020 CXLTII. GKAMlNEiE. 



Hook. f. n. B. I. V. 7, p. 56 ; Woodr. in Jourii. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 434; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1170. — Elowers : Oct. 



S. M. Country: Londa, Gammie ex Woodrow. — Distrib. India (Subtropical 

 Himalaya, W. Peninsula) ; Tropical Africa. 



I have not seen any specimens from the Bombay Presidency ; there are none in 

 Herb. Kew. 



3. Setaria glauca, Beauv. Agrost. (1812) p. 51. Stem 1-2 ft. 

 high, erect or ascending, simple or branched ; nodes glabrous, the lower 

 rooting. Leaves 4-12 by | in., linear, finely acuminate, fiat, glabrous 

 or sparsely hairy, with scabrid margins, base usually I'ounded ; sheaths 

 smooth ; ligule a ridge of hairs. Inflorescence a cylindric densely 

 flowered spike-like raceme 1-5 in. long; bristles of involucel 6-12, 

 pale or reddish-brown, ^-^ in. long, with very short erect or spreading 

 teeth. Spikelets numerous, closely set along the rhachis of the spike, 

 g in. long, ellipsoid, glabrous. Glumes 4 ; lower invol. -glume less than 

 I as long as the spikelet, broadly ovate, often shortly apiculate, 3- 

 nerved, hyaline ; upper invol. -glume slightly longer than the lower, 

 broadly ovate or suborbicular, hyaline, 5-nerved ; lower floral glume 

 thinly membranous, as long as the upper one, S-nerved, paleate, empty 

 or male, the palea hyaline ; upper floral glume coriaceous, broadly 

 elliptic, obtuse, dorsally convex, transversely rugose, pale. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 7, p. 78 ; Ualz. & Gibs. p. 293 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 162 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 435 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1170; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 546.— Flowers : Oct. Veen. 

 Koldra. 



KoNKAN : Sfocks I ; Thana, Lishoa. Deccan : Mahableshwar common, Bahell <^ 

 Gibson, Woodrow, Cooke ! ; Nasik, Lishoa. Gujarat : Baroda, Cooke ! — Distrib. 

 More or less throughout India ; Ceylon, most warm temperate and tropical regions. 



4. Setaria intermedia, Boem. Sf Schult. Syst. v. 2 (1817) p. 489. 

 Stem 2-3 ft. long, slender, erect or ascending ; nodes glabrous, the 

 lower often rooting. Leaves 2-9 by g-| in., linear-lanceolate, finely 

 acuminate, thin, flat, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, \A'ith scaberulous 

 margins, base narrow ; sheaths long, smooth, the mouth villous, the 

 margins ciliate especially in the upper part. Panicle 4-6 in. long, 

 narrowly pyramidal; rhachis glabrous, grooved ; branches short, distant 

 below, rather crowded above, dense-flowered ; bristles of involucel 3-6, 

 about \ in. long, very slender, flexuous, studded with minute erect 

 teeth, pale. Spikelets -jVtV ^'i- ^o""? ovoid, subacute. Glumes 4 ; 

 lower invol. -glume orbicular-oblong or ovate, about ^ as long as the 

 spikelet, hyaline, faintly 3-nerved ; ujiper invol.-glume about | as long 

 as the spikelet, broadly ovate, subacute, hyaline, 5-nen'ed ; lower floral 

 glume about equalling the upper, broadly ovate, thinly membranous, 

 5-nerved, paleate, empty, the palea hyaline ; upper floral glume broadly 

 ovate or suborbicular, acute, coriaceous, very concave, transversely 

 rugulose all over, yellowish-brown ; ])alea elliptic, subacute. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 7, p. 79 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 163 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 v, 13 (1901) p. 435 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1170; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 6, part 2, p. 546. — Flowers : Aug.-Oct. Vern. Pandar. 



Tolerably common throughout the Presidency. Konkan : Law ex Woodrow. 

 Deccan: in cultivated fields about Poonn, Jncqurmout, S/Jo! S. M. Country: 

 Peltrmim, Kitcliie, «3'J !— DisTRin. Througiiout India; Ceylon, temperate and 

 tropical regions. 



