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Panicum, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 301 
calyx with the itiasins. ‘Seeds ovate, sth ru- 
gose, white, daggered. icon 
Obs. Cattle are very fond of it. 
inD@Deial tomentoanth, R, 
_ Culms sub-erect, Leaves hairy ;, spikes fei ten to twelve, 
oblong, from six to eight-flowered, intermixed with hispid 
bristly involucels, Seed ovate, transversely wrinkled. - 
This is a delicate, rare species, found growing in tufts, or 
dry* pasture ground over various parts of India, 
Culms ascending, compressed towards the base, branchy, 
from twelve to eighteen inches bigh. Leaves soft, covered 
with much, long, soft hair; sheaths half the length of the 
joints ; mouth bearded. Spikes compound, terminal, consist- 
ing of ten or twelve (generally alternate, though sometimes 
in pairs) spikelets of six or eight flowers, intermixed with 
hispid bristles, they are not placed on one side, but round the 
common rachis, which is generally three-sided. Calyx, the 
two interior valves five-nerved; the second, half the length 
of the corol, as in P. glancum. Corol has a third neuter valve. 
Seed transversely. wrikled as in P. glaucum, 
as, ). cagestiazen, pri sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 334, | 
Spikes cylindric, Spikelets quatern, ‘sub-verticelled, dn- 
volucels, backwardly hispid bristles, Seeds apn, three- 
nerved, and rugose. 
Hind, Dora-byara. 
. Feling. Chicklenta. i 
Delights in a rich soil in out of the way 
dheseincbbals &e. i a i ad 
bil ean hispid. when felt hocks 
wards; mouths of the sheaths hairy, Spikes columnar, com- 
