292 | TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, - Panicum, 
the ridge membranaceous.— Flowers collected in sessile bundles of 
from four to eight, alternately disposed on the upper end of each t 
joint. —Calyz, the exterior one minüte, and lanceolate ; the second 
large, embracing loosely the corol, pointed, and ROM ; the inner 
one nearly as small as the exterior, tapering from the base to a fine 
pojnt, three-nerved ; margins fringed, of a chaffy texture.— Corol as - 
in the genus, and rather longer than the inner glume of the calyx, — 
here is a third neutral membranaceous valve, as in many species of | 
this genus. 
» 
«. Sect. 3d. Spikes etes 
12. P. dactylon. te b. Pi. ed. Willd. i. 349. 
Smooth, creeping. Spikes digitate, secund, cae gibbous on one . 
side, and twice as long as the calyces. . i 
“Agrostis linearis. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 375. Retz, Obs, i iv. 
N. 51. Sir W. Jones. Asiat. Res. iv. p. 248. | 
Sans. Sat Doorva, Way aa Shutupurvika, asada. Su. 
- husruveery ya, ATH at, Bharguvee, GED Caen, bunk Ununta, 
Beng. Doorba, ` 
Teling. Ghericha. Ef 
Tam. Arugam-pilla. " . : PEE Ro 
This is by far the most common and useful grass in Inda. It 
grows every where abundantly, and flowers all the year, — 
Root creeping.— Culms creeping, with their flower-bearing branche 
lets erect, from six to twelve inches high, smooth.— Leaves small, - T 
. and smooth.— Spikes. from three to five, terminal, sessile, filiform, © 
expanding, secund, from one to two inches long. - - Rachis waved. - 
— Flowers, alternate, single, disposed i in two rows on the underside. 
—Calyx much smaller than the corol.—Corol, the large « or exterior 
valve boat-shaped, keel slightly ciliate.—Stigmas villous, purple. zi 
_ Obs, This most valuable grass forms three-fourths of the food of 
our borer and cows in India, Iti is ae the brahmuns of the Coasts 
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