284 triandria digynia. Panicum, 



and rich ; in such it yields upwards of an hundred-fold, the 

 same ground will yield a second crop of this or some other 

 sort of dry grain during October, November, December, and 

 January. 



The Hindoo farmer knows four other varieties of this spe- 

 cies, all of which he cultivates. Their Telinga names are 1st. 

 Pitta (birds) Gantee ; 2d. Munda-boda-Gantee ; 3d. Palla- 

 boda-Gantee ; and 4th. Yerra-Gantee. 



Cattle are fond of the straw*, and the grain is a very essen- 

 tial article of diet amongst the natives of these parts. 



4. P. involucratum. R. 



Erect. Spikes cylintlric, numerous, scattered, two-flower- 

 ed, alternately longer and ciliate; shorter and smooth. Caly- 

 ces two-valved, the exterior one minute, the inner one shorter 

 than the corol, and emarginate. 



A native of mountains chiefly, where it grows wild. 



Culms as in the last species, from two to four feet high ; 

 joints woolly. Leaves, mouths of their sheaths bearded. 

 Spikes as in P. sjricatum, but the pedicels smaller, two-flow- 

 ered. Involucre, many bristles surrounding on all sides the 

 flowers; they are of two sorts, simple ones awled, the longer 

 ones with fringed margins. Calyx one or two-flowered; 

 valvelets as in the last species. Corol when there is only one 

 to the calyx it is hermaphrodite, when two, one hermaphro- 

 dite, the other male, as in the last species. Styles two. 



Obs. I know of no use this is put to at present ; it may be 

 Panicum spicatum in its wild state, though it is more like my 

 Panicum holcoides in its present wild state. 



5. P. glaucum. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 335. 



Culms erect, from one to three feet high ; involncel one 

 bundle of hairy bristles, one-flowered. Floicers generally 

 polygamous. Seed transversely rugose. 



Beng. Pingi-natchi. 



Teliny. Naka-kora. 



