$12 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Pantewtit 
 nicle thin ; flowers paired on a common pedicel, with unequal par- 
tial pedicels ; corol three-valved ; seed ovate, smooth, five-streaked, 
. Teling. Nella-shama. Nella-shamaloo, the grain. 
This species I have found only in a cultivated state, it is one of 
the sorts of dry or small grain which is generally cultivated on an 
elevated, light, rich soil. 
~ Culms, many from the same seed, erect, branchy, round, smooth, 
from two to three feet high.— Leaves smooth.— Panicle oblong, 
- beautifully bowing with the weight of the grain ; branches alternate, 
ramous ; capillary, angular, hispid.— Flowers oval, paired upon a 
common pedicel, with unequal partial pedicels.— Ca/yces, glumes 
smooth, striated lengthways with nerves,—Corol, accompauied by 
a neuter valve.—Seed oval, striated, smooth, shining brown. _ : ; 
Obs. The seed is an article of diet with those Hindoos who inha- 
bit the higher lands, - Cattle are fond of the straw. T 
47. P. miliaceum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 348. : 
Culms erect, ramous, from two to four feet high; the whole plant. 
very hairy. Panicle oblong ; glumes of the calyces cuspidate ; corol. 
three-valved ; adventitious valve two-toothed ; seed oval, smooth, 
five-streaked. isse yl 
Sans. Alga, Vreehibheda, NT: Unoo. 
Hind. and Beng. Cheena. es 
Teling. Worga ; Worglo, the grain. icai 
—. "This is another of the cultivated cerealia ; the same soil suits it 
as is proper for the last described species. Time of culture imme 
diately after the rams. A era - i 
Culms many from the same seed, erect, ramous, very hairy ; from 
two to four feet high.— Leaves large, with Tong sheaths, which in* 
volve most part of the culms, every part covered with much white - 
hair.—Panicle as in the former, only here and there a few 
hairs.— Calyx all the three glumes are much pointed.— Corol the 
neuter valve is here emarginate. Nectary two, triangular, emargin- 
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