296 PRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Panicum, 
three-fold below, above in pairs, all sessile, or nearly so; their 
insertion surrounded with small bristles, involucre-like., Ca- 
lyx, only the inner valve awned, all striated, hairy and hispid. 
Corol complete; male florets, besides the usual hermaphro~ 
dite one, 
Obs, This is.a coarse species, Cattle are not fond of it. © 
24. P. crus corvi, Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd, i. 337. 
Culms creeping at the base. Leaves downy. Spikes 
from six to ten, three times longer than their interstices. Ca- 
lyces downy. Corol three-valved. . Seed oblong, obtuse, 
smooth, ; wav 
A middle-sized, delicate, rare species, found on pasture 
ground. Culms filiform, creeping at the base, above nearly 
erect, Leaves soft, downy; sheath hairy. Spikes com- 
pound, secund, from one to. three inches long. Spikelets from 
four to twelve, alternate, adpressed, secund, about: three- 
fourths of an inch long ; sometimes there is a very small rami- 
fication at the lower part of one or two. Rachis common, 
two-furrowed ; partial, three-sided, downy. Flowers paired 
_ or single, in two rows; both pedicelled ; pedicels hairy, of | 
unequal length, but both short. Calyx striated, very downy. 
Corol, the neuter valve i is here, a Seed see smooth, 
shining white, SRR ee Sia 
25,P. AcieotiniaEiadiapestieed aXdiden ate oe, 
Culms creeping at the base. \Spidansfdlokinia-scdeuiahaied 
Flowers three-fold, sub-sessile. Glumes of the calyces three- ’ 
nerved. Corol three-valved, Seed roundish, smooth, i<_ 
nerved. 9 
. Beng. Shama. There is a reddish variety, called Latha 
ma, 
ling: Woondoo-gaddi. 
4 e ig hts in rich pasture ground, | sass P 
Culms, below. resting on the ground, and ong ove 
sheet int ee ye 
