SETARIA ITALICA AND ITS IMMEDIATE ALLIES 
Varies from the subspecies mainly in having brown setae which are 
short, but at least twice the length of the spikelets about 6 mm. long. 
Panicle rather slender, lobulate, somewhat loosely so and interrupted 
at the base, 13 to 17 cm. long, 13 to 15 mm. in diameter. Spikelets 
small. Fruit orange-brown. 
This form undoubtedly passes into subvar. condensa. 
Range. — I have seen specimens from Assam and the Philippines. 
Setaria ITALICA (L.) Beauv. subsp. rubrofructa Hubb. var. 
RUBRA (Kornicke) Hubb. forma aurantiaca (Kornicke) comb. nov. 
Panicum italicum var. aurantiacum Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. 
Handb. Getreideb. i : 275 (1885) : Wern. in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. 2: 895 
(1885). Setaria persica Hort., S. brevifolia Hort., Panicum macrurum 
Hort., and P. eriogonum Hort. all ex Kornicke in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. 
i: 275 (1885) sub P. italicum var. aurantiacum. 
Setae shorter than or barely exceeding the spikelets; panicles 
9 to 10 cm. long, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter, otherwise like the variety.'^ 
Range. — Only specimen examined, Philippines — Luzon, Ramos in 
1909, Bur. Sci. Philipp. no. 7842. Kornicke mentions the form from 
Algeria. 
Setaria italiaca (L.) Beauv. subsp. rubrofructa Hubb. var. 
RUBRA (Kornicke) Hubb. subvar. condensa subvar. nov. 
Differt a varietate panicula breviore non lobata. 
This form differs from the variety in having shorter, dense, not- 
lobed panicles, with some scattered empty tufts of setae below the 
dense portion: measurements without these tufts 4.8 to 6.5 cm. long, 
about 10 mm. in diameter. Plant about 5 dm. tall and rather slender: 
leaves smaller and narrower. Fruit rather more orange-red than the 
variety. 
Range. — Only specimen seen, Assam, Chatterjee in 1902^ [type in 
Gray herb.]. 
Setaria italica (L.) Beauv. subsp. nigrofructa nom. nov. Panicum 
italicum var. nigrum Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. Handb. Getreideb. 
i: 274 (1885): Wern. in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. 2: 893 (1885). 
According to Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. i: 274 (1885) this 
form has thick panicles somewhat shorter and less lobulate than 
Panicum italicum var. erythrospermum Kornicke — which is a synonym 
^ Kornicke, in Korn. & Wern. 1. c. i: 275 (1885) gives somewhat larger measure- 
ments — panicle up to 17 cm. long, and up to 20 mm. in diameter. 
^ Material of this collection in the U. S. Nat. Herb, is var. rubra. 
