— Panicum. ERIANDRIA DIGYNIA. :307 
The two exterior ones with sharp subulate points; the inner one 
ends in a pretty long , strong, hispid arista.— Corol, with a third, mem- 
— neuter valve.— Seed ovate, pointed, polished. 
© Obs. It comes near my P. fr —— and may probably - 
the same in its wild state, 
_ 87. P. frumentaceum. R- 
- Culms erect, from two to four feet high. Panicle erect; spikes 
secund, incurved ; flowers three-fold, unequally pedicelled. Valve- 
lets of the calyces daggered, or awned ; seed ovate, smooth. 
Sans. Sg mao "Shyamaka.- < ; cU 
Beng. Shama. 
_ Teling.. Bonta-shama ; shamaloo, the grain. 
"This L have only found in a state of cultivation, it delights i in 
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a light, tolerably dry, rich soil; the same ground yields two crops 
between the first of the rains in June, July, and the end of January. 
Culms erect, ramous, a little compressed, smooth, from two to 
four feet high.— Leaves large, margins hispid.— Panicle erect, ob- 
long, rigid, composed of numerous, secund, condensed, incurved 
; spikes; they entirely surround the common rachis and sometimes 
tend to þe verticelled. Rachis, common five or six-sided, a little hai- 
ty; partial three-sided, waved.— Flowers almost always three from 
the same point, one sessile, the second short pedicelled, and the third 
: a little longer pedicelled.—Calyx, with all the glumes three-nerved ; 
the two large daggered.— Corol, with a third neuter valve.—Sced 
ovate, pointed, smooth. - | 
` Obs. "There are several varieties of it known to the Hindoo far- 
mers, The seed is wholesome and nourishing, it is au article of 
diet, particularly amongst the lower classes of the natives, -It yields 
; icm fifty-told i in a good soil. . Cattle are fond of it. 
| Sec. 6th. Panicled. 
~ 38. p. trigonum. Linn: Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 859. ps 
Culms creeping. Panicle halved. Leaves itipsleds Pedicels two- 
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