284 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Panicum, 
and rich; in such it yields upwards of an hundred-fold, the 
same ground will yield a second crop of this or some other 
sort of dry grain during October, November, December, and 
January. . 
_ The Hindoo farmer knows four other varieties of this spe- 
cies, all of which he cultivates. Their Telinga names are 1sé. 
Pitta (birds) Gantee ; 2d. Munda-boda-Gantee ; 3d, Palla- 
boda-Gantee ; and 4th. Yerra-Gantee. 
Cattle are fond of the straw, and the grain is a very essen- 
tial article of diet amongst the natives of these parts. ‘ 
A, P. involucratum. R. 
Erect. Spikes cylindric, numerous, scattered, two-flower- 
ed, alternately longer and ciliate; shorter and smooth. Caly- 
ces two-valved, the exterior one minute, the inner one waniares 
than the corol, and emarginate, 
A native of mountains chiefly, where it grows wild, 
Culms as in the last species, from two to four feet high ; - 
joints woolly. Leaves, mouths of their sheaths bearded. 
Spikes as in P. spicatum, but the pedicels smaller, two-flow- 
ered. Jnvolucre, many bristles surrounding on all sides the’ 
flowers; they are of two sorts, simple ones awled, the longer 
ones with fringed margins. Calyx one or two-flowered; _ 
valvelets as in the last species. Corol when there is only one 
to the calyx it is hermaphrodite, when two, ee teem he 
dite, the other male, as in the last species. Stylestwo, 
Obs. 1 know of no use this is put to at present; it may bak 
Panicum spicatum in its wild state, though it is more a 
Panicum holcoides in its present wild state. 
5. P. glaucum. Linn, sp, pl. ed. Willd. i. 335, oe 
Culms erect, from one to three feet high; involucel one 
bundle of hairy bristles, one-flowered. Flowers kane Ee. 
Palzgamous Seed samenneten regune: fe 
