308 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Panicum, 
erect, acute, retrorso-hispid; sheaths longer than the joints, 
with a thick bearded mouth. Panicle oval, diffuse, thin, com- 
posed of scattered, sub-alternate, ramous branches ; all near- 
ly triangular, the angles sharp, and armed with fine points. 
Flowers oblong, pointed, in pairs on a common pedicel with 
unequal partial pedicels, Calyx, exterior valve short, broad, 
involving the bottoms of the others. Coro/, with a small neu- 
ter glume, always without stamens. Seed oblong, smooth, 
brown. 
Obs. This grass is of a coarse nature; cattle are not there- 
fore fond of it, .When it grows on dry ground, the grass is 
much smaller, but the les larger. 
u, P. haan R. 
Culms erect, from two to four feet high, Panicle thin ra- 
mifications four-sided, smooth ; flowers pgs seca 
Seed oblong, smooth. 
Beng. Burunda, 
Teling., Gundru. 
A native of the moist borders of rice fields, in wet ground. 
_, Root fibrous, white. Culms many, ramous ; below resting 
on the ground and rooting ; above erect, a little compressed, 
smooth ; from two to four feet high. Leaves short and sharp, 
inside a little downy; sheaths shorter than the joints ; mouths 
bearded. In paludosum they are surrounded on ihe inside 
- with hair, Here the ramifications are compressed, and some- 
what four-sided, there triangular, and hispid, Panicle more — 
contracted than in paludosum. Calyx, the same. Corol, with 
a complete male floret, Seed oblong, smooth, 
Obs. To distinguish it from P. paludosum, attention ak a 
be paid to the leaves, ramifications a the ponsiss and male, a 
florets, 
4. Le sarrmentosum. R, 
