:39. Pennisetum.] 139. GRAMINE.E. 



2. P. parviflorum, Trin. 



Erect and rather slender with a general resemblance to setosum and 

 pedicellatum, stem and rhachis both glabrous (or slightly rough). 

 Spike narrow erect tapering purple 3-5" long by -3" (without the 

 bristles). 8pikelets •12-- 14" long, close but not clustered on the 

 undulate-toothed angles of the rhachis. Bi'istles all free to the base, 

 unbranched and scaberulous, without any cilia, some attaining -6" 

 long. 



Damnda Ghats (Hazaribagh), G^wwi/e ! Hazaribagh, Clarice I Manbhum, Cawj). 

 I'arasnath. FL, Fr. c.s. 



Leaves suberect, i-lO" by IT-'S", base and mouth of sheath ciliate. Gl. i minute 

 f;uborbicular ; ii length of spkt. 5-nerved truncate cuspidate; iii 5-nerved truncate 

 toothed paleate male ; iv lanceolate obtuse nerveless shining. 



3. P. orientale, Rich. 



A perennial 2-6 ft. high from a densely tufted often stout creeping 

 branched rootstock. Leaves 1-2 ft. by •17--5", narrowly linear, glabrous 

 ■or hairy. Panicle 10" long with very patent mostly secund spikelets 

 *75" long including the purple bristles, rhachis hairy. Spkts. -16- 

 -17" long lanceolate, 2-5 in each involucel Avhich has hispid shortly 

 branched pedicels. 



ParHsnath, Clarke ! FI. Oct. 



Rhachis of spike stout, siibterete. Outer spkts. of a cluster often imperfect, 

 bristles •6-'75" long, very slender, fiexuous, free at the base, very unequal, villous 

 below. Gl. i ovate or oblong, nerveless, as long as iii; ii ovate-lanceolate 3-nerved ; 

 iii ari stately acuminate, 5-nerved; iv aristate shining, longer than ii. 



4. P. pedicellatum, Trin. 



A handsome grass 1-5 ft. high, branched from base and often fas- 

 tigiately branched above with flaccid leaves 6-10" by •25--9" broad 

 and reddish dense spikes 1-5-3" long conspicuous by the involucral 

 tufts of densely plumose bristles. Spikelets solitary and geminate, 

 •one or both shortly pedicelled, -17" long. Bristles in sessile groups 

 of 15-22, very unequal, longest attaining -5", inner densely cottony- 

 villous in the lower half or three-fourths. Gl. i very small oblong 

 Avoolly or reduced to a tuft of villi ; ii longest hyaline or chaffy lan- 

 ceolate shortly awned or cuspidately acuminate 5-nerved (7-nerved, 

 F.B.I.), sparsely villous ; iii •1--12", oblong truncate 5-3-nervcd 

 often minutely toothed and with minute bristles or cilia at tip ; iv 

 broadly lanceolate but margins infolded, tapering to the truncate 

 minutely ciliate or hispid tip, coriaceous and polished when ripe. 



In rocky places, often subgregarious locally. Behar, Hope ! Monghyr, Kiirz, 

 etc. ! Gya, MoJclm ! Ranchi Gamble, etc ! Hazaribagh, Prain, Clayhe etc. ! (common 

 in Koderma Forest) ! Palamau, common ! Manbhum, Camp. 1 Fl., Fr. Oct.-Nov. 



This has been relatively often collected compared with many other more common 

 grrtsses, probably from its striking usually pink or purj^le inflorescences. 



5. P. setosum, Rich. 



Very similar to P. pedicellatum and possibly only a variety of that 

 species, the characters employed to separate them being vague in 

 practice. The bristles are said to be sparsely ciliate, they are better 

 described as somewhat less and more shortly villose than in ^?ef/iceZ- 

 latum and the villi straight, i. e., less woolly, often unilateral, sometimes 



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