301 TUiANDRiA DiGYNiA. Panicum. 



This is a delicate, rare species, found grouiug in tufts, or dry 

 pasture ground over various parts of India. 



Culms, ascending, compressed towards the base, branchy, from 

 twelve to eighteen inches high. — heaves soft, covered with much, 

 long, soft hair ; sheaths half the length of the joints ; montli beard- 

 ed. — Spikes compound, terminal, consisting often or twelve (.i^ne- 

 rally alternate, though sometimes in pairs) spike/etb of si\ oi eight 

 flowers, intermixed with hispid bristles, they are nv>t placed an one 

 side, but round the common rachis, which is generally tliree-sid- 

 €d. — Calyx, tlie two interior valves five-nerved ; the secoiui, iialf 

 the length of the corol, as in P. glaucuin. — Corolhas a liurd neu- 

 ter valve. — Seed transversely wrinkled, as in P. glaucum. 



S5. P. xertkillaium. Linn. Sp. TL ed. Willd. i. 334. 

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

 backwardly hispid bristles. Seeds oblong, three-nerved, and rugose. 

 Hind. Dora-byara. 

 Teling. Chicklenta. 

 Delights in a lich soil in out of the way corners, where there is 



rubbish, Sec. 



Culms, below resting on the ground and striking root, above weak, 

 often leaning over to one side, smooth, length of the creepmg part, 

 from one to two feet, and that of the more erect culms from one to 

 two feet. — Leai;^ sheathin:;, linear-lanceolate, a little downy ; mar- 

 gins hispid when felt backwards; mouths of the sheaths hairy.— 

 Spikes columnar, compound, from three to for.r inches long, ge- 

 nerally matted together by means of the bristly involucels. — Spike- 

 lets or rather raceinelets, tending to be verticelled, generally four m 

 the verticel, composed of three or four short-pedicels, each bearip.g 

 a few flowers ; all intermixed with very stiff bristles (Involace/s) arm- 

 ed with sL'ort, stiff, recurved points, by which they adhere firmly 

 to every thing that touches them. — Ca/j/x as in the family. — Co/ol, 

 a third neuter valve, but no stamens to it. — Seed three-nerved, and 

 slightly waved across. 



