288 : TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Panicum, 
hairy bristles, one-flowered. Flowers generally polygamaun Seed 
transversely rugose. 
Beng. Pingi-natchi. 
Teling. Naka-kora. . aD 
'This species is generally found on cultivated lands, growing 
amongst the different sorts of small or dry grain. ; 
Root fibrous.—Culms sometimes near the base restiug on the 
ground, aud striking root ; the rest erect, ramous, smooth, a little 
compressed ; from one to three feet high.— Leaves sheathing, nearly, 
Bifarious, smooth; mouths of the sheaths hairy.— Spikes terminal, 
columnar, from two to six inches long.— lowers solitary, or joined à 
to the rudiments of one or two more, short-pedicelled, numerous. 
—Involucels longer than the flowers, consisting of one bundle of i 
hairy bristles which issue from the middle of the underside of the 
pedicel.—Calyx generally two-flowered, in which case one is male, 
| the other hermaphrodite, with its corol, as in the family. "The male 
corol consists of one membranaceous glume between the inner va. Nec 
of the coro] and inner glume of thé calyx, it has. three stamens 
only. - 
Obs. It may probably be P. helvolum of the Supplementum Plam 
tarum. P. 107. Ko 
In India we have two or three varieties of this. coarse grass, can 
-any of them be Alopecurus : gach add the small reddish one comes very, 
near it. 
.. 6. P. holcoides. R. 
Erect. Incolucels numerous, scattered, one: floswered, alternate-, 
ly one longer and woolly, and another shorter and smooth vimm 
sometimes polygamous. — Seed oblong, smooth, resembling ga 
grain of common oats. 
Beng. Swati. - k 
Grows, with the former, on cultivated lands, but choy up ? 
amongst the mountains. 5 
Rost fibrous.— Culms erect, ramous, i om two to four. feet igh, | 
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