573 



involucre with, many bristles, much longer than the 1 — 4-nou8 

 Bpikelets : glumes glabrous : hermaphrodite floret transversely 

 ■waved : male 2-paleaceous. 



JeUangtey, near the banks of the Ganges, Western coast. A 

 variety of this, with the iuvolucels of a reddish colour and the 

 fertUe florets transversely and deeply wrinkled and shining, is one 

 of the commonest grasses on the table-land of Mahableshwur where 

 it is called "Kolara," (Dak. Bomh.flw. p. 293-4.^ 



(22) P. HELVOLxnu. (Linn.J 

 Ident. Linn, suppl. 107. 



Pennisetum helvolum, R. Brown prod. 195. — Panicum 

 glaucum, Roxb, — Setaria helvola, Boem. and Sohult. 



Spec. Cttat?,. Culm branched, 6-feet, sterile branches shorter: 

 leaves towards the base, above beset with spreading white hairs : 

 spike simple, about 7-inches, florets without order : involucels 

 1 -flowered, bristles fascicled, greyish-yellow: hermaphrodite flower 

 striated lengthways. 



Bengal, on cultivated land. 



(23) P. TOMENTOSBM. (Roxb.) 



Idmt. Eoxb. flor. Ind. I. 301. 



Sfn. Setaria tomentosa, Kuntli. — Oplismenus tomentosus, Sohult. 



Spec Chab. Caespitose : cidms ascending, almost erect : leaves 

 covered with soft long hairs: sheaths bearded at the throat: racemes 

 composed of 10 — 12 oblong, alternate, 6 — 8-flowered spikes : in- 

 volucels bristly, intermixed, hispid: seed ovate, transversely 

 wrinkled. . '' *■ 



A delicate rare species growing in dry pastures. 



(24) P. caitauctjiatum:. (Nees.) 



Ident. 'N'ees in litt. et Wight herb. — Steudel 1. c. p. 55. 



Syn. P. Myurum, Wight herh. — Aira interrupta, Rottl. Klein. 



Spec.- Chak. Culm. slender, ascending : leaves Hnear-acuminate, 

 flat, and with the sheaths hairy : raceme narrow, lax, compound at 

 the base : branchlets appressed, few-flowered, thin : spikelets 

 alternate on the lower branchlets, on the upper rhachis twin or 



