Panicum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 303 
Culns, creeping to the extent of from one to two feft, e geniculate, 
smooth, often coloured.— Leavés lanceolate, base cordate, stem- 
clasping, and ciliate. Sheaths shorter than the joints, somewhat hai- 
ry.—Spikes from four to ten, small, short, sessile, secund, equally 
inserted on the*four or six-sided, villous rachts.— Flowers ges 
nerally paired, and both unequally pedicelled, with an involucre 
of long soft hairs on the outside of the pedicel.— Calyz, exterior 
valve minute, and truncate, the inner two equal, five-nerved. —Co- 
rol, with a neuter valve. | ae : ene 
81. P. hirsutum. Kin. 
Leaves broad-lanceolate, with cordate, stem-elasping base, wave | 
ed, ciliate, and hairy. Flowers, polygamous, solitary, sessile. Seed 
ovate, transversely rugose. 
Hind. Jal-ganti, 
 Teling. Salla-woodoo. 
Is found on the borders of cultivated land, on pasture ground, &c. 
Culms, spreading at the base ; resting on the ground and rooting 5 
. above ascending; joints downy.—Leaves broad, base cordate and 
embracing the culms, much waved, hairy, with the edges ciliate ; 
sheaths also hairy with a thick beard round the mouths.— Spikes 
composed of six or twelve, simple, alternate, secund, expanding ` 
spikelets, surrounding a common, four or five-sided, hairy rachis, 
— Partial, rachis three-sided, hairy — Flowers in two rows, single, 
alternate, sessile, often intermixed with bristles.— Calyx, all the 
valves hairy and striated.— Corol ; a complete, one-valved male flo- 
ret in the same calyx with the hermaphrodite.— Seeds ovate, trans- 
versely rugose, white, daggered. j 
Obs. Cattle are very fond of it. 
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39. P. tomentosum. R. i 
Culms, sub-erect. Leaves hairy ; spikes from ten to twelve, ob: 
long, from six to eight-flowered, intermixed with hispid bristly i invo- . 
lucels, Seed ovate, transversely wrinkled. — 
