i Panicum, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 293 
held sacred to oGunesha, (the Janus of im ancients,) under the name 
of Beorteali.: 
13. P. aegyptiacum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 543. 
'. Creeping at the base. Spikes from four to eight ; corymbed, smooth. 
Flowers paired on unequal pedicels; accessary valve of the calyx - 
minute or wanting, the other two very unequal, nerved, and ciliate 
on the margins. only. $ x : | 
Obs. Is rather a scarce grass in India, and grows in tufts. Cattle 
do not seem fond of it, whereas all are fond of P. dactylon. 
14. P aliie. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 344.. 
.. Culms creeping at the base. Spikes sub-digitate. Flowers paired, 
one sessile the other pedicelled; inner two valves of the calyces | 
equally long, and bearded with four woolly ridges; third minute. 
— Hind. Makurjalee. — 
Teling.-Shangali-gaddi: £ 
It delights’ most in newly laid down pasture ground. 
~ Culms creeping, with one or two feet of the extremitieserect, these 
ramous, round and smooth.— Leaves sheathing, short for the size of 
, 3 . =." E m | os he . & i 
the grass ; margins ciliate near the base; sheaths sometimes alittle — 
_ hairy, shorter than the joints of the culm, their mouths rise above 
the insertion of the leaf, stipule-like, as in Dr. Smith's Erharta 
calycina, but here it is entire.—Spikes or rather spiked-racemes, 
from four to ten, digitate, expanding, secund.— Flowers paired, one 
sessile, one peduncled.— Rachis three-sided, waved.—Calyz, exterior 
valve, most. minute. Interior two many-nerved, four of the nerves are 
clothed with very long, white, soft hairs. : 
Obs. Small plants on a poor soil, have much the (— of A 
Agrostis radiata. Cattle are — fond of this grass. ! d 
15. P. filiforme. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 343. 
‘Creeping, filiform, smooth, Spikes, e two to ced vib-digi- 
| : 
* 
