Panicum, TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, _ 303: 
Obs. Small plants have the spike more erect, and uniform, 
without vacancies between the the racemelets. : sed 
The seed is an article of diet with the natives. It delights 
in a light, elevated, tolerably dry soil. Seed time for the 
first crop, about the months of June and July; barvest time in 
September; produce about fifty-fold in a favourable season. 
A second crop may be had from the same ground, between 
September and the end of January. 
35. P. strictum. R. 
Culms straight, from two to three feet high. Spikes com- 
pound, cylindric, straight, with numerous expanding spike- 
lets. Glumes of the calyx hairy, and acute, Corol. three- 
= valved, the innermost one awned. 
Beng, Gang-bena. : 
A native of Bengal, where it is found, though rl on 
dry barren spots. 
Culms straight, from one to three feet high, slander asa 
crow’s quill, hairy, particularly at and near the jomts. Leaves 
short, straight, broadest at the base, and from thence taper- 
ing to a fine point; a little hairy, particularly underneath. 
Sheaths more hairy, their mouths bearded with much long, 
soft, white hair. Spikes, (panicles) cylindric, straight, com- 
posed of numerous, one-ranked, expanding, short spikelets, 
Flowers paired, on shorter and longer pedicels which unite 
_ before their insertions into the rachis of the spikelets, Calyx, 
valvelets acute ; two exterior with a few straight hairs, inner 
one smooth; corol-like. Coro/ three-valved, the inner and — 
smaller one awned. 6 Ki 
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