292 TRIANDRIA DIGVNIA. PaniCUm. 



A rare plant, native of ground that has been lately in cul- 

 tivation. 



Culms from one to two feet high, sub-erect, hairy. Leaves 

 short and broad, hairy, and fringed round the margin ; 

 sheaths also hairy. Racemesfrom four to ten; when more than 

 four or five, the rest are elevated on a common peduncle 

 above the point from whence the first four or five issue; all 

 are pedicelled, bowing", secund. Flowers in two rows and 

 in pairs, scarcely ever single. Calyx, border of the inner 

 valve fringed with red hairs. Corol, the arista is sometimes 

 wanting, and its valves three-nerved ; in mine there is a se- 

 cond, or male floret, as in many species of Pamcum. 



18. P '. corymbosum. R. 



Sheaths of the leaves bristly. Spikes numerous, corymb- 

 ed. Calyces two-valved. Seeds oblong, smooth. 



Teling. Cheepa-bora-gadd?'. 



This species I have found only in the vallies amongst the 

 Circar mountains ; it grows to a great size in standing sweet 

 water. 



Culms of great extent, creeping, or floating, with their ex- 

 tremities erected above the water ; on dry ground I have also 

 found it, where it is in general from one to four feet high. 

 Leaves as in other grasses ; sheaths covered with stiff white 

 hairs. Spikes corymbed, numerous ; from four to eight in- 

 ches long, filiform, sub-erect, secund, level-topped. Rachis, 

 common striated ; partial three-sided. Flowers oblong, in 

 two rows, paired; one very short pedicelled, the other longer. 

 Calyx two-valved ; the exterior valve small, the other as large 

 as the corol, and striated, but no third or inner valve. Corol 

 as in the family. Seed oblong, smooth, white. 



SECT. IV. Spikes alternate on one side only of a common rachis. 



19. P. brizoides. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. i. 338. 



Culms sub-erect. Leaves short. Spikelets remote, ad press- 



