88 CLXXiii. QBAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pennketum. 



Stem erect, often stout and fastigiately branched at the nodes, green or pnrpliBh. 

 Leaves 6-10 by i-f in., flat, flaccid, glabrous or hairy. Spikes iev, or many, 2-4 

 in., usually purplish brown; rachis slender, deeply pitted; involucels close-set at 

 length spreading ; bristles laxly but copiously ciliate below the middle, all slender 

 and free at the base ; gl. II. suddenly or gradually cuspidate; III with two obtuse 

 lateral teeth at the tip and an acute median. Styles free at the base.— Possibly 

 not indigenous in India. 



10 P. bortoonicum, Kunth Bevis. Cham. i. 259, t. 41, Enum. 

 PI. i. 162, Suppl. 118; habit, &c. of P. setosum, bnt spikes longer 

 1 in. diam. across the bristles, spikelets i in., gl. II much longer than 

 III acnminate. Gymnothrix Thuarii, Beauv. Agrost. 59. G. Thouani, 

 StmA. Nom. Ed. II. ; 386. Panicum longisetum, Pair. Encyc. iv. 275 

 {Pixel. 8yn. Beam.). — Pennisetum sp. Wall. Gat. n. 8645. 



Bengal J at Serampore, Oarey; margins of fields, &c., Kurz. Silhet, G-riffith 

 — DisTElB. Bourbon. 



A very doubtful native of India. 



** Inner bristles of involncel dilated below, their bases confluent in a 

 coriaceous disk. 



11. P. cenchroides, Bich. in Pers. Syti. i. 72 ; peduncle and rachia 

 of spike glabrous, spikelets \ in. 1-3 in each pedicelled involucel, gl. I = 

 ■| III ovate acuminate nerveless, 11 = 5 IV ovate acuminate 1-nerved, 

 III oblong truncate 5-nerved, IV lanceolate truncate or cuspidate. Beauv. 

 Agrost. 59, t. 13, f. 5 ; Trin. Fund. Agrost. 171, t. xv., Diss. ii. 69, Pan. Gen. 

 93 ; Nees Agrost. Bras. 184, Fl. Afr. Austr. 70, inLinnsea, vii. 162; Kiinlh 

 Enum. PL i. 162; Suppl. 119 ; Parlat. Fl. Ital. i. 108, in Webh. 4; Berth. 

 Phyt. Canar. iii. III. 380, t. 244 ; Steud. Si/n. Gram. 105 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 

 445; Baker Fl. Maurit. 441; Wall. Cai.n.8649; Aitchis. Cat.Panjab. PI. 162 ; 

 lAshoa in Journ. Botrib. Nat. Mist. 8oc. v. (1891) 338 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 10, Indig. Fodd. Grass, t. 12, 13, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 17. P. ciliare, 

 lAnk. Sort. Berol. i. 213; Goss. ^ Dur. Fl. Alger, ii. ZS. P. incomptum, 

 Nees ex Stevd. I. c. 105 (ex descr.). P. distylum, Gnss. Ind. Sem. Eort'. 

 Bocc. 8, Fl. Sic. Prodr. i. 12 ; Bertol. Fl. Ital. i. 393. P. petreum, Steud. 

 I. c. 106. PP. Vahlii, Kunth Bevis. i. 49. P. rufescens, Spreng. Syst. i. 

 202; Funth l.l. c.€. 162, ii. 117- Steud. I.e. Cenchrus Anjania, Herb: 

 Sam. ex Wall. Gat. n. 8649 B. C. oiliaris, Unn. Sp. PI. 302 ; Desf. Fl. 

 Atlant. ii. 387. C. digynus, Schreb. ex Boiss. I. c. 449. 0. longit'olius, 

 Hoohst. ex Steud. I.e. C. mutabilis, Wight. Herb. 0. pennisetiformis, 

 ITochst. et Steud. ex Boiss. I. c. 448. 0. rufescens, Desf. I. c. 388. 

 Panicum vulpinum, Willd. Enum. Sort. Berol. 1031. 



Plains and low hills throughout Western India, from Kashmir to the Upper 

 Gangetic plain and sonthwd. (Absent from Ceylon.) — Disteib. Westwd. to Sicily, 

 troji. Afr. and the Canaries. 



Stems tufted, 6-18 in., erect or decumbent and much branched from the base, 

 stout or slender, leafy, or ascending from a branching often nodose rootstock, the 

 sheaths of which are often woolly. Leaves 6-10 by J-^ in., glabrous hairy or 

 villous. Spikes 14-4 in., pale, rarely purplish ; peduncle often flexuous ; rachis 

 scabernlous ; involucels subsessile, outer bristles slender, squarrosely spreading ; inner 

 twice as long as the spikelets, thickened and ciliate below, filiform flexuous and 

 scabrid above. Spikelets 3, polygamous, gl. Ill male or sometimes fem. with an 

 obcordute ovary; IV coriaceous ; styles nearly free at the base. 



Yar. eohinoides; inner bristles of the involucel shortly connate above the basal 

 disk. Cenchrus echinoides, Wight ex Sieud. Nom. Ed. II. i. 317 ; Syn. Qram. 109. 



