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culmo adscendente ramosissimo, vaginis foliisque lanceolato-linearibus glabris. Trin. MSS. 

 N. ab E. Agrost. Bras. 2. p. 199. Kunth, En. 1. p. 100. — P. ramosum. Koen. in Herb. Banks, 

 (fide herb. Trin.) — P. virgatum. Roxb. (fide ejusd.) 



Hab. Circa Macao urbcm ; Millett. 



Est species distinctissima, habitu e capillarium et virgatorum indole mixto. Culmus 1-2 pedes altu*. 

 Nodi glabri. Vaginae glabrae, etiam margine, ore solo barbato, cingulo luteo infra laminam, ut in P. miliari, 

 notatoe. Folia. 4 pollices longa, glabra, margine scabriuscula. PaniculcB rami gracilcs, spatio quodam supra 

 basin raraificati, compressi. Hamuli adpressi, demum patuli. Pedicelli uniflori, spicula lineam longa duplo 

 ssepe longiores, uti ramuli flexuosi, prirnum pallidi, a?tate purpurascentes. Quod ad spiculas, si derais mag- 

 nitudinem, accedit P. miliari et colorato, sed inflorescentia longe diff'crt, P. capillare magis referens. 



[Roxburgh has no where described a P. virgatum, nor attached that name to any of his drawings ; we 

 presume, therefore, that he must have merely given it incidentally to some of Koenig's specimens in the 

 Banksian Herbarium.] 



6. V.glaucum; racemo spicato cylindrico, involucellis subbifloris multisetis spiculis duplo 

 longioribus rigidis flavis antrorsum scabris, flosculo masculo bivalvi hermaphrodito undula- 

 to-rugoso, culmo adscendente sub inflorescentia anguloso, foliis culmo brevioribus lineari- 

 lanceolatis basi barbatis. Linn. — Willd. En. Hort. Ber. 2. p. 1030. N. ab E. Agrost. Bras. 

 2. p. 240. (cum syn.) Trin. Ic. Gram. t. 195. Roxb. FL Ind. 1. p. 284. (ed. Wall.) h p. 

 287. — Setaria glauca. Roem. et Sch. Syst. 2. p. 490. — 18. spiculis demum purpurascentibus 

 et purpureo-fuscis. — P. purpurascens. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. I. p. 110. Kunth, 

 En. 1. p. 151. 



Hab. /3. circa Macao urbem ; G. H. Vachett, n. 45. b. 



Involucellis brevioribus rigidioribus spiculisque majoribus facile distinguitur a P. penicillato. 



7. P. penicillatum ; racemo spicato cylindrico elongato, ramulis bifloris, involucellis uni- 

 floris multi (6-)-setis spicula triplo quadruplove longioribus gracilibus antrorsum scabris, 

 flosculo hermaphrodito mucrone incurvo transversim untlulato-rugoso, neutro masculove 

 bivalvi, culmo erecto glabro sub racemo angulato-sulcato, foliis lineari-elongatis supra 

 glaucis scabris basi plerumque barbatis. Herb. Willd. — N. ab E. Agrost. Bras. 2. p. 242. — 

 P. glaucum. Kunth, En. 1. p. 149. {nec Auct. Europ.) Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 

 I. p. 109. 



Hab. Circa Macao urbcm ; Millett. Vachell, n. 37. b. 



8. P. Italicum; racemo terminali erecto vel nutante decomposito lobato-spiciformi elonga- 

 to, rachi hirsuta, racemis partialibus confertissimis ovatis oblongisve densifloris, involucellis 

 sub singula spicula unisetis spicula triplo et ultra longioribus flexuosis antrorsum (i. e. re- 

 trorsum tangenti) scabris, flosculo inferior! neutro valvula superiori minuta, hermaphrodito 

 subtiliter punctulato, culmo erecto ramoso vaginisque lsevibus, foliis late linearibus supra 

 scaberrimis ligulai loco stricte barbatis. Linn. Sp. PL p. 83. Roxb. El. Ind. hp. 302. (ed. 

 Wall.) hp. 305. Trin. Ic. Gram, t. 198.— Setaria Italica. Kunth, En. hp. 153.— Penni- 

 setum Italicum. Br. Prod. hp. 195. 



Hab. Circa Macao urbem et in insulis vicinis ; Millett. G. H. Vachell. 



