering to a fine point, glabrous or hairy. Kacemea cylindric, dense, 

 1-4 by ^-| in., pale or purplish ; rhachis linely scaberulous ; involucels 



