572 



Spec. Chae. Culms creeping, branched, extremities sub-erect : 

 leaves lanceolate-acuminate, waved, very unequal-sided : moutlis of 

 tbe sheaths bearded : panicle terminal, naked, consisting of distant, 

 spreading spikes : florets sessile, solitarj', subtended by a few long 

 hairs : lower glume narrow, endiag ia a long purple awn, upper 

 broader, oblong and mucronate. 



Poot of the Grhauts, under trees. Bengal. 



(19) P. Bestghalense. (Sprmg.) 



Spreng. syst. I. 311. 



8yn. P. strictum, Roxb. I. o. p. 303. — OpKsmenus strictus, 

 Schult. 



Spec. Chae. Culms straight, especially hairy at the joints, 

 2 — 3-feet : sheaths hirsute, beset at the throat with long soft white 

 hairs : leaves attenuated from a broad base, acuminate, somewhat 

 hairy : spikes compound, cylindric, straight : spikelets numerous, 

 1 -serial, expanded : glumes hairy, acute : corolla 3-valved, inner 

 one awned. 



Bengal, in dry barren places. 



(20) P. ASPEEXJM. f Wight, j 

 Ident. Wight herb. No. 52a. — Steudel 1. c. p. 49. 



Spec. Chae. Cuhn thickened below the spike : leaves narrow, 

 attenuated and with the sheaths very rough with small muriciform. 

 bristlets : panicle spicately branched, compound : partial spikes 

 approximated, spreading, 4 — 8-spiked : spikelets alternate, distant 

 or solitary, lanceolate-subulate : upper glume finely prolonged into 

 a longish subulate acumen. 



Peninsula. (?) 



(21) P. SLATJCCM. (lAnn.) 



Linn. sp. 83.-— Steudel L c. p. 50.— Griff. ITotulaB. 35. 



Setaria glauca, Beatm. agrost. 51. — Pennisetum glaucum, 

 Brown prod. I. 195. — Pan. penicillatum, N. ah E. in Mart. Bras. 

 — Pan. flavescens, Moench. — Pan. lutescens, Weig. ohs. 20. — Pan. 

 pumUum, Poir. — Setaria pumUa, Boem. and Schult. 



Migrav. Schreb. gram. t. 25. — ^Host. gram. II. t. 16. — Trin. Ic. 

 17, t. 195. 



Spec. Chae. Culm erect, branched : leaves internally slightly 

 scabrous, sub-glaucescent, scabrous at the margin: spike cylindric : 



