290 triandria digynia. Panicum. 



valve of the calyx minute or wanting", tine other two very 

 unequal, nerved, ami filiate on the margins only. 



Obs. Is rather a scarce grass in India, and grows in tufts. 

 Cattle do not seem fond of it, whereas all are fond of 

 Dactylon. 



14. P. ciliare. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 344. 



Culms creeping- at the base. Spikes sub-digitate. Flowers 

 paired, one sessile, the other pedicelled ; inner two' valves of 

 the calyces equally long, and bearded with four woolly 

 ridges ; third minute. 



Hind. Makwr-jalee. 



Teling, Shangah'-gadd*. 



It delights most in newly laid down pasture ground. 



Culms creeping, with one or two feet of the extremities 

 erect, these ramous, round and smooth. Leaves sheathing, 

 short for the size of the grass; margins ciliate near the base ; 

 sheaths sometimes a little hairy, shorter than the joints of tin? 

 culm, their mouths rise above the insertion of the leaf, stipule- 

 like, as in Dr. Smith's Erharta calycina, but here it is entire. 

 Spikes or rather spiked-racemes, from four to ten, digitate, 

 expanding, secund. Flowers paired, one sessile, one pe- 

 duncled. Rachis three-sided, waved. Calyx, exterior valve 

 most minute. Interior two, many -nerved, tour of the nerves 

 are clothed with very longywhite, soft hairs. 



Obs. Small plants on a poor soil, have much the appear- 

 ance of Agrostis radiata. Cattle are very fond of this grass. 



15. Y.fdiforme. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 343. 



Creeping, filiform, smooth. Spikes, from two to four, sub- 

 digitate, filiform, secund; Jlowers paired, one sessile, the 

 other pedicelled. Calyx with the accessary valve, minute ; 

 inner one half the length of the corol or middle one; these 

 last two are three-nerved, and villous on the margin. 



From China it was brought to the Botanic garden, where 



