292 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Panicum, 
A rare plant, native of ground that has been nately in cul- 
tivation. 
* Culms from. one to two feet high, sub-erect, hairy. Leaves 
short and broad, hairy, and fringed round the margin; 
sheaths also hairy. Racemes from four to ten; when more than 
four or five, the rest are elevated on a common’ peduncle 
above the point from whence the first four or five issue; all 
are pedicelled, bowing, secund. Flowers in two rows and 
in pairs, scarcely ever single. Calyx, border of the inner 
valve fringed with red hairs, Corol, the arista is sometimes 
wanting, and its valves three-nerved ; in mine there is a se- 
cond, or male floret, as in many species of Panicum. 
18, P. corymbosum. R, 
Sheaths of the leaves bristly. Spikes numerous, cory 
ed, Calyces two-valved, Seeds oblong, ees ont 
Teling, Cheepa-bora-gaddi, 
This species 1 have found only in the malian caine the 
Circar mountains; it grows to a great size in standing sweet 
water, ne 
Culms of great extent, creeping, or floating, with their ex- 
tremities erected above the water ; on dry ground I haye-also 
found it, where it is in general Gace one to four feet high. 
Leaves as in other grasses; sheaths covered with stiff white 
hairs, Spikes corymbed, numerous; from four to eight m- 
ches long, filiform, sub-erect, secund, level-topped.  Rachis, 
common. striated ; partial three-sided. Flowers oblong, in 
two rows, paired; one very short pedicelled, the other longer. 
Calyx two-valved ; the exterior valve small, the other.as large 
as the corol, and striated, but no third or inner valve. - Corol 
as in the family. Seed oblong, smooth, white. 
19. P. brisoides, Linn, sp. pl. el, Willd i. 338...» 
Culms eub-crect.' Leaves shorts: 
