“Panicum. nee TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 315 
their sheaths, which are shorter than the joints. Panicle compos- 
ed of short expanding, secund, spiked-racemes. Flowers polygamous, 
Introduced into the Botanic Garden from the Mauritius, by Cap- 
tain Tennant, in 1802. ' | 
‘Culms creeping, throwing out numerous strong roots from the 
joints; length from three to six feet.— Leaves lanceolate, plaited, 
hairy ; about six inches long, by one broad.—Sheaths shorter than 
the joints, very hairy.— Panicle oblong, smooth, composed ofsome- 
what compound, secund, spiked-racemes, with here and there an 
arista-like coloured bristle —Calyx three-valved, smooth, from 
three to five-nerved.—Corol three-valved, two-flowered i the exte- 
tior floret one-valved and male. Seed transversely rugose. 
Obs, In the foliage this is perfectly like my P. nervosum and pli- 
tatum. 
52. P. montanum. R. 
Culms erect, smooth, from three to four feet high. Leaves lan- 
 teolate, unequally divided by the nerve. Panicle oblong ; ramifi- 
cations capillary, straight.  Corol two-valved ; Seed smooth, oval, 
e-nerved on the back. : ! 
A native of the Circar mountains, 
Root fibrous, from a ligneous perennial head.— Cu/ms erect, 
Smooth, of a firm woody texture, as thick as a crow quill, and three 
lo four feet high.— Leaves lanceolate, large, beautifully striated 
lengthways, somewhat hairy, lower margins next the mouths of the 
ath ciliate ; the nerve divides the leaf unequally, which is an - 
. "common circumstance in grasses. — Panicle linear, oblong, from * 
twelve to eighteen inches long, composed of straight, sub-erect, 
"apillary ramifications.— Flowers small, oval, remote.— Calyx as in 
Benus.— Corol as in the family ; this is one of the few instances 
of the want of a male or neuter floret.—Seed smooth, brown, with | 
Stripes. / = 
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