Panicum. triandria digynia. 303 



Obs. Small plants have the spike more erect, and uniform, 

 Vithout vacancies between the the racemelets. 



The seed is an article of diet with the natives. It delights 

 in a light, elevated, tolerably dry soil. Seed time for the 

 first crop, about the months of June and July ; harvest time in 

 September; produce about fifty-fold in a favourable season. 

 A second crop may be had from the same ground, between 

 September and the end of January. 



35. P. striatum. R. 



Culms straight, from two to three feet high. Spikes com- 

 pound, cylindric, straight, with numerous expanding- spike- 

 lets. Glumes of the calyx hairy, and acute. Corol three- 

 valved, the innermost one awned. 



Beng. Gang--beua. 



A native of Bengal, where it is found, though rarely, on 

 dry barren spots. 



Culms straight, from one to three feet high, slender as a 

 crow's quill, hairy, particularly at and near the joints. Leaves 

 short, straight, broadest at the base, and from thence taper- 

 ing to a fine point; a little hairy, particularly underneath. 

 Sheaths more hairy, their mouths bearded with much long-, 

 soft, white hair. Spikes, (panicles) cylindric, straight, com- 

 posed of numerous, one-ranked, expanding-, short spikelets. 

 Flowers paired, on shorter and longer pedicels which unite 

 before their insertions into the rachis of the spikelets. Calyx, 

 valvelets acute; two exterior with a few straight hairs, inner 

 one smooth • corol-like. Corol three-valved, the inner and 

 smaller one awned. 



36. P. hispidulum. Retz. Obs. v. p. 18. Linn. sp. pi. eel. 

 Willd. i. 346. 



Culms erect, from three to four feet high. Spikes panicled, 

 erect, lanceolate ; spikelets secund ; flowers two-fold, both 

 sub-sessile ; valvelets of the calyx bristly, the middle one 



