304 TRIANDRTA DIGYNIA. Panicum. 



daggered, the inner one awned. Corol three- valved. Seed 

 ovate, pointed, polished. 



Beng. B?<ra-Shama. 



Grows on the borders of rice lands, and rich moist places. 

 Is never cultivated nor made any use of. 



Culms erect with a few erect branches. Leaves long, narrow, 

 fine-pointed, smooth. Spikes straight, panicled, composed of 

 numerous, secund, erect spikelets, surrounding the common 

 four, five, or six-sided rachis. Flowers numerous, almost al- 

 ways two together and equally sub-sessile. Calyx, all the 

 three valves harsh with numerous sharp bristles issuing from 

 the nerves of the glumes. The two exterior ones with sharp 

 subulate points ; the inner one ends in a pretty long, strong, 

 hispid arista. Corol, with a third, membranaceous, neuter 

 valve. Seed ovate, pointed, polished. 



Obs. It comes near my P. frumentaceum, and may proba- 

 bly be the same in its wild state. 



37. V. frumentaceum. R. 



Culms erect, from two to four feet high. Panicle erect; 

 spikes secund, incurved ; flowers three-fold, unequally pedi- 

 celled. Valvelets of the calyces daggered, or awned ; seed 

 ovate, smooth. 



Sans. Shyamaka. 



Beng. Shama. 



Teling. Bonta-shama ; shamaloo, the grain. 



This I have only found in a state of cultivation, it delights 

 in alight, tolerably dry, rich soil ; the same ground yields two 

 crops between the first of the rains in June, July, and the end 

 of January. 



Culms erect, ramous, a little compressed, smooth, from 

 two to four feet high. Leaves large, margins hispid. Pa- 

 nicle erect, oblong, rigid, composed of numerous, secund, con- 

 densed, incurved spikes; they entirely surround the common 

 rachis and sometimes tend to be veiticelled. Rachis, com- 

 mon five or six-sided, a little hairy ; partial three-sided, wav- 



