40. Setaeia.] 139. GRAMINE^. 



2. S. rhachitricha, T. Cooke. Syn. Panicum rhachitrichum, Hochsf. 

 A tufted erect leafy grass 8-18" high, stems with pubescent nodes. 



Leaves lanceolate-linear to lanceolate, slightly or scarcely plicate, 

 6-8" by 1-1-3" flaccid glabrous or sparsely hairy, base rounded. 

 Spikelets -1" ellipsoid, green -nerved, membranous, on the spiciform 

 erecto-patent or spreading slender branches of a subpyramidal panicle 

 2-6" long. Bristles supporting the spikelets solitary, twice as long 

 as the spkt. Gl. i 5-nerved (1-3-nerved, F.B.I.) minute orbicular 

 membranous ; ii 7-nerved (5-6-nerved, F.B.I.) obtuse ; iii 5-7- 

 nerved ^ ii, with a minute palea ; iv ellipsoid white transversely 

 rugulose. 



Raucbi, rare, Clarke[ Fl. Oct. 



Leaf-margins aud mouth of sheath villous. Branches of panicle very slender 

 flexuous, pilose as are the pedicels. Spkts. 1-2-seriate secund, more or less imbri- 

 cate, dorsally compressed. 



3. S. italica, Beauv. Kangni, kangu, H. ; Marang kukru, Haraba, 



K. ; Erba, *S^. ; Tangun, Or. ; Kango (Bonai) ; Arga (Khond- 



mals) ; The Italian Millet. 

 An erect tufted annual 2-5 ft. high with linear or lanceolate-linear 

 acuminate leaves •3--5" broad (often broader in specimens from out- 

 side our area), sheath densely ciliate on margin and mouth. Panicle 

 cylindrical spiciform dense, often inclined or cernuous, 3-5" long, -4" 

 diam. or more (without the bristles). Spikelets oval, -OS-'l" long in 

 small clusters on the abbreviated branchlets of the panicle with 2-3 

 bristles below each pedicel, bristles nearly smooth or microscopically 

 barbeilate, •2--3" long, barbs suberect or spreading. Gl. i ovate 

 hyaline, •03--04" ; iv oval or elliptic or subglobose, concave, hardening, 

 about -08" — 1 but variable, not rugose but smooth and microscopically 

 cancellate. 



Cultivated on liioh (not rice-) lands. Probably in most districts. Purneah! 

 Monghyr, Cal. Herb. ! Singbhum, cultivated sparingly ! Fl. Aug.-Oct. 



Margins of leaf retrorsely hispid {fide F.B.I. ; they seem to me merely scabrid). 

 Rhachis of panicle very hairy. Gl. ii ovate obtuse or rounded, about ^fths iv, 

 o-nerved ; iii hj^aline delicately- 4-5 nerved, as long as and same shape as iv, but 

 not concave. 



The grain is yellow or reddish and is eaten. 



4. S. glauca, Beauv. Bandra, H. ; Pingi-natchi, Beng. ; Kukru, A'., 



S. 

 A somewhat tufted grass 1-3-5 ft. high with glabrous stems, narrow 

 flat leaves 6-12" by •2--3" often with long soft hairs above and villous 

 towards base, ending in a long filiform tip. Panicles narrowly cylin- 

 drical spiciform, dense erect usually 2-3-5" long by •2--25" (without 

 the long bristles). Spikelets ovoid usually about -08--09" long (see 

 var.) with a cluster of 9-12 (6-12, F.B.I.) unequal bristles -15—25" 

 long below, bristles barbeilate with spreading or erect barbs, often 

 yellow. Gl. i ovate acute under ^- iii 3-nerved ; ii about ^ iii, 

 broad, 5-nervecl orbicular mucronate pale membranous ; iii broad- 

 oblong or ovate 3-5-nerved flat with 2-nerved palea ; iv shallowly 

 transversely rugose, hardening. 



Grassy places and commonl.\- occurring among other crops, self-sown and some- 

 times cultivated on uplands. Monghyr, Cal. Herb. ; Gya, Mokim; Santal Parg., 



