Mll,I.Kr> i»F I UK IJK.NLS SKTARIA. 



••11. J*, iiilosuiii. ■ J^adli. Kcliiiidolilda liispidiila. Is 



cultivated luori' iidaiid than the fbniier three 



species and distinguishable by the long hairy 



rough spikes clustering all round therachis." 



[tMi .1. J ). Hooker, in the Flora of British India, may have 



rt-duced this to Panicuni crusgalli, Liiut. var. 



iVuinentacea altei- examination of Dalzell and 



Gibson's original specimens, but the description 



points without doubt to a variety of S. italica, 



whicli is often known as BhndJi in the Deecan 



districts, while I have no record of that name 



being applied to P. crusgalli. The spikes of 



the latter (P. crusgalli) are not long hairy and 



they certainly do not cluster all round the rachis.] 



" 1 'J. l'.-(^) sp. — 'Rale,' much less hairy than the last, 



pr<)bal)Iy only a variety. The grain is deemed 



very nutritious and is a favourite i'ood in cases of 



exhaustion. This is iiKJst ceitaiidy the ty))ioal 



form of S. italica." 



Ill a iiioic recent pajxr l>y 1 )r. .1. Walter Jjcatlicr, entitled 



*• Inilian F<iotl-grains and Fodders, their Chemical Composition ' 



(published in the Agricultural Ledger No. 7 of 190;3, Food-grains 



and Fodders) the author gives the following analyses of the Grains 



autl Fodder of Setaria italica : — 



