Panicum, (7 TRIANDRIA DIGYMIA; 305. 
Obs. Cattle will not eat it, so that it is reckoned'à troublesome-- 
weed wherever it is found. 
Plants reared from English seed, were not near so luxuriant.as 
those of India, but evidently the same species, . Thunberg's large. 
cultivated variety is certainly Panicum italicum... Curtis's figurein^ 
his llora Londinensis 1s represented with the leaves broader at the 
base than our Indian plant, or even.than in piapta. reared in India 
from English. seed. ; 
34. P. italicum. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. i. 336. 
Culms erect. Spikes nodding ; spikelets scattered, ovate; pedicels 
fiom two to three or four- flowered, with smooth bristles i intermixed, 
Seed. ovate, three-nerved. 
Panicum. Rumph. Amb. v. p. 202. t. 175. f. 2. 
Sans. ay Kangoo, thay, Priyungoo. 
Beng. Kungoo, and Kungnee,. 
Hind. Kora. 
Teling. Kora ; Koraloo, the grain. 
This is one of the plants called dry or small gram. Tt is cultivat- 
edin many parts-of India, and requires an elevated, light soil. I ne- 
yer saw it wild. i 5 
Culms several from one grain of seed, erect, from three to five feet: 
high, round, smooth; roots issuing from the lower joints. — Leaves, 
margins backwardly hispid ; mouths of the sheaths bearded.— Spikes 
compound, &c. There is more or less ofa third, or neuter valve on. 
the corol. 
Obs. Small plants have the spike more erect, and uniform, with 
out vacancies between the racemelets. 
The seed is an article of diet with the natives. — Tt delights in a 
light, elevated, tolerably dry soil. Seed time for the first crop, about 
the month of June and July ; harvest time in September; produce 
about fifty-fold in a favorable season. A second: crop may be hac 
fom the same ground, between E ert and the cpd of January, 
