' Panicum, TRIANDRIA DIGYNTIA, 283 
sorts of involucrets equally disposed round the owen and ip 
the leaves being puprecai and smooth, 2 
3. P. spicatum, R. 
Erect. Spikes cylindric.  Involucres hairy, surrounding 
from one to three awnless polygamous flowers. Calyces 
two-valved, both shorter _— the corol, the inner —_ and 
retuse, 
Holcus spicatus, Linn. sp ea ed, Willd. iv. 928, 
Gramen paniceum. Pluck. &c. alm. t. 32. f. 4. good. 
Hind. Bujera, or Bujra. 
Pedda-Gantee is the Telinga name of the plant, and Ganti- 
loo, the grain. — 
I have only found this in a cultivated state. It io sill 
about the beginning of the rains, viz. the end of —— 
beginhing of July, andi is ripe in Septembers) 
Culms several, if the soil is good, from the same grain ‘of 
seed, erect, with roots from the lowermost joint or two, round, 
smooth, from three to six feet high, and nearly as thick as 
the little finger. Leaves alternate, —— broad. and 
long ; mouths of the sheaths bearded. Spikes or rather ra- 
cemes, erminal, cylindric, erect, as thick as‘a man’s thumb, 
or more, and from six to nine inches long. Pedicels general- 
ly two-flowered, though sometimes only one and sometimes as 
many as four. Flowers surrounded with many, woolly, his- 
pid purple bristles or,énvolucres, about the length of' the 
flower. Calyx two-flowered, one hermaphrodite the other 
male, two-valved ; exterior valvelet minute, interior nearly — 
as long as the etek retuse, both awnless, Corol of the her- 
maphrodite flower two-valved, of the male one-valved. tyle 
ae. Stigma two-cleft, — Seed obovate, pearl-co- 
' This species is ‘much cultivated over the higher lands on 
_ the coast of Coromandel, The soil it likes is one that is loose 
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