Panicum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 285 
PANICUM. Schreb. Gen. N. 107. 
Calyx, Glume one or two-flowered, three-valved : exterior valve- 
jet minute; seed adhering to the corol. 
Sect. 1st. Spikes simple. 
1, P. indicum. Mant. 184. Retz. Obs. iii. p. 9. 
Culms from four to eight inches, ascending from a repent base. 
Spikes sub-cylindric, naked. Calyx smooth, no involucres. 
P. conglomeratum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 341. does not agree 
with our plant in having cylindrical spikes with flowers equally dis- 
_ posed on all sides. This is a very small species, a native of Coro- 
mandel. : 
... 9. P. barbatum. R. 
~ Culms from three to five feet high ; very ramous at top. Leaves lan- 
ceolate. Spikes simple, cylindric. Involucrets simple, and bearded, 
surrounding on every side a single flower ; seed smooth, 
s - This species sprung up in beds, in the Botanic Garden where 
earth had been thrown that came from Sumatra, or Amboyna. 
"Compare with P. polystachyon. Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. i. 335. 
_ Root annual in Bengal.—-Culms erect, about five feet high, sim- 
- ple, till near the top, there very ramous.— Leaves lanceolate, often | 
à foot and a half long, hispid on the margins, otherwise smooth ; 9 
_ the sheaths about half the length of the joints, with a few siugle 
"hairs at the mouth.— — Spikes terminal, and solitary (though from the 
humerous ramification of the top of the culms the whole may be 
called a large leafy panicle). sub-cylindric, about three or four anch-. 
es long.— Involucrets of two sorts, the longest about twice. jhe. | 
length of the flowers with their lower half bearded , (hence | the : speci- : 
fic name, which for the same reason is also applicable to my Pani- 
cum holcoides,) the innermost one is in this species. about d t ibl 
the length of the other five, six, or seven ; all are of a reddish | 
colour from the bearded part to the point. B The other sort of in- 
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