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304 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Panicum. 
daggered, the inner one awned. Corol bactinalie. Seed 
ovate, pointed, polished. | 7 
Beng, Bura-Shama. 
Grows on the borders of rice lands, and rich moist places, 
Is never cultivated nor made any use of, 
Culms erect with a few erect branches. Leaves long, narrow, - 
fine-pointed, smooth. Spikes straight, panicled, composed of 
- numerous, secund, erect spikelets, surrounding the common 
four, five, or six-sided rachis.- //owers numerous, almost al- 
ways two together and equally sub-sessile. Calyx, all the 
three valves harsh with numerous sharp bristles issuing from 
the nerves of the glumes. The two exterior ones with sharp 
subulate points; the inner one ends in a pretty long, strong, 
hispid arista. Corol, with a third, membranaceous, neuter 
_ valve, Seed ovate, pointed, polished. == ss | 
Obs. It comes near my P. Sepninontss and -— spa se 
bly be the same in its wild state. re 
37. P. _frumentaceum. R. 
Culms erect, from two to four feet high. “Panicle — 
spikes secund, incurved ; flowers three-fold, unequally pedi- 
celled. Valvelets of the es daggered, or-awned ; ite 
ovate, smooth, cd 
Sans, Shpoanhis Persty et ; i oO. poe 
: Beng. Shama. aes ©. ; 5 oat ae) pee 
_ Teling. Bonta-shama ; dmenbis aie perlaly wise 
_ This I have only found in a state of cultivation, it delights 
inva light;thtersbly dry, rich soil ; the same ground yields two 
crops between the first of the rains in June, July, and the end 
of January. 
Culms erect, ramous, a little compressed, smooth, from 
two to four feet high. Leaves large, margins hispid. Pa 
nicle erect, oblong, rigid, composed of numerous, secund, con- os 
densed, incurved spikes; they entirely surround the common — 
rachis and sometimes tend to be verticelled.. Resbioueine ee 
