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Panicum. —— TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 201 
 wndivided fora short distance. Stigma plumose.—Seed oblong, dark 
brown, dotted; on the anterior side near the base is an oblong e 
vated mark. — . 
Obs. Dr. Rottler, of Madras, an excelient Botanist, obliged me 
with the only specimens of this rare grass which I have yet met 
' with, and had he not informed me that this was considered to be P, 
dimidial um I should have been inclined to have taken it for an ie 
chaemum, 
Sect. 2d. Spikes paired, ; 
.10. P. conjugatum. eos 
Spikes conjugate, secund. Fi lowers solitary, sessile, awnless. Co- 
rol, with an acceséary neuter valve. -< : 
A slender, soft, villous, half créeping species ; ; a native of Coro- 
mandel. It differs from P. distachyon in the number of the, spikes 
being constantly two, and the flowers always solitary and sessile. 
To these-marks of distinction may be added that the valves of the 
eal} x are three-nerved, and the accessary one pieds large. 
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"Ur p squarrosum. Linn. sp: Pl, ed. Willd. i. 345. Retz. Obs. iv. 
15. and v. t. 1. : : 
Culms creeping, from ten to twenty inches iu Spikes SE 
horizontal, rachis articulate ; flowers i ina fuscicle on the upper: end: 
: of each joint of the rachis. 
Cenchrus muricatus. Mant. 302. 
. P. dimidiatum. Burm. Ind. 25. t. 8. yw 
_ A native of dry sandy ground near the sea. 
. Culmsbr ranchy, creeping, with- their lower-bearing extremities sub. 
erect; from ten to twenty incheslong.— Leaves short, butratherbroad, 
and covered with soft hair; shéath large, downy, involving most of 
, the cilms.—Spikes two, terminal, spreading, horizontal, or ascend- 
A 
ing like a pair of horns, secuud. ^ Rachis composed of from four _ 
hd eight, oblong jut divided by a waved ridge ; jon each side of 
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