302 TRIANDRIA DTGYNIA. Panicum. 



pound, from three to four inches long, generally matted toge- 

 ther by means of the bristly involucels. Spikelets or rather 

 racemelets, tending to be vertieelled, generally four in the 

 verticel, composed of three or four short pedicels, each bear- 

 ing a few flowers; all intermixed with very stiff bristles (in- 

 volucels J armed with short, stiff, recurved points, by which 

 they adhere firmly to every thing that touches them. Calyx 

 as in the family. Corol, a third neuter valve, but no stamens 

 to it. Seed three-nerved, and slightly waved across. 



Obs. Cattle will not eat it, so that it is reckoned a trouble- 

 some weed wherever it is found. 



Plants reared from English seed, were not near so luxuriant 

 as those of India, but evidently the same species. Thuu- 

 berg's large cultivated variety is certainly Panicum italicum, 

 Curtis's figure in his Flora Londinensis is represented with 

 the leaves broader at the base than our Indian plant, or even 

 than in plants reared in India from English seed. 



34. P. italicum. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 33b*. 



Culms erect. Spikes nodding- ; spikelets scattered, ovate ; 

 pedicels from two to three or four- flowered, with smooth 

 bristles intermixed. Seed ovate, three-nerved. 



Panicum. Rumph. Amb. x.p. 202. t. \lb.J\ 2. 



Sans. Kmigoo, Vriynngoo. 



Ben (j. Kungoo, and Kungnee. 



Hind. Kora. 



Teling. Kora ; Koraloo, the grain. 



This is one of the plants called dry or small grain. It is 

 cultivated in many parts of India, and requires an elevated, 

 light soil. I never saw it wild. 



Culms several from one grain of seed, erect, from three to 

 five feet high, round, smooth; roots issuing from the lower 

 joints. Leaves, margins backwardly hispid ; mouths of the 

 sheaths bearded. Spikes compound, Sec. There is more or 

 less of a third, or neuter valve on the corol. 



