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3. Setaria verticlatail Beauv. Agrost, 51; Kuntli Enum. PL I, 
152; Wall* Cat. n. 8642 A. B. C. D. in part, E. E.; Dalz. & Gibe. 
Bomb. FI. 294 ; Aitch. Cat. Panj. PL 162 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyh PL 105 ; 
Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 9, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 15 ; Benth. FL 
Austral. VII, 494 ; Host Gram. Austr. t. 13; Reichb. Ic. FI. Germ, 
t. 47, fig. 1465 ; T. Nees Gen. FL Germ. Monoc. n. 22 ; Eng. Bot. ed. 
3, t. 1694; Sowerb. Brit. Grass. 63, t. 52; Durand & Scbinz Consp. 
Fl. Afr. V, 774; Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV, Append. Ill, 16; 
Hook. FL Brit. Ind. VII, 80 ; Stapf. in This.-Dyer FL Cap. VII, 429. 
Setaria floribunda Spreng. Syst. I, 305 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8642 E. 
Setaria nubica Link. Hort. Berol. I, 2 20 ; Kunth 1. c. 
Setaria respiciens Hochst. ex Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 467. 
Setaria verticilliformis Dum. FL Belg. 150. 
Setaria Rottleri Spreng. Syst. Veg. I, 304; Steud. Syn. Gram, 153 ; 
Kunth 1. c. 153. 
Panicum aparine Steud. 52. 
Panicum adbaerens Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. p. 20. 
Panicum asperum Lamk. FL Fr. Ill, 577. 
Panicum floribundum Willd. ex Spreng. Syst. I, 306. 
Panicum humile Trin. Gram. Panic. 167. 
Panicum italicum Ucria Hort. Reg. Panorm. 54. 
Panicum respiciens Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. FL Abyss. II, 379. 
Panicum rude Lamk. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 1, 589, 772. 
PanicumverticillatumLinn.Sp.PL ed. 2, 82; Roxb. FL Ind. I, 
301 ; Thw. Enum. 361 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 202 ; Eng. Bot. t. 
874 ; Host Gram. Austr. II, t. 13 ; Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 53 ; Pan. Gen. 
137 et in Mem, Acad. Petersb. ser. 6, III, 225 ; Steud. Syn. PL I, 52. 
Description : — Annual ; culms erect or ascending from a geniculate 
base, J-5 feet long, usually compressed below, more or less branched, 
glabrous, smooth, or scab rid below the panicle, 4-9-noded, internodes 
mostly at length exserted ; sheaths thin, rather lax, usually compressed, 
striate, glabrous or finely hairy upwards ; ligules short, truncate, 
densely ciliate ; blades linear or lanceolate-linear from a broad and 
rounded, or from a narrow base, long tapering to an acute or subseta- 
ceous point, 2-12 inches by 2-6 (rarely up to 12) lines, thin, flat, flaccid, 
scaberulous, usually finely and scantily hairy. 
Panicle erect or curved, spike-like, cylindric or oblong, dense or 
rather lax, 1-5 inches long, coarsely bristly ; axis scabrid and often 
pubescent ; branches spirally arranged, close, in robust specimens the 
lower up to 4 lines long with a distinct scabrid angular rhachis and 
2-nate spikelets, otherwise very short or reduced to sessile clusters, each 
spikelet subtended by a coarse reversely scabrid bristle 2-7 lines long, 
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