Panicum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA: ~ $11 
. Root fibrous, white.— Culms many, ramous, below resting on 
the ground and rooting; above erect, a little compressed, smooth ; 
from two to four feet high.— Leaves short and sharp, inside a lic 
tle downy; sheaths shorter than the joints; mouths bearded. In 
paludosum they are surrounded on the inside with hair. Here the 
ramifications are compressed, and somewhat four-sided, there trian- 
gular, and hispid.— Panicle more contracted than in paludosum.— 
Calyx the same.— Corol, with a complete male floret.— Seed oblong, 
smooth. : : | 
Obs. To distinguish it from P. paludosum, attention must be 
. paid to the leaves, ramifications of the panicle, and male florets. 
-~ 45. P. sarmentosum. R. : 
-. Perennial, inane, hairy, sarmentose, with sub-erect, floriferous: 
— shoots from the joints. Panicle patent. Flowers solitary ; calyces 
smooth and obtuse, containing one hermaphrodite and one neu- 
ter floret. 
A native of Sumatra; and from thence introduced by Dr. Charles 
Campbell into the Botanic Garden in 1804, where it grows luxu- 
riantly, and blossoms throughout the year. s 
© Culms round, sarmentose, and of great length, inane, with 1 near- 
ly erect, frequently ramous, floriferous shoots of about two or three 
feet in height rising from the joints; every part clothed with 
much soft hairy pubescence, particularly the runners.— Leaves en- 
_siform, soon becoming reflex, margins hispid, length from six to 
twelve inches, from half to three quarter of an inch in breadth at 
the broadest part.  Sheaths rather longer than the joints.- -Pa~ 
nicle terminal, ovate ; composed of many, single, alternate, patent, 
Compound, smooth branches.—Flowers very numerous, awnless, 
Smooth, solitary, pedicelled.—Valves of the calyx three, obtuse, 
slightly marked with green nerves, the exterior one long, Cones 
à two-valved hermaphrodite flower, and a small neuter one, 
:46. P. miliare. Lamarck. 
Culms erect, ramous, from two to three feet high smooth, Pa: az ; 
