585 



(64.) P. STIGMATOSA. (Griffith.) 



Griff. 1. c. p. 42. 



Spec. Chae. Culm somewhat simple, glabrous at the knots : 

 sheaths ciliated at the edge and with the necks bearded : leaves 

 lanceolate-acuminate, cordate at the base, rough on both sides : 

 panicle effuse, slightly scabrous : branchlets S-flowcred, glumes 

 nearly equal : male floret exceeding the female : palese of the female 

 flower minutely pubescent, the outer one ciliate. ' 



Boorea Barak, a little below Luckipoor, on the banks of the 



(65) P. VEETicuLATUM. flAnn.J 



Ident. Linn. sp. 82. — ^Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 294. 



Syn. Setaria yeitieiUata, .ff«a««;. ^^»"o«l 51. Pennisetum verti- 

 cillatum. Brown prod. 195. 



Eng. Bot. t. 874. -Host. Gram II. t. 13. Trin. Ic. 17 



t. 202. 



Spec. Chae. Culms below resting on the ground and rooting, 

 above weak, leaning to one side, smooth : leaves sheathing, linear- 

 lanceolate, a little downy, margins hispid, mouths of the sheaths 

 hairy : spikes cyHndric, compound sub-verticelled : bristles of the 

 involucels reversely hispid : hermaphrodite florets rather smooth. 



Common about rubbish heaps in the Peninsula. 



GENUS VII. MILIUM. 



Triandrist Dig'ynia. Sex: Syst! 



Deriv. From MUh a thousand, alluding to the immense number 

 of seeds produced by it. 



Gen. Chae. Inflorescense panicled : spikelets hermaphrodite, 

 elliptic-oblong, acutish, 1 -flowered: glumes membranaceous equalling 

 or slightly exceeding the floret : perianth sessile, elliptic or lanceo- 

 late-oblong, papery and somewhat coriaceous, muticous, the lower 

 palea overlapping the upper one : hypogynous scales either ovate 

 acute, or unequally denticulate, or cuneiform emarginate : ovary 

 oblong, glabrous : styles two : stigmas branched-plumose : stamens 

 three, anthers linear : caryopsis oblong, slightly compressed, free. 



(1) M. EAMOsiJM. (Linn. J 



Ident. Linn. sp. I. 361.— Koxb. flor. Ind. I. 315. Griffith 

 notulae p. III. p. 16. 



