282 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Panicunt, 
P. conglomeratum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 341, does not 
agree with our plant in having cylindrical spikes with flowers 
equally disposed on all sides, This is a very small species, 
a native of Coromandel. 
2. P. barbatum. R. as 
Culms from three to five feet highi very ramous at ‘tops 
Leaves lanceolate. . Spikes simple, aylitidaies Involucreis. 
simple, and bearded, surrounding on every side a single 
flower; seed smooth. 
This species, sprung up in beds, in the Botanic garden 
where earth had been thrown that came from Sumatra, or 
Amboyna. ‘Compare with P. ~~ Linn. sp. si ed. 
Willd. i. 835. * 
Root annual in Dedirstes Coulis erect, about. an foot hi, 
simple, till near the top, there very ramous, Leaves lanceo- 
late, often a foot and a half long, hispid on the margins, other- 
wise smooth; the sheaths about half the length of the joints, 
with a few single hairs at the mouth. Spikes terminal, and — 
solitary (though from the numerous ramification of the top of 
the culms the whole may be called alarge leafy panicle) sub- 
cylindric, about three or four inches long. | Involucrets of 
two sorts, the longest-about.twice the length of the flowers — 
with their lower half bearded, hence the specific name, which — 
for the same reason is also applicable to my Panicum hol- 
coides,) the innermost one is in this species about double the — 
length of the other five, six, or seyen; all are of a reddish ee 
brown colour from the bearded part to the point, The other 
sort of involucrets are simple and about the length of the 
flowers. The two Sorts surround on all sides a single flower. a 
Calyx one-flowered, exterior valve vor minute, Seeds sooth, ee 
slender and pointed. oF 
Obs. It differs from my P. holcoides in the catmblding 
* very en at the “id only, and in the leaves being wont 
