Panicum. triandria digynia. 295 



and ending in a long waved, purple awn ; exterior glume ra- 

 llier lono-er. Corol no natter, nor male floret. Seed oblong, 

 smooth, slightly three-nerved. 

 Obs. Cattle are not fond of it. 



22. P. Burmanni. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 339. Retz. 

 Obs. hi. JV. 16. 



Culms creeping. Leaves lanceolate, hairy ; flowers her- 

 maphrodite; all the valvelets of the calyces hairy, and awned. 

 Seed slender, smooth, pointed. 



P. hirtellam. Burm. Lid. 24. t. 12. /. 1 . 



Hippogrostis amboinica. Rumph. Amb. iv. p. 14. t. b.f. 3. 



This species is always found on pasture ground, under the 

 shade of large trees. 



Culms creeping, branchy, with their extremities erect. 

 Leaves sheathing, lanceolate, waved, hairy; sheaths half the 

 length of the joints ; very hairy. Spikes compound, secund, 

 erect. Spikelets from four to eight, alternate, secund, ad- 

 pressed. Rachis, common and partial, three-sided. Floioers 

 generally paired ; one sessile, the other pedicelled. Calyx, 

 the two exterior glumes are hairy, and have long awns, that 

 of the inner is shorter and smoother. 



23. V . stayninum. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. i. 337. 



Culms from one to four feet high. Leaves smooth. Flow- 

 ers polygamous, three-fold, sub-sessile. Calyces hairy, and 

 hispid; inner valvelets awned. 



Beng. Dul. 



Teliny. Pedda-woondoo. 



Delights in wet, cultivated, paddy lands. 



Culms, towards the base resting on the ground, and strik- 

 ing root; above erect, which part is from one to four feet 

 high. Leaves smooth, soft, with only the mouth of the 

 sheaths ciliate. Spikes compound, secund, erect. Spikelets 

 alternate, sessile, secund, expanding a little. Rachis, both 

 common and partial three-sided. Flowers, very numerous; 



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