Panicum. TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 309. 
ry; calyces smooth and obtuse, containing one hermaphro- 
dite and one neuter floret, : Gea 
A native of Sumatra; and from thence introduced by Dr. 
Charles Campbell into the Botanic garden in 1804, where 
it grows luxuriantly, and blossoms throughout the year. 
Culms round, sarmentose, and of great length, inane, with 
nearly erect, frequently ramous, floriferous shoots of about 
two or three feet in height rising from the joints; every part. 
clothed with much soft hairy pubescence, particularly the 
runners, Leaves ensiform, soon becoming reflex, margins 
hispid, length from six to twelve inches, from half to three 
quarters of an inch in breadth at the broadest part. Sheaths 
rather longer than the joints, Panicle terminal, ovate ; com- 
posed of many, single, alternate, patent, compound, smooth. 
branches. lowers very numerous, awnless, smooth, solita- 
ry, pedicelled. Valves of the calyx three, obtuse, slightly 
marked with green nerves, the exterior one long, containing: 
a two-valyed hermaphradite flower, and a small neuter one. 
46, P. miliare, Lamarck. 
Culms erect, ramous, from two to three feet x high, isiotte 
Panicle thin; flowers paired on a common pedicel, with un- 
equal partial aueevae corol three-valyed ; seed ovate, smooth, 
five-streaked. 
Teling. Nella-shama, Nella-shamaloo, the grain, 
- This species 1 have found only in a cultivated state, it is 
one of the sorts of dry or small grain which is generally cay 
tivated on an elevated, light, rich soil, oe 
Culms, many trom the same seed, erect, branchy, roux d, zs 
smooth, from two to three feet high. Leaves smooth. Pani- 
cle ct beautifully bowing with the ale of the ‘grain - 
ers ek, paired upon a common edicel, with 
tial pedicels. Calyces, glumes smooth, “‘Brinted lengthways 
with nerves. Corol, accompanied by a neuter valye. Seed 
: oval, striated, smooth, pany: brown. : 
