Panicum, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 297 
long. Spikelets numerous, approximate, longer than the i ipai: 
Flowers hermaphrodite, oblong, two exterior valvelets of the caly- 
- ces minute ; seed oblong. 
Béng. Peti-nar. 
Teling. Doosa. : A 
Bah i in a moist rich soil, such as the banks o£ water-cours- 
_ es, borders of rice fields, &c. 
Culms at the base creeping, above nearly erect, round, smooth, 
from one to four feet ‘long, including the part that rests on the 
ground.— Leaves smooth, except about the mouths of the sheaths 
where they are bearded, and sub-ciliate.—Spike compound, se- 
cund, exceedingly like that of P. brizoides, only here it is generally 
de: lon gab, with often as many as twenty-five or thirty spikelets ; their dis. 
tance from one another is not so regular and is generally less than 
their own length.— Flowers disposed in two rows on the outside of 
the spikelets, which are oblong.— Calyx one-flowered, the two ex- 
terior valves very small,— Seed oblong, pointed, pon: 
fl. P. posed uim Linn. Sp. Fl. ed, Willd. i..331. 
Culms, creeping. Leaves lanceolate, mouths of their sheaths.ele- 
Vated and bearded. Flowers hermaphrodite ; valvelets of the caly- 
ces equal, the exterior.one awned. Seed smooth, oblong. 
P. aristatum, of the same author, seems the same grass... - 
Compare with P. compositum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 346, . 
In the Banksian Herbarium the same species js labelled P. un- 
guinosum. -Grows under the shade of trees. 
Culms creeping, ramous, with theiz extremities, from one to two 
feet high, sub-erect.— Leaves lanceolate, waved, often tinged with 
Purple; sheaths shorter than the joints, hairy; mouths elevated, 
Stipula-like; and hairy.— Spikes composed, secund ; fiom six to 
_ twelve inches long. Spikelets alternate, somewhat remote, secund, 
direction between expanding and adpressed. Rachis, common and 
partial three-sided.— Flowers. generally paired, one-sessile, the other 
short-pedicelled;. insertions often surrounded with hairs, when single 
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