300 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. Pan'lCUm. 



all sides. / iwnless; mnohmre hairy. Corol three- 



vaht <l. 



P. I'j'iiis. liurm. Intl. t. 11./'. I. is like this only the par- 

 tial spiki a are rather too long, and the leaves too narrow. 



Common about tin- beginning of the rains on cultivated 

 lands, in gaidi as, fee. near Calcatta. It is a pretty, cespi; a 

 species which cattle are fond of. 



Culms, creeping- to the extent of from one to two feet, ge- 

 niculate, smooth, often coloured. Leaves lanceolate, base cor- 

 date, stem-clasping, and ciliate. Sheaths shorter than the 

 joints, somewhat hairy. Spikes from four to ten, small, short, 

 sessile, second, equally inserted on the four or six *id. -d, vil- 

 lous rachis. Flatten generally paired, and both unequally 

 pedicelled, with an involucre of long soft hairs on the out- 

 side of the pedicel. Calyx ; exterior valve minute, and trun- 

 cate; the inner two equal, five-nerved. Corol, with neuter 

 valve. 



31. P. ftirsutum. K6n. 



Leaves broad-lanceolate, with cordate, stem-clasping base, 

 ^aved, ciliate, and hairy. Flowers polygamous, solitary, sefr- 

 sile. Seed ovate, transversely rugose. 



Hntd. Jal gantt. 



Teiinrf. Salla-woodoo. 



Is found on the borders of cultivated land, on pasture 

 ground, fee, 



Culms, spreading at the base; resting on the ground and 

 rooting ; above ascending ;/omlJ downy. Leaves broad, I 

 cordate and embracing the culms, much waved, hairv, with 

 the edges ciliate; sheaths also hairy with a thick beard round 

 the mouths. Spikes composed of ^i\ or twelve, simple, al- 

 ternate, second, expanding spikelets, surrounding a common, 

 four or five-sided, hairy rachis. Partial, rachis three-sided, 

 hairy. Flowers in two nm\ single, alternate, sessile, often 

 intermixed with bristles. Cah/x, all the valve- hairy and stri- 

 ated. Corol, a complete, one-valved male floret in the same 



