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286 TRIANDRIA DIGYNI A» Panicun. 
volucrets are simple and about the length of the flowers. The 
two sorts surround on all sides a single flower.— Calyx one-flower- 
ed, exterior valve very minute.— Seeds smooth, slender and-pointed. 
Obs. It differs from my P. holcoides in the culms being very ramous 
at the top only, and in the leaves being lanceolate ; from polys/a- 
chyon it differs, Í think, in having two sorts of involucrets equally dis- 
posed round the flower, aud in the leaves being lanceolate and smooth. 
3. P. spicatum. Á. 
Erect. Spikes cylindric. Involucreshairy, surrounding from one to 
ihreeawnless polygamous flowers, Calyces two-valved, both shortet 
than the corol, the inner longer and retuse, 
Holcus spicatas. Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. iv. 928. 
Gramen paniceum, Pluck. &c. alm. t. 32. f. 4. good, ; 
Hind. Bujera, or Bujra. TE 
; Pene a-G antee is. _ TERME name of the plant, and Cantilo, * 
I ui ay found this i ina aeta | state. It is sown "m à 
the beginning of the rains, viz. the end of J une, and the beginning of . 
July, and ripe in September. 5 
Culms several, if the soil is good, from the same grain of x 
erect, with roots from the lowermost joint or two, round, smooth, 
from three to six feet high, and nearly as thick as the little finger. 
— Leaves alternate, sheathing, broad and long; mouths of the — 
sheaths bearded.— Spikes or rather racemes, terminal, cylindric, erect, - 
as thick as a man's thumb, or more, and from six to nine inches 3 
long.  Pedicels generally two-flowered, though sometimes only 
one and sometimes as many as four.— Flowers surrounded with ma- 
ny, woolly, hispid purple bristles or involucres, about the length of 
the flower Calyx two-flowered, one hermaphrodite the other male, 
two-valved; exterior valvelet minute, interior nearly as long as "the 
corol, retuse, both awnless.-—Corol of the hermaphrodite flower 
two-valved, of the male one-valved.— Szyle single. Stigma apes 
cleft, feathery. —Seed obovate, =o smooth, m 
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