SetariaJ] CLXXIII. ORAMINE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) 81 



Syst. Ed. x. 870; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 203. Pennisetum viride, Br. 

 Prodr. 195. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, ascending to 11,000 ft., but not 

 common; rare on the plains of ludia. NILGHIRI HILLS? (perhaps introduced) 

 Heyne (in Herb. Wallich. n. 8640 D.). DISTKIB. Temp, and subtrop. regions of 

 the Old World. 



Annual. Habit of 8. alauca, but spike-like panicle more interrupted; bristles 

 of involucel 3-6, usually short, green or reddisb ; spikelets larger and more ovoid, 

 and gl. IV nearly smooth. Ol. 1 = about-i 111, acute; II -and III subequal, 5-7- 

 nerved. 



6. S. gracillimaj HooJc.f. \ leaves long narrow pubescent, peduncles 

 elongate filiform scaberuloue, spike-like panicle elongate rachis capillary 

 villous or pubescent, spikelets minnte solitary or in distant shortly 

 pedicelled clusters of 2-3, bristles 1-2 capillary most minutely scaberulous, 

 gl. IV transversely rugulose. 



CEYLON, Gardner (n. 968). 



Whole plant 18 in. high, flaccid, very slender ; stems densely tufted. Leaves 

 8-12 by ^ in., finely acuminate, pubescent on both surfaces, base narrow'; sheath 

 narrow, mouth villous. Peduncles 3-4 in., quite erect, rachis hardly flexuous, pedicels 

 pubescent, bristles erect, often solitary. Spikelets subglobose, glabrous, green ; gl. I 

 = III, broadly ovate, 3-nerved ; II shorter than IV, 5-7-nerved ; III as long as 

 IV, subacute, 5-nerved, palea large hyaline ; IV pale, coriaceous, acute. Quite unlike 

 any other species. 



7. S. Forbesiana, Hook. f. ; perennial, tall, erect, leaves linear- 

 lanceolate base rounded, panicle narrowly pyramidal, branches short or 

 elongate, bristles few very rigid, spikelets ovoid, glumes strongly nerved, 

 IV minutely transversely rugulose. Setaria macrostachya, Duthie Grass. 

 N.W. Ind. 9 ; Lisboa in Journ Bomb: Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1890) 2 ; Herb. Ind. 

 Or. Hook. f. & Thorns, (vix H. B. & K.). Panicum Forbesianum, Nees ex 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 98 ; Anderss. in Walp. Ann. vi. 948. Panicum, Wall. 

 Gat. n. 8704. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Nepal, Wallich, to Mishmi, Griffith, ascending to 

 5000 ft. KB ASIA HILLS, alt. 2-4000 ft. The CONCAN, Lisboa. 



Stems 3-5 ft., tufted, as thick as a duck's quill, quite smooth. Leaves 12-18 by 

 i-| in., finely acuminate, flat, nearly smooth except the margins; sheath glabrous 

 or margins and mouth villous ; ligule of long silky hairs. Panicle 5-12 in., strict, 

 rachis stout, either, narrowly pyramidal with erecto-patent lower branches ^-li in. 

 long, or spiciforrri with short branches. Involucel of few green or purple stout 

 bristles, |- in. long or less. Spikelets T V~i i n -> sessile, ovoid, green; gl. I = \ III, 

 acute or obtuse, 3-nerved; II shorter than IV, orbicular, subacute or obtuse, 9- 

 nerved; III = IV, 7-9-nerved, paleate, male or neuter; IV oblong-ovoid, subacute 

 turgid, white. Very near Setaria macrostachya, H. B. & K. of tropical America 

 and Australia, which differs more in habit than any other characters, having a much 

 denser panicle and the leaves very much narrowed at the base. Both are closely 

 allied to Panicum plicatu'm, but the leaves are not plicate. 



UNDETERMINABLE, &C., SPECIES. 



S. ? CANESCENS, Kunth Rev. Gram. i. 47, Enum. \. 157 = Panicum canescens, 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 54; Steud. Syn. Gram. 54. 



S. FIELDINGII, C. Muell. in Sot. Zeit. xix. (1861) 323. Not an Indian grass. 



S. HIRTA, Kunth Rev. Gram. 8f Enum. II. c.c. = Panicum hirtum, Roth I. c. 46. 

 P. Rothii, Spreng. Syst. i. 310. Oplismenus ? hirtus, Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 485u 

 Echinochloa ? hirla, JSchult. Mant. ii. 270. 



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