428 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Setaria. 
reduced to a subsessile one-sided involuere of 3-8 fine scabrid bristles 
14-4 lin. long, pallid below,fulvous or reddish above, and subtending 
usually 1 per rfect and often 1 arrested spikelet ; spikelets elliptic- 
oblong, minutely apiculate or obtuse, 1-12 lin. long, pallid, or purplish 
at the tips, glabrous; glumes very thin , me mbranous, ovate, acute or 
subacute, whitish, lower 3-nerved, rather less than 3 as long as the 
spikelet, upper 5-nerved, rather more than } as long as the “spikelet, 
nerves green; lower florets equal, Jower barren or 3d; valve equalling 
the spikelet, flat, similar to the upper glume; pale subequal to the 
alve ; oret plano-couvex, ovate- elliptic, usually minutely 
apiculate, pallid or purplish at the tips ; valve coriaceous, transversely 
wrinkled, 5-nerved ; anthers } lin. wen Kunth, Enum. i. 150; 
r 
Encyel. Suppl. iv. 272; ; Nees, Agrost. Bras. ti. 237; Fl. Afr. Austr. red 
Tri n. Gen. 134, and in Mém. Acad. Pétorsb. sér. vi. iil. 2 
Doell in Mart. FI. ne ii, li, 156. P. glaucum, var. a, Trin. Ie. 
Gram. Spee. t. 196, jig. 
ni ae GION: viento ‘Div.; 3 grassy places near the Zwartkops si 
; Komgha Div. ; banks of Key ties a 4311! Queenstown Div 
Sceaicne near Uusacehonsi, 3500 ft., Galpi og 
LAHARI REGION: Ree eget West, Herl erb r Douglas, Orpen, 
245! Transinal common on open fields near gh eh ens E.S.C.A. Herb., 
313! 317! 
stern Region: Greytown, 3000 ft., Buchanan, 177! near the Tugela 
River, 6000 ft. pe en, 176! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 177e! 
A‘so in the Mascarene oe and in tropical East Africa; very common 
tissagline’ tropical Ameri 
1. §. italica (Beauv. Agrost. 51); annual; culms ge 
erect or geniculate, often stout, terete, 2-5 ft. long, simple o 
so, glabrous, smooth or scabrid below the panicle, 5-7: noded, chuethit 
all along or some parece at length exserted ; sheaths terete, 
above, pak, margins s cabrid to ‘igancieae, panicle often oddin 8 
or flexuous, spike-like, cylindric, stout, often lobed, 14-12 in. be 4-13 
lin., rather dense to compact, shortly or long bristly; axis air 
stout, usually tomentose ; branches spirally arranged or more or les 
whorled, very short and branched from the base or the lower }—} 10- 
erry green, g glabrous ; lower game 
hyaline, broad, ovate, acute, Lome about 4 as long as the 
=: a ay glume thin, membranous, elliptic, concave, 5- to sab 8 
nerved, 2-3 long as the spikelet; lower floret barren; V 
iiusiler’ to ibe: upper glume, dorsally flattened, 5-nerved, equalling 
