139. GRAMINEM. [49. Brachiaria. 



3-iierved ; ii 7-9-nervecl sub-acuminate = spkt. ; iii similar but with 

 depressed back and 5-nerved ; iv pale elliptic with a long mucro or 

 short abrupt awn closely finely dotted or rugulose. 



Singbhum ! Manbhum (near), Nad-er ! Fl., Fr. r.s.-Oct. 



L. minutely wrinkled crenulate along mai-gins when dry, base rounded or 

 amplexicaul, margin with long cilia especially near the base, ligule of stiff hairs. 

 Rhachides of panicle and spikes scaberulous' and with few long hairs. Pedicels 

 very short with few long hairs, tip with a saucer-shaped base of glume left after 

 fall of spkt. 



2. U. setigera, Stax>f. Syn. Panicum setigerum, Retz. 



Stems 2-3 ft. slender, prostrate and straggling below with long 

 lower internodes ; nodes rooting, tomentose. Leaves 2-3" or some- 

 times 6" by -9" ovate lanceolate with long cilia towards the amplexicaul 

 base, margins crenulately wrinkled towards the base. Spikes 3-G 

 spreading or suberect. " Spikelets lanceolate cuspidate-acuminate 

 •14-- 17" long 2-seriate alternate imbricate glabrous or pubescent 

 the very short pedicels with scattered long setose hairs. Gl. i broadly 

 ovate amplexicaul, 3- or sub-5-nerved ; ii 7-, rarely 9-nerved ; iii 

 5-nerved, neuter, palea nearly as large; iv about -1" long, finely 

 rugose, aristulate. 



Frequent in the districts along our eastern boundary from Maldah ! southwards, 

 tliough no specimen appears yet to have been actually collected within it. Fl. 

 Sept., May (May-Sept. ?). 



3. U. reptans, Sta2)f. Syn. Brachiaria prostrata, Griseb. ; Panicum 



prostratum, Lamk. ; P. reptans, L. 



A small csespitose grass with stems 4-15" long and very short 

 amplexicaul lanceolate cordate leaves •5-1-5" long, rarely 2" by -G", 

 Avith the base and sheaths long-ciliate and frequently white-hairy 

 on both surfaces. Spikes usually few at the top of the panicle- 

 rhachis longer than its internodes, secund suberect -3-1" long with 

 slender angular rhachis smooth or hispidulous on the margins. Spkts. 

 elhpsoid with acute tip, -07—09" long, glabrous, unequally pedicelled, 

 pedicels with long (rather caducous) ciha. Gl. i scarcely -02" long, 

 broader than long, truncate or retuse with a small apex ; ii acute 

 5-7 -nerved ; iii strongly 5-nerved, paleate ; iv as long as iii, elliptic, 

 acute, dorsally rounded, obtuse and apiculate, thinly coriaceous, 

 minutely transversely rugulose in fruit. 



A common weed in grazed fields, etc. Patna {Wall. 873i) ! Bhagalpur, King ! 

 Monghyr ! Santal Pavg., i\'H.sAe>- ! Gy&,Clarke[ Singbhum! Manbhum! Pun, 

 Wahhl FL, Fr. r.s.-Dec. Annual or perennial. 



The cilia are frequently on the common abbreviated peduncle of the spikelets 

 rather than on their pedicels. I had placed this species in Brachiaria before 

 consulting the Kew Herb. 



49. BRACHIARIA, Griseb. 



(Panicum, Sect. Brachiaria, F.B.I, in part, and Sect. Paspaloidese, 

 F.B.I, in part.) 



Annual or perennial with linear to lanceolate leaves, ligules reduced 

 to a ciliate or ciliolate rim. Spikelets more or less elliptic or oblong, 

 articulate on their very short 1-2- (rarely more-) nate pedicels, dorso- 

 ventrally compressed, convex on the back, adaxial (with gl. i towards 



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