CXLVri. GIIAMINE^. 919 



Inflorescence a narrowlj' pyramidal panicle; bristles of 



involucel 3-6 ; spikelets t'^-tV in. long 4. 8. intermedia. 



Bristles of in vol ucel with deflexed teeth h, S, verticillata. 



1. Setaria plicata, T. CooJce. Perennial; stem 1-8 ft. long, erect 

 or ascending from a woody brauchiug rootstock, stout, leafy ; nodes 

 strigillose ; internodes 2-6 in. long. Leaves 6-24 by |-3 in., linear- 

 lanceolate, finely acuminate, chartaceous, glabrous or sparsely hairy, 

 plicate between tlie numerous veins, base narrow ; sheaths smooth or 

 hispid, the margins naked, or ciliate near the top only ; ligule of long 

 hairs. Panicle 1-2 ft. long, contracted, nodding ; I'hachis stout, 

 angular, scabrid ; branches usually alternate, distant (the lower 3-4 in. 

 long), fihform, suberect, bearing short capillary few-flowered branchlets 

 and bristle-like flowerless ones. Spikelets ^ in. long, sessile or shortly 

 pedicellate, ovoid, acute or apiculate, glabrous. Glumes 4 ; lower 

 invol.-glume broadly ovate, obtuse, 5-nerved, membranous, k as long as 

 the spikelet ; upper invol.-glume rather more than i as "long as the 

 upper floral glume, ovate, obtuse, 7-nerved, membrauous; iower floral 

 glume slightly longer than the upper, ovate, shortly apiculate, mem- 

 branous, empty, paleate or not, 5-nerved, the palea when present 

 small, hyaline, narrowly ovate, acute ; upper floral glume crustaceous, 

 ovate-oblong, acute or shortly apiculate, shghtly transversely striate, 

 pale-yellow, with strongly involute margins ; palea ovate, acute, nearly 

 as long as the glume, faintly transversely striate and with iucurved 

 membranous margins. Panicum iMcatwm, Lam. Ilhistr. v. 1 (1791) 

 p. 171; Hook. f. El. B. I. v. 7, p. 55; Trim. PL Ceyl. v. 5, p. 157; 

 Jacq. Eclog. Gram. v. 1, t. 1 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (19U1) p. 434; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1176. P. nepahnse, Sprang. Syst. 

 V. 1 (1825) p. 321 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 291.— Flowers : Nov. 



KoNKAN : western side of the GliAts, Balzell &,• Gibson ; Parel (Bombay), Lisbon. 

 Sometimes cultivated as an ornamental grass in gardens. — Distrib. Throughout the 

 moister hilly parts of India ; Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, China, Malay Islands. 



2. Setaria rhachitricha, T. Coole. Annual ; stems tufted, erect, 

 8-24 in. long, glabrous ; nodes softly pubescent. Leaves 3-8 by |-1 

 iu., oblong-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, finely acuminate, flaccid, 

 glabrous or sparsely hairy, many-veined, plicate between the veins ; 

 sheaths with ciliate margins ; ligule a tuft of hairs. Panicle 2-6 in. 

 long, pyramidal; rhachis of panicle angular, hairy; branches 1-lg iu. 

 long, alternate, spreading, with bristle- like flowerless scabrid branchlets 

 at the base of the spikelets, much longer than the spikelets, 1 (rarely 2) 

 to each pedicel ; rhachis of branches angular, sparsely hairy. Spikelets 

 numerous, glabrous, ^ in. long, densely or loosely imbricate, ovate, 

 subacute, dorsally compressed, pale with green nerves, articulated on 

 short scaberulous pedicels. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume orbicular- 

 oblong, -^ in. long, hyaline, obscurely nerved or nerveless ; upper 

 invol.-glume -^ in. long, broadly ovate, subobtuse, 5-nerved, thinly 

 membranous; lower floral glume about equal to the upper invol.-glume, 

 similar, 5-nerved, epaleate ; upper floral glume elliptic-oblong, subacute, 

 coriaceous, white, transversely striate, -^ in. long, with strongly involute 

 margins ; palea as long as the glume, elliptic, with involute membranous 

 margins. Panicum rhachitrichum, llochst. in Plora, v. 27 (1844) p. 254 ; 



