Setaria. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 421 
Annual ; pauicles cylindric, often lobed, dense, 
or lax: 
Bristles of panicle with the barbs 
pointing upwards ; 
Culms slender, weak ; blades 2-6 in, 
by 1-3lin. ; panicles erect, slender, 
4-8in. by 14-2 lin. ; fruiting valve 
transversely wrinkled .,. ... (10) imberbis. 
Culms often stont; blades 4-1} ft. 
long by 3-10 lin.; panicles often 
nodding, 14-12 in. by 4-12 lin.; 
often lobed; fruiting valvesmooth (11) italica. 
Bristles of panicle with the barbs reversed (12) verticillata. 
bebe’ f n. long, terminating the branches and branchle and at 
the base of some or most of the lower and middle spikelets ; pedicels 
very short, scabrid, tips subdiscoid; spikelets oblong, acute, 1} lin. 
long, glabrous, green or tinged with purple; glumes herbaceous- 
bi t ‘so; valve ovate-oblong, acu ub-7-nerved, of the 
Same texture asthe glumes; pale slightly shorter than its valve or 
e or less reduced ; $ floret oblong, acuminate, 1} lin. long, tips 
l 
3 lin. long. Schult. JF. Mant. ii. 278. Panicum suleatum, Aubl. Guian. 
1.90; A. Bertol. Excerpt.14 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 93; Trin. Pan. Gen. 
132, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. vi. iti. 220 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 
1.49. P. flabellatum, Steud. 1.c. 53. P. racemiferum, Wawra, Oecster. 
bot. Zeitschr. 1862, 171. P. megaphyllum, Steud. l.c. 53. P. plicatile, 
Hochst. in Flora, 1855, 198. P. excurrens, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 48 ; 
Steud. le. 49 (in part), not Trin. P. nepalense, Steud, le. 49, and 
Durand & Schinz, l.c. 756, not Spreng. 
EAasTERN ReGion: Natal; near Durban, Driye : Pundoland 5 Uetwesa Umtata 
