234 CLXiii. GRAMiNE^. \Cyriococcum. 
(3) C. accrescens Staff. MSS. Panicum accrescens Trin. Sp. 
Gram. Ic. t, 88. P. patens Ridl. Mat. iii. 142. 
Creeping and rooting grass ascending, glabrous or hairy. Leaves 
thin lanceolate acuminate, 2 to 6 in. long, *5 in. wide, base broad. 
Panicle 6 to 9 in. long, wide, spreading with capillary branches 
and branchlets; pedicels capillary, -i in. long. Spikel'ets minute 
pyriform, purple brown. Glume I about half as long as glume II 
semi-ovate, boat-shaped; glume III broader, blunt. Grain semi- 
ovate, gibbous, yellow. Hah. Common on shady rides in or on 
the edge of forests. Singapore, Chan Chu Kang; Bukit Timah 
(Hullett); Tanglin. Johor, Kwala Kahang (KeLsall). Malacca 
(Griffith); Ayer Moleh (Ridley); Hulu Rejang (Derry). Pahang, 
Tahan Woods (Ridley). Lubok Tamang, Bertam River (Hender¬ 
son). Simgei Ujong, Port Dickson. Selangor, Klang (Fox), leaves 
hairy all over; Ulu Langat (Kloss). Dindings, Lumut. Perak, 
Larut (Kunstler), glumes hairy at tips. Penang Hill (Curtis). Kelan- 
tan, Sungei Lebeh (Yapp). Distrib. India, Malaya, Polynesia, 
China. Native name: Rumput Telor Ikan. 
45 . SETARLA, Beauv. 
Annual grasses; panicles spiciform. Spikelets i- (rarely 2-) 
flowered, in clusters, oblong to ovate, on short pedicels with a 
persistent involucel of scabrid bristles (barren branchlets). Glume I 
half as long as glume III, ovate; glume II ovate longer; glume III 
neuter (rarely male); glume lY coriaceous convex, bisexual. 
Stamens 3. Grain free. Species about 100, warm and temperate 
regions. 
Panicle large nodding.(i) S. italica 
Panicle erect spiciform.(2) S. nibiginosa 
Panicle very large spreading; leaves broad plicate . (3) S. plicata 
(1) S. italica Beauv. Agrost. 51; Hook. fit. F.B.I. vii. 78; 
Ridl. Mat, iii. 144. 
Grass 2 to 5 ft. tall, stout. Leaves 18 in. long, i in. across. 
Panicle very thick, nodding cylindric or compound, 8 in. long. 
The Italian Millet, known as Iskoi by the Malays, is cultivated to a small 
extent, and occurs as an escape by the Pahang River and on the Sungei 
Chenei. 
(2) S. rubig-inosa Miq. FI. Nederl. Ind. iii. 467. S. glauca 
Griff. Not'ulcB, 44; Ic. PI. t. 149, fig. i; Hook. ffl. F.B.I. vii. 79 
part; Ridl. Mat. iii. 144 (not of Beauv.). 
A tufted annual, i to 2 ft. tall, slender, glabrous. Leaves 
narrow linear, 6 in. long, -12 in. wide. Panicle narrow cylindric, 
■5 to 5 in. long, orange, more rarely purplish or green, bristles 6 to 
12 to a spikelet, orange, -15 in. long. Spikelets ovoid, greenish, half 
as long. Hah. Common sporadically in waste ground, by rice- 
fields, and on waysides, a weed. Singapore (Hullett); Tanglin. 
Johor, Castlewood; Sungei Tehran. Pahang, Pekan (Evans). 
