Panicum, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, 295 
and ending in a long waved, purple awn ; exterior glume ra- 
ther longer. Corol no neuter, nor male floret. Seed oblong, 
smooth, slightly three-nerved. as 
Ole Caitle are not fond of it, : Be 
6 P. Burmanni, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 339. Retz. 
Obs. iti. N. 16. 
‘Culms creeping. Leaves lanceolate, holes flowers her- 
maphrodite; all the valvelets of the calyces hairy, and awned. 
Seed slender, smooth, pointed. 
P. hirtellum. Burm. Ind. 24, t. 12. f.1. 
Hippogrostis amboinica. Rumph. Amb. iv. p. 14, t. 5. f.3. 
» This species is always found on pasture ground, under the 
shade of large trees. : 
Culms creeping, branchy, with their extremities tect 
Leaves sheathing, lanceolate, waved, hairy ; sheaths half the 
length of the joints; very hairy. Spikes compound, secund, . 
erect, Spikelets from four to eight, alternate, secund, ad- 
pressed. Rachis, common and partial, three-sided.. Flowers 
generally paired ; one sessile, the other pedicelled. Calyx, 
the two exterior glumes are hairy, and have long awns, that 
of ects inner: is. shorter and smoother, 
93.4 Pp. Henninen: Linn, sp. pl, ed, Willd. i. 337. J 
Culms from one to four feet high. Leaves weil Flow- 
ers polygamous, three-fold, sub-sessile. Calyces eaaneae and 
hispid; inner valvelets awned. 
~ Beng. Dul. 
- Teling. Pedda-woondoo. 
Siete in wet, cultivated, paddy heel 
_- Culms, towards sev tiniliecldngieaciligce daceall- 
ing root above erect, which part is from one to foor feet 
high. Leaves smooth, soft, with only the mouth of the 
sheaths ciliate. Spikes compound, secund, erect. Spikelets 
alternate, sessile, secund, expanding: a little. Rachis, both 
‘common and partial three-sided. Flowers, very numerous: 
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