804 — — *RiANDEIA DigYRTÁ. — Panicum. 
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This is a delicate, rare-species, found growing in tufts; or dry 
pasture ground over various parts of India. | * 
_ Culms, ascending, compressed towards the base; branchy, fron 
twelve to eighteen inches high.— Leaves soft, covered with much. 
long, soft hair; sheaths half the length of the joints ; mouth beard. 
ed.— Spikes compound, terminal, consisting of ten or twelve (genes. 
rally alternate; though sometimes in pairs) spikelets of six or eight, 
flowers, intermixed with hispid bristles, they are not placed onone 
side, but round the common rachis, which is generally three-sid- 
ed.— Calyx, the two interior valves five-nerved ; the second, half’ 
_ the length of the corol, as in P. glaucum.—Corol has a third neu- 
ter valve.— Seed transversely wrinkled, as in P. glaucum. 
.8$. P. verticillatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 334. DA 
| Spikes cylindric. Spikelets quatern, sub-verticelled. [ncolucels, 
backwardly hispid bristles. Seeds oblong, three-nerved, and rugote. 
Hind. Dora-byara. | 
Teling. Chicklenta. E / 
Delights i in a rich soil in out of the way corners, where there is 
rubbish, &c. ; 
_ Culms, below resting on the ground and striking root, above weak, ` 
often leaning over to one side, smooth, length of the Merc e 
from one to two feet, and that of the more erect culms from oue to 
two feet. — Leaves sheathing, linear-lanceolate, a little downy ;mar- 
gins hispid when felt backward’) mouths of the sheaths hairy- P Ü 
' Spikes columnar, compound, from three to four inches long, ge 2 3 
nerzlly matted together by means of the bristly i involucels.—Spike- — 
lets or rather racemelets, tending to be verticelled, generally f four in is 
the verticel, composed of three or four short-pedicels, each b: 
a few flowers ; all intermixed with very stiff bristles (Tucolucel t ame 
ed with pum stiff, recurved points, by which they adhere 
to every thing that touches them.—Ca/yz as in the family. ee 
a third neuter valve, but no stamens to it ,— Seed ibree-nervely à zy 
aliis v waved across, af 
