Setaria.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 79 



Cat. Panjab. PL 162 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 105 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 466 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 8, India. Fodd. Grass, t. x., Fodd. Grass. 

 N.Ind. 14; Grisel), FL Brit. W. Ind. 554; Benth. FL Austral, vii 492; 

 Reichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 47 ; Boiss. FL Orient, v. 442 ; Baker FL Maurit. 

 442. S. aurea, Hochst. ex A. Br. in Flora, xxiv. (1841) 276. S. auricoma, 

 Link, ex Loud. Sort. Britt. 25. S. chrysantha, Heynh. Nom. ii. 661. S. 

 flava, Kunth Rev, Gram. i. 46. S. helvola, Roem. fy Sch. L c. ; Miq. I.e. 467. 

 S. humifusa & rubicunda, Dam. Obs. Gram. Belq. 139. S. puorila, Sch. 

 ManL ii. 274. P S. sciuroidea, C. Muell. in Bot. Zeit. xix. (1861) 316. S. 

 tejucensis, Kunth Enum. PL i. 150. S. Ventenatii, Kunth Rev. Gram. i. 

 251, t. 37. S. dasyura, Hort. Hal. ex Schlecht in Linnsea, xxvi. (1853) 

 463. S. penicillata, Nees in Wall. Gat. n. 8640 A. B. C. E. Panicu-u . 

 alopecuroides, Koen. ex Trin. Gram. Panic. 162. P. chrysanthum, Steud. 

 Nom,. Ed. 2, ii. 254. P. flavescens, Moench. Meth. 206. P. glaucum, Linn. 

 Sp. PL 56 ; Host Gram. Austr. ii. t. 16 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 195 ; Roxb. 

 FL Ind. i. 285 ; Thw. Enum. 361; Wight Cat. n. 1643; Benth. FL Hongk. 

 411 ; Nees FL Afr. Au&tr. 55, Aarost. Bras. 241. P. helvolum, Linn. f. 

 Suppl. 107. P. holcoides, Jacq. Eclog. Gram. t. 22. P. laevigatum, Ell. 

 Sketch, i. 112. P. lutescens, Weig. Obs. 20. P. luteum, Guldenst. Reis. ii. 

 58. P. miniinnm, Wall. Oat. 8641 B. P. penicillatum, Willd. ex Nees 

 Aarost. Bras. 242 ; Willd. |8 (or P. helvolum, Linn.) Wiaht Oat. n. 1644. 

 P. polystachyum, Herb. Heyne ex Wall. Gat. 8639 E. P. purnilum, Poir. 

 Encyd. iv. 273 (ex Kunth L c.}. P. Yentenatii, Steud. Nom. Ed. II, ii. 265. 

 P. verticillatum, Rpttl. ex Spreng. Syst. i. 304. P. viride, Poll. Hist. PL 

 Palat. i. 55. Pennisetum glaucum & helvolum, Br. Prodr. 195. 



Throughout INDIA, especially in cult, ground. DISTRIB. All warm, temp, and 

 trop. regions. 



Annual. Stem 1-2 ft. erect or ascending, simple or branched. Leaves broad or 

 narrow, sometimes 18 by in., flat, glabrous or sparsely hairy, margins scabrid. 

 Spictform panicles cylindric, 1-7 in., dense-fld., usually yellow, rarely purplish or 

 green, rarely interrupted ; sometimes reduced to an ovoid head with very few spike- 

 lets ; bristles of involucel 6-12, very variable in length, from a little longer to four 

 times as long as the ovoid spikelet ; gl. I minute; II rather shorter than III, sub- 

 acute; III usually empty, sometimes paleate and male; IV broadly ovoid, very 

 convex. 



Var. macrocarpa ; gl. Ill and IV equal and subsimilar. in the ripe state, forming 

 a subglobose crustaceous rugose sphere in. diam., Ill paleate empty, IV fern., 

 bristles of involucel in. pale rufous. The Panjab, Aitchison, Western Bengal and 

 Behar, Kurz. A remarkable form, but passing into the ordinary state of the plant 

 by intermediates. 



Var. parviflora, Munro mss. ; stems 6-10 in. branched and decumbent below, 

 leaves smaller, spiciform panicle -1 in., ovoid nearly white, bristles of involucel 

 - in., grl. IV much less strongly rugose. ? S. imberbis, Roem. Sf Sch. ii. 891 ; Wall. 

 Oat. n. 864:1 A in part, B-F. Panicum Codaea, Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. I.e. 

 Kumaon, alt. 4-5000 ft., Duthie. Khasia Hills, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. The Concan, 

 Madras and Burma, Walllch. Probably the S. imberbis, of Africa, &c., but a 

 smaller plant, with very small spikes, differing in this respect and in the less rugose 

 gl. IV from S. glauca. 



3. S. intermedia, Roem. & Sck. Syst. ii. 489 ; panicle narrowly 

 pyramidal subspiciform or very slender with segregate clusters of involucels, 

 bristles of involucel with spreading or suberect barbs, gl. IV small oblong 

 subrugulose. Kunth Enum. PL i. 150 ; Aitch. Gat. Panjab. PL 162 ; 

 Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PL 105 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 9, Fodd, Grass. N. Ind. 

 14; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 466. S. verticillata, Wall. Cat. n. 8642 (D. in 



