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FLORA OF THE SUNDRIDUNS. 
319 . Setaria Beauv. 
Panicle spiciform, cylindric ; bristles with erect or spreading barbs. 
glauca. 
Panicle subpyramidal, the lower involucels in segregate clusters.; 
bristles with reversed barbs .... verticillata. 
298. Setaria glaiica Beauv. ; F. B. I. vii. 79. Panicum glauciim 
F. I. i. 285. E. D. P 1207. 
Jatta, Prain ! 
Vernac. Pingi Natchi. . 
An erect annual grass ; a moderately good fodder. 
Distrib. — Cosmopolitan in tropical and sub-tropical regions. 
299. Setaria verticillata Beauv. ; F. B. I. vii. 80. Panicum verti- 
cillatum F. I. i. 301. E. D. P 1223. 
Northern clearings^ rare, Calcutta Garden Collectors ! || 
Vernac. Dora^biydra, 
A rank grass ; a tolerable fodder when young. || 
Distrib. — Cosmopolitan in tropical and sub-tropical regions. !; 
330 . Chamserapliis R. Br. j 
300. Chaiiiicraphis spiiiesceiis Poir. ; F. B. I. vii. 62. j 
Northern clearings, in ponds and jhils, Calcutta Garden Collectors ! i 
A matted floating grass ; a poor fodder, 1 
Distrib. — S.-E. Asia ; Australia. | 
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331 . Oryza Linn. || 
Leaves herbaceous with unarmed margins, ligule long 2-partite j I 
panicle lax ; awn very long .... sativa. | 
Leaves coriaceous with spinulose margins, ligule very short ; panicle [ 
spiciform ; awn short, rigid ..... coarctata. || 
301. Oryza sativa Linn. ; F. I ii. 200 ; F. B. I. vii. 92. E. D. o 258. jl 
Everywhere throughout the forests on the sloping alluvium of j 
river-banks from the northern boundary to the sea-face, “ wild, or as | 
an escape from cultivation,” Heinig ! I 
Vernac. Dhdn, || 
An annual grass ; “ of no economic value ” {Heinig). j 
Distrib. — Tropical Australia. 
Heinig’s specimens, from various localities in the Sundribun forests, give 1 
more the suggestion of a condition * feral after escape ’ than of a truly wild stock ; i 
they have stouter stems and fuller ears than undoubtedly wild plants collected in 
fresh-water marshes and jhils elsewhere by King and other Indian botanists. I 
Though apparently as widely spread as the next species, 0 . sativa is rare, whereas j 
the next is exceedingly abundant. All Heinig’s specimens have very long awns. | 
