290: . TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Panicum, 
valve of the calyx minute or wanting, the other two very 
unequal, nerved, and ciliate on the margins only. 
Obs, Is rather a scarce grass in India, and grows in tufts. 
Cattle do not seem fond of it, whereas all are fond of 
Dactylon. 
14, P. ciliare. Linn. sp, pl. ed. Willd. i. 344. 
Culms creeping at the base. Spikes sub-digitate. Flowers 
paired, one sessile, the other pedicelled ; inner two valves of 
the calyces equally long, and bearded with four woolly 
ridges; third minute, — | 
Hind. Makur-jalee. 
Teling. Shangali-gaddi. 
It delights most in newly laid down pasture ground, 
Culms creeping, with one or two feet of the extremities 
erect, these ramous, round and smooth. Leaves sheathing, 
short for the size of the grass ; margins ciliate near the base ; 
sheaths sometimes a little hairy, shorter than the joints of the 
culm, their mouths rise above the insertion of the leaf, stipule- 
like, as in Dr. Smith’s Erharta calycina, but here it is entire. 
Spikes or rather spiked-racemes, from four to ten, digitate, 
expanding, secund. lowers paired, one sessile, one pe- 
duncled, Rachis three-sided, waved. Calyx, exterior valve 
most minute. Interior two, many-nerved, four of the nerves _ 
are clothed with very long, white, soft hairs, ys 
. Obs, Small plants on a poor soil, have much the appear- ee 
ance of Sen radiata. Guide are very fond of this Brass 
pe jfiliforme. 1 Linn, sp, pl. ed, Willd. i, 343. 2 
Creeping, filiform, smooth. Spikes, from two to four, sub- ‘ 
digitate, filiform, secund ; flowers paired, one sessile, the 
other pedicelled. Calyx with the accessary valve, minute ace 
inner one half the length of the corol or middle one; these 
last ‘two are divecinerecd and villous on the margin, 
a a oe it was broughr to the Botanic one, es o 
