MANUAL OF THE GRASSES OF THE WEST INDIES 337 
3. Setaria palmifolia (Willd.) Stapf, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42: 186. 
1914. PALMGRASS. 
Panicum plicatum Willd., Enum. Pl. 1033. 1809. NotP. plicatum 
Lam., 1791. India. 
Panicum palmifolium Willd.; Poir., in Lam., Encycl. Sup. 4: 282. 
1816. Probably India. 
Panicum plicatum var. haitiense Kunth; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 
547. 1864. Haiti. 
Chamaeraphis palmifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 771. 1891. 
Chaetochloa palmifolia Hitche. and Chase, Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 
RSava45. POT. 
Perennial; culms 1 to 
1.5m tall; sheaths papil- 
lose-hispid or glabrate; 
blades strongly plicate, 
flat, pubescent or gla- 
brate, elliptic, narrowed 
to a petiolelike base, 
as much as 50 cm long 
and 6 cm wide; panicles 
loose and open, as much 
as 40 cm long, the 
branches ascending or 
spreading, scattered, 
somewhat distant, espe- 
cially below, 5 to 10 cm 
long, compound; spike- 
lets lanceolate, acute, 
about 3 mm long, closely 
arranged on short 
branchlets appressed 
along the main branches, 
forming interrupted 
compound racemes, the 
bristles inconspicuous, 
usually not more than 
twice as long as the , 
spikelets, often short and FIGURE 307.—Setaria palmifolia, X 1 (Hitchcock 9727). 
imperfectly developed; 
sterile floret with a palea but without stamens (fig. 307). 
Rocky woods and shady banks, often growing in large colonies, a 
native of southeastern Asia; introduced in Jamaica. The varietal 
name ascribed by Grisebach to Kunth was probably a herbarium 
name. It is not found in any of Kunth’s works so far as we know. 
The name Panicum plicatum Lam. has been applied to this species by 
many authors, P. palmifolium Willd. being based upon P. plicatum 
as described by Willdenow.” Panicum palmaefolium Koen.,*? an 
earlier nomen nudum, is probably the same species. 
JAMAICA: Hardware Gap, Ridley in 1916; Harris 10911. St. Helens 
Gap, Mazon and Killip 586. Catherines Peak, Hitchcock 9727. 
Buff Bay, Hitchcock 9762. Buff River, Orcutt 3786. Gordon Town, 
82 Knum. Pl. 1033. 1809. 
83 Naturf. 23: 208. 1788. 
