294 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Panicum, 
Beng. Peti-nar, - 
Teling. Doosa. 
Delights in a moist rich soil, such as s the banks of water- 
courses, borders of rice fields, &c. 
Culms at the base creeping, above nearly erect, round, 
smooth, from one to four feet long, including the part that 
rests on the ground. Leaves smooth,except about the mouths — 
of the sheaths where they are bearded, and sub-ciliate. Spike 
compound, secund, exceedingly like that of P. brizoides, only 
here it is generally longer, with often as many as twenty-five 
or thirty spikelets; their distance from one another is not so - 
regular and is generally less than their own length, Flowers 
disposed in two rows on the outside of the spikelets, which 
are oblong. Calyx one-flowered, the two exterior valves very 
small. Seed oblong, pointed, rugose. 
21. P. danceolatum. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd.i. 337. 
Culms creeping. Leaves lanceolate, mouths of their sheaths _ 
elevated and bearded. Flowers hermaphrodite ; valvelets of 
the calyces equal, the exterior one awned, Seed smooth, ob- 
P. aristatum, of the same author, seems the same grass.) +. 
- Compare with P. compositum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd.i. 
346. In the Banksian Herbarium the same species is labelled 
’ P. unguinosum, Grows under the shade of trees, s 
«Culms creeping, ramous, with their athealliees Geom, one 
to two feet high, sub-erect. Leaves lanceolate, waved, often 
tinged with purple; sheaths shorter than the joints, hairy ; 
mouths elevated, stipula-like, and hairy. Spikes composed, — 
secund ; from six to twelve inches long. Spikelets alternate, 
somewhat remote, secund, direction between expanding and 
adpressed. Rachis, common and partial three-sided. Flowers 
generally paired, one sessile, the other short-pedicelled ; inser- 
ae surrounded with hairs, when single there is an 
