Panlcum, tRiANDRIA DIGYNTA. 3|}j(. 



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

 smootii, often coloured. — heaves lanceolate, base cordate, stem- 

 clas()ing, and ciliate. Sheaths shorter than the jouits, somewhat hai- 

 ry. — Spikes from four to ten, small, short, sessile, secund, equally 

 inserted on the four or six-sided, villous rachis. — Flowers ge- 

 nerally paired, and both unequally pedicelled, with an involucre 

 of long soft hairs on the outside of tlie pedicel. — Cali/x, exterior 

 valve minute, and truncate, the inner two equal, five-nerved. — Co' 

 rol, with a neuter valve. 



31. P. hirsutum. Kon. 



Leaver broad-lanceolate, with cordate, stem-claspitig base, wav- 

 ed, ciliate, and hairy. Flozcers, polygamous, solitary, sessile. Seed 

 ovate, transversely rugose. 



Hind. Jal-ganti. 



Teling. Salla woodoo. 



Is found on the borders of cultivated land, on pasture ground, &c. 

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

 above ustendnig ; joints downy. — Leaves broad, base cordate and 

 embracing the culms, much waved, hairy, with the edges ciUate ; 

 sheaths also hairy with a thick beard round the mouths.— S/^iVces 

 composed of six or twelve, simple, alternate, secund, expanding 

 spikelets, suiromuling a common, four or five-sided, hairy rachis. 

 — Partial, rachis three-sided, hairy. — Flozcers in two rows, single, 

 alternate, sessile, often intermixed with bristles, — Calyx, all the 

 valves hairy and striated — Corol ; a complete, one-valved male flo- 

 ret in the same calyx v.ith the hermaphrodite. — Seeds ovate, trans- 

 versely rugose, white, daggered. 



Obs. Cattle are very fond of it. 



5*2,. P. tomentosum. R. 



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

 long, from six to eight-flowered, intermixed with hispid bristly invo- 

 lucels. Seed ovate, transversely wrinkled. 



