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2. A Stricta, Nees (?). — 1 to 3 feet high ; culms rigid, wiry, 

 smooth, round; nodes elongated; sheaths smooth, woolly at the 

 apex ; leaves few, 9 to 10 inches long, with a fine point, 2^ Hnes 

 broad, shortly pubescent on the upper side ; striated margins, serru- 

 late ; flowers panicled ; branchlets subverticelled ; spikelets solitary, 

 racemed ; the pedicels pubescent ; florets pale-purple, smooth ; 

 glumes unequal; lower smaller, ovate, acuminate, strongly 3-nerved; 

 upper acuminate, 5-nerved, twice the length ; outer or lower palesB 

 of upper flower shghtly bifid, with a short, twisted awn, which is 

 not longer than itself. Mahableshwur. 



3. A GiGANTEA, Dalz. — Culms erect, round, smooth, 6 feet 

 high, as thick as a goose-quill at the base, branched at all the lower 

 joints ; nodes much swollen, covered by the tomentose base of the 

 sheaths, which are ciliated along the margins, and about half the 

 length of the joints; leaves 1^ to 2 feet long, attenuated to a fine 

 point, 5 to 6 lines broad in the middle, scabrous and deeply 

 striated above, sparingly pilose ; panicle very delicate and large ; 

 pedicels solitary or in pairs, very slender, scabrous ; flowers similar ; 

 in all respects to the one named species. At the foot of the 

 Ghauts, Kineshwur. 



4. A Spicata, Dalz. — Culms erect, simple, 1 foot high ; leaves 

 ensiform, and, with the sheaths, clothed with stiff, spreading hairs, 

 1 to 1 ^ inches long, 3 lines broad ; spike terminal, cylindric, 

 1 ^ inch long, densely flowered ; lower glume herbaceo-membranous, 

 with 3 green veins, lanceolate, subulate, a little pilose, 1 line long; 

 upper long-attenuated and folded, 2| lines long, and concealing 

 within it the awn of the hermaphrodite flower. In this species, 

 the inflorescence is like that of Setaria, and unlike its congeners, 

 but the flowers are exactly similar to all the above species. 

 Mahableshwur Hills, common. To this genus (Arundinella) l3elong 

 the Holcus nervosus and Ciliatus of Roxb. Fl. Ind.; also the 

 Acratherum miliaceum of Link., and probably the Loudetia of 

 Hochsteller. We are inclined to place the genus in the Section 

 Andropogonese. 



7. SETARIA, Beauv. 



1. S Glauca, Beauv. Agiost. 51. — Culms erect, ramous, 

 smooth, a little compressed, 1 to 3 feet high ; leaves sheathing, 

 nearly bifarious, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths hairy ; spikes 

 terminal, solitary, cylindric, 2 to 6 inches long ; involucels from 

 below each floret consisting of a bundle of hairy bristles, which is 

 shortly pedicelled ; glumes smooth ; hermaphrodite flower trans- 

 versely undulated ; male with 2 palese. Syn. Panicum glaucum, 

 Linn. sp. 83 ; Pennisetum glaucum, Br. Prod, i, 195. A variety 



