Panicum, tRlANDRlA DlGYNlAt 5Gi| 



0^5. Cattle will not eat it^ so that it is reckoned a troublesome 

 weed wherever it is found. 



Plants reared from English seed, were not near so luxuriant as 

 those of India, but evidently the same species. Thunberg's large 

 cultivated variety is certainly Panicum italkum. Curtis's tigure in 

 his Flora Londinemis is represented with the leaves broader a' the 

 base than our Indian plant, or even than m plants reared m India, 

 from English seed. 



34. P. italkum. Linn. Sp. PL ed. TVilld. i. 336. 



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

 from two to three or four- flowered, with smooth bristles intermixed. 

 Seed ovate, ihree-nerved. 



Panicum. Ruoiph. Amb. v. p. 202. t. Ho.f. 2. 



Sans. ^^, K«ngoo, f^^^, Priyungoo. 



Peno-. Kungoo, and Kuugnee. 



llind. Kora. 



Telins,' Kora ; Koraloo, the grain. 



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

 ed in many parts of India, and requires an elevated, light soil. I ne- 

 ver 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.— ieares, 

 maroins backwardly hispid ; mouths of the sheaths bearded.— SpzAes 

 compound, Sic. There is more or less of a third, or neuter valve on 

 the corol. 



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

 out vacancies between 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 month of June and July ; harvest time in September; produce 

 about fifty-fold in a favorable season. A second crop may be had 

 from the same ground, between September and the end of January, 



