CXLVII. GEAMINE^. 921 



5. Setaria verticillata, Beauv. Agrost. (1812) p. 51. Annual; 

 sbems erect or ascending, 1-3 ft. long, stout or slender,- leafy, more or 

 less branched, glabrous. Leaves 3-10 by ^-| in., thin, flat, glabrous or 

 sparsely hairy and scaberulous, linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering to a 

 fine point, base usually narrow ; sheaths smooth, striate ; ligule a fringe 

 of hairs. Panicle 1-5 in. long, erect or curved, spike-like, cylindric or 

 oblong, coarsely bristly ; bristles of the involucel 1 or few, -^g in. long, 

 closely studded with conspicuous downward-pointing teeth. Spikelets 

 -^ in. long, ellipsoid, obtuse, glabrous. Glumes 4 ; lower invol.-glume 

 -^ in. long, ovate, acute, hyaline, faintly 3-nerved ; upper invol.-glume 

 about as long as the spikelet, ovate, subacute, thinly membranous, 5- 

 nerved ; lower floral glume similar to the upper invol.-glume, 5-nerved, 

 empty, paleate or not, the palea when present hyaline, very small ; 

 upper floral glume elliptic-oblong, plano-convex, subobtuse, coriaceous, 

 straw-colored, faintly striatulate and with incurved margins ; palea as 

 long as the glume, coriaceous, elliptic, faintly striatulate. Fl. B. I. v. 7, 

 p. 80 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 294; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 435 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 163; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1170 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 549. — Flowers : Dec. Veen. Dangani. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! Gujarat : Baroda, Wbodrow ; Morvi (Kathiawar), Woodrow. 

 SiND : Stocks, 649! — Dxstrib. Throughout India; Ceylon, temperate and tropical 

 regions. 



Setaria italica, Beauv. Agrost. (1812) p. 51. Annual; stems 2-5 ft., 

 long, usually branched, tufted, rooting towards the base. Panicle dense, 

 spike-like; bristles few, smooth or barbed. The Italian Millet, ex- 

 tensively cultivated as a food-grain throughout India. According to 

 AVatt (Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 2, p. 548), about 330,000 acres were 

 under cultivation in the Bombay Presidency during the year 1886-87. 

 FI. B. I. V. 7, p. 78 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 435 ; 

 Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1170. Panic um italiciim, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 56 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 237 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 98.— Vern. Ecila. 



5. CHAM-ffiRAPHIS, Br. 



Glabrous marsh or aquatic grasses. Leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate. 

 Spikelets l-2-flo\vered, subsessile and subsecund on the branches of a 

 simple panicle which are produced as awn-like bristles beyond the 

 ultimate spikelet, obscurely articulate but persistent on their short 

 obconic pedicels, narrowly lanceolate, terete, green. Glumes 4; lower 

 invol.-glume very small, suborbicular, hyaline, white, nerveless ; upper 

 invol.-glume longer than the lower floral glume, membranous, gi'een, 

 uxrrowly lanceolate, acuminate or narrowed into a rigid awn, 9-11- 

 nerved ; lower floral glume lanceolate, acute or aristately acuminate, 

 paleate, 7-nerved, male, the palea smaller than the glume, hyaline ; 

 upper floral glume much smaller than the lower, stipitate, female, 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, flat, thinly coriaceous, nerveless, the 

 palea hyaline, as broad as the glume, acute, nerveless. Lodicules 

 cuneate. Stamens 3 ; anthers short. Styles free ; stigmas laterally 

 exsei'ted. Grain minute, oblong, compressed, free within the sub- 

 coriaceous glume and hyaline palea. — Disteib. Tropical Asia and 

 Australia ; species 5 or 6. 



