Panicum, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. °287 
© Obs. It agrees perfectly well with our Indian species of Pani. 
cum, on that account I have transferred it to that genus. 
' This species is much cultivated over the higher lands on the 
Coast of Coromandel. The soil it likes is one that is loose and 
‘rich ; in such it yields upwards of an hundred fold, the same ground 
will yield a second crop of this or some other sort of dry grain dur- 
ing October, November, December, and January. 
The Hindoo farmer knows four other varieties of this species, 
all of which he cultivates. "Their Telinga names are 1st. Pitta (birds) 
Gantee; 9d. Munda-boda-Gantee ; Sd. epit ton ; and 
4th. Yerra-Gantee. j 
Cattle are fond of the straw, and the grain is a very ku 
ticle of diet amongst the natives of these parts. 
A, P. incolucratum. R. 
Erect. Spikes cylindric, numerous, scattered, two-flowered, al- 
ternately longer and ciliate; shorter and smooth. Calyces two-valv- 
ed, the exterior one minute, the inner one shorter than the corol, 
and emarginate. 
A native of mountains chiefly, where it grows wild. 
Culms as in the last species, from two to four feet high; joints 
woolly.— Leaves, mouths of their sheaths bearded .— Spikes as in P. ! 
spicatum, but the pedicels smaller, two-flowered — Involucre, many 
bristles surrounding on all sides the flowers, they are of two sorts, 
— simple ones awled, and longer ones with fringed margius.—Calyr 
one or two-flowered ; valvelets as in the last species.— Coro/, when 
there is only one to the calyx it is hermaphrodite, when, two, one 
hermaphrodite the other male as in the last species — Styles two. — 
Obs. I know of no use this is put to at present ; it may be Pani- 
cum spicatum in its wild state, though it is more like my Pani- 
cum hee in its ee w " ns 
5. P. iin. Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. Willd. i. 335, a 
‘Culms erect, from one to three feet high ; onotweet one bundle of 
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