432 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Pennisetum. 
1. P. typhoideum (Rich. in Pers. Syn. i. 72); annual; culms 
erect, stout, 1 to several feet high, usually terete ees simple, 5- or 
more-node a hairy to villous below the panicle, otherwise usually 
glabrous; sheaths terete, qtr except the bearded nodes and the 
often villous junction wit e blade, rarely hirsute, usually slightly 
rough, rather shorter than iin internodes ; ligule a narrow long an 
densely ite rim ; blades ing to linear-lanceolate from a rounded 
base, acute, 4 t. by 4-11 in., flat, more or less rough, glabrous, 
rarely es peiiela ile like, cylindric, very dense, 4-8 in. i 
5-9 lin. (in the South African specimens) or longer and thicker, 
often purplish; rhachis stout, villous; branchlets reduced to a 
peduncled involuerate cluster of 3-1 spikelets; peduncles villous, 
straight, 1-22 lin. long, often horizontally spreading or partly deflexed ; 
involuere of very numerous ciliate often purplish bristles about as 
long as the spikelets; spikelets sessile or shortly pedicelled within 
the involucre, readily deciduous when ripe, oblong, 2—23 lin. long, 
pale or purplish upwards ; glumes broadly ovate, obtuse, minute, 
hyaline, nerveless, ciliate, or larger (the upper to + the length of the 
ner mal firmer and 3-nerved ; ‘florets similar, subequal, lower Jd or 
reduced to a minute empty hyaline valve ; valves broadly oblong, 
cuspidate or mucronate, ed oe hee glabrous, ciliate or pubescent 
gobo Seon the gaping chartaceous very smooth valve and 
pale. Delile, FI. Eigyp te, 17, t. 8, fig. 3; Trin. Gram. Pan. 71; 
Pan. Gen. 96, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. ser. vi. ili. 184 eae 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum.i.108 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 82. P.a 
curoides, Spreng. Syst. i, 303; P: 3 ae Rév. Gram, i , ai 
P. spicutum, Koern. in Koern. & n. Handb,. Getreidebaues, i. 284 ; 
Engl. Hochgebirgsf. Trop. Afr. 196;  Beliosing in Bull. Herb. Boise: 
ii. App. ti. 25; Durand &: Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 784; K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. B. 51-59; Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 
App.iii.17. P. nigricans, P. Ni igr ritarum and P. pease Durand 
& Schinz, l.c. 781, 782. Penicillaria spicata, Willd. Enu n. Hort. 
igre 1037; Jacq. Eel. Gram. t.17; Beauv. reas 5 iliatr, 
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xii. (1852), TL, 372. 2 Nigritaram and P. s ieberiana, 
Sovurn Arrica: without precise locality, Thunberg ! 
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