310 -'TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA, Panicum. 
“Obs, The seed is an article of diet with those Hindoos who 
inhabit the higher lands. Cattle are fond of the straw. 
47. P. miliaceum. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. i, 348. 
Culms erect, ramous, from two to four feet high ; the whole 
plant very hairy. Panicle oblong; glumes of the calyces cus- 
pidate. Corol three-valved ; adventitious valve two-toothed, 
Seed oval, smooth, five-streaked. 
~ Sans. Vreehib-heda, Unoo. 
~ Hind. and Beng. Cheena. 
* Teling. Worga; ; Worglo, the grain. 
- This is siusthier of the cultivated cerealia; the same soil 
suits it as is proper for the last described = Time of 
culture immediately after the rains, ~ . 
Culms many from the same seed, erect, ramous, very hairy ; 
from two to four feet high. _ Leaves large, with long sheaths, 
which involve most part of the culms, every part covered 
_ with much white hair. Panicle as in the former, only here ~ 
and there a few hairy. Calyx all the three glumes are much 
pointed. Corol the neuter valve is here emarginate, _Nee- 
tary two, triangular, emarginate bodies embrace the germ la- 
terally. Seed oval, mouth brownish, with smooth, i 
streaks lengthways, as in ete last. 
48. P. tenue. R. iS A Se 
~ Culms erect, ramous ; from one to six. el sighs nDieiiole 
‘thin, flowers paired on a common hairy pedicel, eso ag 
partial pedicels, Corol three-valved. Seed — rans} ; 
ly waved. 
This is a wild species, which iba amongst the —_ 
mountains, 
Culms erect, sometimes resting on the ground, and vethioag 
root there, ramous, smooth, from one to six feet high. Leaves 
large ; upper-side hairy ; edges armed with very sharp points. 
Sheaths shorter than the joints,hairy, with their mouths beard- 
ed, Panicle erect, till the seeds are ripe, then, as inthe culti- 
