Peknisetum.] 97. GEAMINEM. [3. Paspalum. 



2. P. setosum, Rich. Swati, Beng. 



A handsome grass 3-4 ft. high (or only 1 ft.) fastigiately 

 branched above with flaccid leaves §-£" broad and reddish 

 Bpikes If -2" long witb tufts of barren filiform villous bristles 

 and a sessile, or sessile and shortly pedicelled, spikelet. Some 

 of the bristles §" long, red, beautifully plumose except above. 



Among rocks chiefly, rather local, abundant in Palamau. Fls. Nov.- 

 Dec. 



BpikeleU usually solitary in the cluster. GL I shorter than the others, 

 hyaline ; II longest %' f 5-nerved shortly awned, both villous ; III 5-nerved, 

 3-toothed with very minute bristles or cilia? ; IV and its pale both bristly 

 at the tip. 



2. Setaria, Beauv. 



1. S. italica, Beauv. Brba, 8., is a cultivated grass (Italian Millet) but 

 ifl not largely grown. 2. S. glauca, Beauv, Kukru, K., 6., is a grass 1S''- 

 2 ft. high occurring among other crops spontaneously but of which the 

 seed is gathered and eaten. It has inflated leaf -sheaths. Ligule of very 

 short stiff hairs. Spike dense 2i-3i'' by %' . Invohicel of about 10 long 

 . stiff bristles J v long which are barbed, whereas the bristles of S. italica 

 are not, or very minutely, barbed. Gl. iy is very hard transversely rugose 

 and closing round the hard pale and fruit. 



3. Paspalum, L. 



Paspalum has its spikelet s on one side of a broad flat 

 rachis ; these secund spikes are usually racemed, or in a 

 simple panicle. Gl. I is absent, the other three glumeB 

 correspond with II -IV. of Panicum. The genus contains 

 important fodder grasses, but some species are poisonous. 



1. P. SCrobiculatum, L. Gara Kode, K.j Janhe, S. 



A grass 3-4 ft. high with a perennial creeping root, or 

 annual, with lower sheaths inflated and compressed hairy at 

 the edges and lignle of long hairs. Spikes about 3 distant 

 spreading on an angular almost 2-winged rachis. 



In ravines and wild. Also cultivated as a CTop. Camp. sayB sown 

 about beginning of rains on high lands and reaped in November. Fls. 

 Oct-Nov . 



L. 18" by I" glabrous with scabrid margins. Bpikes 3-3£'' base with 

 ong hairs. Spikelet* 2-Beriate broad-elliptic oblong $*. Gl. II and III 



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