Setaria.] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 429 
ay upper (at least when in flower) ; pale hyaline, more or less arrested 
FO; oret ellipsoid to globose, obtuse or obscurely apiculate, 
re 14 lin. long, whitish yellowish or reddish; valve papery to 
crustaceous, smooth or very obscurely wrinkled, 5-nerved; anthers 
+ lin. long; grain ellipsoid or oe se, about 3 lin. long, whitish. 
Kunth, Réo “Gran. i. 46; Enum 153, Suppl. 108; Durand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fil. Afr. v. 773; K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. 
B. 73, C. 105; Hook. f. “Pl Brit. er vii. 78. —- ttalicum, 
Pi, 56; i 
Spec. Ic. t. 198; Pan. Gen. 135, and in Mém. pre: Pétersh. 
sér. vi, ili, 223; Steud. a Pl. Glum. i. 51; Koern. & Wern. 
Flandb. Rateticouta: i. 25 
CENTRAL Reation ; Albert on ; without precise locality, Cooper, 638! 
ated from South Europe to Japan, particularly in ee vir 
occasionally also oT Koernicke spel it as descended from 8S, viridis 
Li copious synonymy of this grass which is very candle grown in 
i Ma see e Hook f. Fl. Brit. Ind. }.c., a as to the numerous varieties Koernicke 
ern Le. 
8. verticillata est all Agrost. 51) ; annual; culms erect or 
nthe © rom a geniculate base, 1-5 ft. long, usually compressed 
reduced to sessile clusters, ee spikelet subtended by a coarse 
preg apa bristle 2~7 lin. long; spikelets ellipsoid, — 
about 1 lin. long, light green, shebious lower glume hyaline, j 
ovate, acute, Bie Sah 3-nerved, 1—2 as long as the spikelet, we 
membranous, elliptic, concave, 5—7-nerved, equal to the spikelet or 
almost so ; lower oret barren; valve similar to the upper glume, 
t. 1694 ; Sowerb. Brit. Grass. 63, t. 52; Durand & Schinz, Consp. 
Afr. v. 774; Hack. in Bull. Herb. Bows. iv. App. iii. 16 ; Hook ef. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. vii. 80. 8S. Rottleri, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 304; Kunth, 
Le. 153. 8. nubiea, Link, Hort. Berol. i. 220; Kun th, Le. 8. 
respiciens, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 467. Panicum verticillatum, Linn. 
