— © 302 YRIANDRIA DIGYNIAL Panicum 
pound, from three to four inches long, generally matted toge- 
ther by means of the bristly involucels, Spikelets or rather 
racemelets, tending to be verticelled, generally four m the 
verticel, composed of three or four short pedicels, each bear- 
ing a few flowers; all intermixed with very stiff bristles (in- 
_ volucels) armed with short, stiff, recurved points, by which 
' they adhere firmly to every thing that touches them. Calyx 
as in the family. Corol, a third neuter valve, but nostamens” 
to it. Seed three-nerved, and slightly waved across, 
Obs, Cattle will not eat it, so that it is reckoned a trouble- 
some weed wherever it is found. ie 
Plants reared from English seed, were not near so luxuriant 
_as those of India, but evidently the same species. Thun- 
berg’s large cultivated variety is certainly Panicum italicum. 
Curtis’s figure in his Flora Londinensis is represented with 
the leaves broader at the base than our Indian plant, or even 
than in plants reared in India from English seed. i 
34, P. italicum. Linn, sp. pl. ed. Willd. i. 336. | 
Culms erect. Spikes nodding ; spikelets scattered, ovate; 
pedicels from two to three or four-flowered, with smooth 
bristles intermixed. Seed ovate, three-nerved. 
Panicum, Rumph, Amb, v. p. 202. t. 175. f.2. 
_ Sans. Kungoo, Priyungoo, 
Beng. Kungoo, and Kungnee, 
Hind. Kora. 
-Teling. Kora ; Koraloo, the grain, a 
This is one of the plants called dry or sda grain, tt is” 
cultivated in many parts of India, and requires an elevated, . 
light soil, I never saw it wild, 
Culms several from one grain of seed, erect, from three to. 
five feet high, round, smooth; roots issuing from the lower 
joints, Leaves, margins backwardly hispid ; mouths of the — 
sheaths bearded, Spikes compound, &c. bervenee is more or : 
feof thie, w or neuter ese ae ees cell 
