Panicum. — TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 311 
vated sorts last described, bowing from the weight of the 
grain, it is composed of alternate, compound, nearly secund 
racemes, Rachis; common from four to five-sided; partial 
three-sided, winding, and hairy. Calyx, glumes many nerv- 
ed, otherwise smooth. Corol, the neuter valve is here pre- 
sent, and in luxuriant plants, the stamens also. Seed oval, 
transversely wrinkled, which distinguishes it from all the 
other panicled species, 
49, P. plicatum. R- 
_ Erect, herbaceous, harsh with stiff hairs. Leaves lanceo- 
late, plicate. Panicle lanceolate, ramifications compound, 
flowers paired, polygamous. 
Introduced into the ‘Botanic garden, from the Island of 
Sumatra. Flowering time the beginning of the cold season. 
Root perennial. Culms erect, or ascending, below as thick 
as a goose-quill, and then somewhat cbnlgprebeads every part 
- filled with pith. Leaves sub-bifarious, expanding, lanceolate, 
plicate, a little hairy; from six to twelve inches long, and 
from one to two broad, Sheaths about the length of the joints 
of the culms, armed with sharp, rigid hairs; mouth ciliate. 
‘Panicle oblong, lax ; lower ramifications rather remote, above 
approximate, and composed of unilateral short spikelets. 
‘Flowers solitary, paired, or threefold, when more than one 
they are on pedicels of unequal lengths ; sometimes there is a 
‘single coloured bristle from the pedicels of the exterior flow- 
ers. Calyx three-valved, two-flowered, one of the flowers 
male, with a corol of one membranaceous glume; the other 
_ hermaphrodite, and having the usual two-valved coro. eet oe 
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