Panicum. triandria digynia. 289 



from the base to a fine point, three-nerved ; margins fringed, 

 of a chaffy texture. Corol as in the genus, and rather longer 

 than the inner glume of the calyx, here is a third neutral 

 membranaceous valve, as in many species of this genus. 



SECT. III. Spikes fascicled. 



12. P. Dactylon. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 342. 

 Smooth, creeping. Spikes digitate, secund, corol gibbous 



on one side, and twice as long as the calyces. 



Agrostis linearis. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 375. Retz. 

 Obs. iv. jY. 51. Sir W. Jones. Asial. Res. iv. p. 248. 



Sans. Doorva, Slmtwpwvika, S?di?<srwveerya, Bhargwvee, 

 Ourooha, Ununta. 



Beng. Doorba. 



Teling. Ghericha. 



Turn. Arugam-pilla. 



This is by far the most common and useful grass in India. 

 It grows every where abundantly, and flowers all the year. 



Root creeping. Culms creeping, with their flower-bearing* 

 branchlets erect, from six to twelve inches high, smooth. 

 Leaves small, and smooth. Spikes from three to five, termi- 

 nal, sessile, filiform, expanding-, secund, from one to two 

 inches long. Rachis waved. Flowers alternate, single, dis- 

 posed in two rows on the underside. Calyx much smaller 

 than the corol. Corol, the large or exterior valve boat-shap- 

 ed, keel slightly ciliate. Stigmas villous, purple. 



Obs. This most valuable grass forms three-fourths of the 

 food of our horses and cows in India. It is by the brahmwns 

 of the coasts held sacred to Gunesha, (the Janus of the 

 ancients,) under the name of Doorwall. 



13. P. aegyptiacum. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 343. 

 Creeping at the base. Spikes from four to eight ; corymb- 



ed, smooth. Flowers paired on unequal pedicels ; accessary 

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