314 : “BRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Panicum. 
mifications rather remote, above approximate, and composed of 
unilateral short spikelets.— Flowers solitary, paired, or threefold, 
when more than one they are on pedicels of unequal lengths ; some- 
times there is a single coloured bristle from the pedicels of the ex- 
terior flowers.— Calyx three-valved, two-flowered, one of the flow- 
ers male, with a corol of one membranaceous glume ; the other her- 
maphrodite, and having the usual two-valved corol.— Seed oblong, 
rugose on the convex-side. 
Obs. It is of too coarse a nature for cattle, but its foliage make 
it ornamental in the shrubbery, or flower-border. 
50. P. nervosum. R. 
- Erect, from three to four feet high. Leaves Janceolate, plaited; 
sheaths longer than the joints, with the mouths bearded. Panicle vee 
ry thin, composed of long, simple, filiform, remote branches. Flow- 
ers generally single, with a neuter valve to the corol. ca 
From Nepala Dr. Buchanan sent the seed to the Botanic Gar- 
den, where the plants blossomed in October, just one year from the 
time the seed Was sown. : gis cs ege d RAO 
Root perennial.— Culms erect, slender, completely invested in the- 
sheaths of the leaves, except from six to twelve inches below the 
panicle; height three or four feet.— Leaves lanceolate, plaited; 2 
little hairy, particularly near the base, from six to twelve inches long, | 
and one and a half broad.— Sheaths longer than the joints, a little 
hairy ; mouths bearded.— Panicle very thin, and composed of ong, 
simple, filiform, drooping branches. Spikelets remote near the 
base, secund, bearing a few alternate, generally single flowers: 
— Calyx three-valved, smooth, from three to seven-nerved.— Cora : 
with a third neuter valve, but no stamens. sho nue Dnm $ 
Obs. In foliage this agrees very exactly with my Panicum plica- 
tum, but differs widely in the panicle. : dsl os 
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51. P. costatum. R. : : 
Culms creeping. Leaves lanceolate, plaited, very hairy, 4 also 
