300 TRIANDRIA DIGYNTA, Panicum, 
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all’ sides. Flowers awnless; involucre merck Corol three- 
valved, “i3 
P. repens. Burm. Ind. t. 11.f. 1. is like this, il the par- 
tial spikes are rather too long, and the leaves too narrow. 
- Common about the beginning of the rains on cultivated 
lands, in gardens, &c. near Calcutta. It is a er: — 
species which cattle are fond of, 
Culms, creepmg to the extent of from one to two Seti ge- 
niculate, smooth, often coloured. Leaves lanceolate, base cor- 
date, stem-clasping, and ciliate. Sheaths shorter than the 
joints, somewhat hairy. Spikes from four to ten, small, short, 
sessile, secund, equally inserted on the four or six-sided, vil-_ 
lous rachis, Flowers generally paired, and both unequally 
pedicelled, with an’ involucre of long soft hairs on the out- 
side of the pedicel. Calya ; exterior valve minute, and trun- 
cate; the inner two equal, five-nerved. Corol, haratl, neuter, 
valve. 
3}. P. hirsutum, Kon. rh: 
- Leaves broad-lanceolate, with cordate, stem-clasping iiss 
nae ciliate, and hairy. lowers polygamous, mae ses- 
sile, Seed ovate, olathe rugose. 
Hind, oninpnigi 
Teling. Salla-woodoo, eee 
“Ke foun on the borders of ena lay on pst : 
ground, &e. Ze 
Culms, spreading at the base; seattocuinallsactiaiini ied | 
rooting ; above ascending; joints deowsigs Leaves broad, base 
cordate and embracing the culms, much waved, hairy, with 
the edges ciliate; sheaths also hairy with a thick beard-round 
the mouths. Spikes composed of six or twelve, simple, al- 
ternate, secund, expanding spikelets, surrounding a common, 
four or five-sided, hairy rachis, Partial, rachis three-sided, 
air) ele in “two seca single, patie ermine ae 3 
