Panicum. triandria digynia. 301 



calyx with the hermaphrodite. Seeds ovate, transversely ru- 

 gose, white, daggered. 



Ohs. Cattle are very fond of it. 



32. P. tomentosum. R. 



Culms sub-erect. Leaves hairy; spikes from ten to twelve, 

 oblong - , from six to eight-flowered, intermixed with hispid 

 bristly involucels. Seed ovate, transversely wrinkled. 



This is a delicate, rare species, found growing in tufts, or 

 dry pasture ground over various parts of India. 



Culms ascending, compressed towards the base, branchy, 

 from twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves soft, covered 

 with much, long, soft hair ; sheaths half the length of the 

 joints ; mouth bearded. Spikes compound, terminal, consist- 

 ing- of ten or twelve (generally* alternate, though sometimes 

 in pairs) spikelets of six or eight flowers, intermixed with 

 hispid bristles, they are not placed on one side, but round the 

 common rachis, which is generally three-sided. Calyx, the 

 two interior valves five-nerved ; the second, half the length 

 of the corol, as in P. c/laucum. Corol has a third neuter valve. 

 Seed transversely wrinkled, as in P. glaucum. 



33. P. verticillatum. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 334. 



Spikes cylindric. Spikelets quatern, sub-verticelled. In- 

 volucels, backwardly hispid bristles. Seeds oblong, three- 

 nerved, and rugose. 



Hind. Dora-byara. 



Teling. Chicklenta. 



Delights in a rich soil in out of the wav corners, where 

 there is rubbish, &c. 



Culms, below resting- on the ground and striking root, 

 above weak, often leaning over to one side, smooth, length 

 of the creeping part, from one to twofeet, and that of the more 

 erect culms from one to two feet. Leaves sheathing, linear- 

 lanceolate, a little downy ; margins hispid when felt back- 

 wards ; mouths of the sheaths hairy. Spikes columnar, com- 



