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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED 



33595 to 33623 Continued. 



33610. roRinocHLOA cimicina (L.) Nees. 

 iPanicum cimicinum Retz.) 



"(No. 114. September 25, 1911.) From Dehra Dun. A vigorous species 

 growing 2^ feet high. Perhaps of value for Florida range lands." 



/)("5^rj6u/Jon.— Throughout the plains and lower hills of India and eastward 

 to C hina: also in the islands of the Malay Archipelago. 



33611. Penxisetum ciliare (L.) Link. 

 { Pennisetum cenchroides Rich.) 



"(No. 105. September 20. 1911.) From Lucknow. This is the best native 

 hay grass of the Ganges Valley, growing to a height of 2^ feet and forming nearly 

 pure growths. Much of it is cut for hay." 



33612. Pen-nisetum clliare (L.) Link. 

 (Pennisetum cenchroides Rich.) 



" (No. 140, September 29. 1911.) From Lahore." 



Distribution. — First described from South Africa: also found in tropical Africa 

 and in southern Europe and Asia, extending from Sicily eastward to India. 



33613. Pennisetum orientale Rich. 



" (Xo. 134, September 22, 1911.) From Mussoorie. A tall and coarse species 

 growing to a height of 5 feet and quite ornamental . ' ' 



Distribution. — ^Asia Minor and northern Africa, and eastward to India. 



33614. Chaetochloa intermedia (Roem. and Schult.) Stuntz. 



(^Setaria intermedia Roem. and Schult.. Systema Yegetabilium. vol. 2, 

 p. 489, 1817.1 



The seeds of this Indian grass were received as a species of Setaria and were 

 identified as Setaria intermedia, which seems not to have been heretofore trans- 

 ferred to the genus Chaetochloa. 



"HNo. 111. September 14. 1911.) From Pusa. A grass 12 to 24 inches high 

 forming a pure thick growth in the shade of trees."* 



Distribution. — Found on the plains and lower hills of India and in Ceylon. 



33615. Chaetochloa lutescens (Weigel) Stuntz. 



(Panicum lutescens Weigel. Obsers-ationes botanicae. p. 20. 1772.) 



Seeds of this species have been listed in previous numbers of these inventories 

 as Chaetochloa glauca (L.) Scribner. based on Panicum glaucum L. ^Species 

 Plantarum. p. 56, 1753). The type of Linnaeus's species has been determined 

 as Pennisetum glauaim (L.) R. Br., hitherto listed in these inventories as Pen- 

 nisetum americanum (L.) Schum. It is necessarj^ therefore, to adopt for the 

 plant under discussion the earliest specific name, lutescens. 



"(No. 122. September 22, 1911.) From Dehra Dun. A small species with 

 small heads. May have some value as a summer pasture plant." 



33616. Syntherisma sanguinalis (L.) Dulac. 

 (Panicum sanguinale L.) 



''(No. 119, September 21. 1911.) From Dehra Dun. A species closely 

 resembling common crab-grass and of similar value." 



33617. Capriola dactylon (L.) Kuntze. Bermuda grass 

 (Cynodon dactylon Pers.) 



"(No. 136, October 3, 1911.) From Alighur. A species growing in abun- 

 dance at Alighur. India. Apparently is a much more vigorous grower than 

 ordinary crab-grass." 



