Panicum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, ° 285 
_. This species is generally found on cultivated lands, grow- 
ing amongst the different sorts of small or dry grain. ~ 
Root fibrous, Culms sometimes near the base resting on the 
ground, and striking root; the rest erect, ramous, smooth, a 
little compressed ; from one to three feet high. Leaves sheath- 
ing, nearly bifarious, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths hairy. 
Spikes terminal, columnar, from two to six inches long, Flow- 
ers solitary, or jomed to the rudiments of one or two more, 
short-pedicelled, numerous, Jnvolucels longer than the flow- 
ers, consisting of one bundle of hairy bristles which issue 
from the middle of the underside of the pedicel. Calyx ge- 
nerally two flowers, in which case one is male, the other her- 
maphrodite, with its corol, as in the family. The male corol 
consist of one membranaceous glume between the inner.valve 
of the corol and inner glume of thecalyz, it has ns stamens 
only.- 
Obs. It. may probably be P. helvolum of the Supplenen. 
tum Plantarum, 197. 
In India we have two or sas seriees eatenalaiaieeinan: 
Can any pecianneetelIO S cus Peremer ronan 
one comes. nen near it, | 
6. Prholeoides. R. 
Erect. Involucels numerous, scattered, one-flowered, alter- 
nately one longerand woolly, and another shorter and smooth ; 
flowers sometimes polygamous, Seed oblong, smooth, resem- 
bling a small grain of common. oats, | 
_ Beng. Swati. 
Grows, with the former, on celexa lands, but they 
up amongst the mountains. 
“Root fibrous. Culms erect, ramous, from. two eotoad feet 
high, round, smooth, Leaves sheathing ; sheaths half the 
length of the joints; mouths bearded. Spikes as in P. glau- 
cum, but larger. Flowers solitary, short-pedicelled, without 
order. Involucels numerous, bristles entirely surrounding the 
flower; of two sorts, the largest twice the length of the flow- _ 
