274. -© TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA: - Jndropógón, —— 
immediately east of Bengal. ‘Fhe grain is milk white; some of itwas - 
sown in the Botanic Garden, during the early part of the rainy seas 
son of 1812, and in November the plants were from ten to fifteen 
feet high, sevér al ramous stems arising from the same root, or grain - 
-of seed ; all the joints of the lower half of the original stems which 
dre as thick as a slender walking dane, throw out copiously verticels 
of roots from all the joint, the lower ones near the soil enter it, and - 
give additional support and nourishment to the plants, which are of — 
two, or more years duration, if suffered to remain ; the leaves are 
ftom twenty to forty inches long, by two or three broad; softand smooth, 
the rib white on both sides. Panicles large, oval on the more slen-- 
der branches, and in those, while in flower eréct ; but in such as 
. terminate the primary stems the form is obscure, from the drooping 
- habit of their branches. The flowers agree with those of Sorghum, ; 
except ‘that the awn is so/small and short as to be hid within the - 
glume of the calyx; ; the neuter flowers are very minute, and consist. 
of only one of two slender, villous, calycine glumes. ‘The grain of 
this plant is the staff of life of those wild. savare mountaineers, who 
inhabit the above mentioned countries, where it is one of the few 
articles cultivated by. them. Cattle are fond of the straw, or rather 
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canes. 
29. R sa Ap df: R. f 
Erect, Panicles verticelled, with ramifications drooping. Calyz 
hairy, corols awnless ; — three-valved, neuter one-valv- - 
, ed. 
flolcus RENE Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. iv. - 930. ` 
`- “Hind. and Beng. Deo-dhan. 
Is much cultivated over various parts ‘of baat during the rainy 
and cold seasons upon land which is too high for rice.. ka 
Root ramous.— Culms erect, round, jointed, sometimes ramous, 
lower joints radicating, from eight to twelve feet high, three or fout - 
inches in circumference near the base.—Leav es bifarious, sheathing 
sword- depen, margins hispid, the rest smooth, with a white nerve 
