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Panicum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, ae 
numerous, covering most completely every part of the ra- 
cemes, pedicelled, oval. | Calyx, two inner glumes striated, 
Corol no neuter, only one ee Seed smooth, shin- 
ing, white. 
Obs. This may be aly a variety of P. interruption, 
9. P. dimidiatum, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 339. 
Spikes secund, jointed ; joints excavated, daggered on al- 
ternate sides of the apex, from one to five-flowered, Calyx 
two-flowered, one hermaphrodite, the other male. 
A native of the Peninsula of India, scarce. 
Culms short, oblique, smooth; whole height. from six to 
twelve inches. Leaves slender, omnaisths obtuse, rather broad 
toward the apex. Spikes solitary, secund  jolbmeds smooth, 
from three to five inches long. Joints of the rachis from 
eight to twelve, rigid, excavated for the reception of the flow- 
er, except the lower one or two, which are longer ; in all ex- 
cept these a long sharp point or dagger proceeds from the 
apex, on the altemnnte sides of the articulation. Flowers lodg- 
ed in the concave joints of the rachis, on very unequal pe-_ 
dicels, the lowermost having each three or more, while those 
about the middle of the spikes have uniformly two, and the 
last two or three only one. Calyx two-flowered, two-valved ; 
flowers both sessile, one hermaphrodite, the other male; 
valyes unequal, the exterior one smalle? ; the inner one about 
as long as the valve of the corol, or it may be described with: 
three valves as in the genus; but then the male flower will 
have but one glume. Corols two-valved ; valves nearly equal, : 
those of the male flower much firmer, the sides of the. exterior 2 
one (which may be called the inner valve of the calyx, ifit 
be allowed, to have three), with the sides bent a right an 
20b0.Dr. Rotter, of tides an ilies Botnhiat ebliged 
