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TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. PantCUTtt, 



nick thin ; Jlozvers paired on a common petlicel, with unequal par- 

 tial pedicels ; coral three-valved ; seed ovate, smooth, five-streaked. 



Teiino-. Nella-shama. Nella-shamuloo, tlie grain. 



This species I have found only in a cultivated state, it is one of 

 the sorts of dry or small grain which is generally cultivated on au 

 elevated, light, rich soil. 



Culms, many from the same seed, erect, branchy, round, smooth, 

 from two to three feet hi^U.— Leaves smooih.— Panicle oblong, 

 beautifully bowing with the weight of tlie grain ; branches alternate, 

 ramous ; capillary, angular, W\spid.—Floiceis oval, paired upon a 

 common pedicel, with unequal partial pedicels.— CtfAyc^s, glumes 

 smooth, striated lengthways with nerves.— Co/ o/, accompanied by 

 a neuter valve. — Seed oval, striated, smooth, shining brown. 



Obs. The seed is an article of diet with those Hindoos who inha- 

 bit the higher lands. Cattle are fond of the straw. 



47. P. miliaceum. Linn. Sp. PL ed- Willd. i. 348. 



Culms erect, rarrious, from two to four feet high ; the whole plant* 

 very hairy. Taukle oblong ; glumes of the calyces cuspidate ; corol 

 three-valved ; adventitious valve two-toothed ; seed oval, smooth, 

 five-streaked. 



Sans. wtr^^T^, Vreehibhedo, ^^, Unoo. 



Hind, and Beng. Cheena. 



Teling. Worga ; VVorglo, the grain. 



This is another of the cultivated cerealia ; the same soil suits it 

 as is proper for the last described species. Time of culture hnme- 

 diately after the rains. 



Culms many from the same seed, erect, ramous, very hairy ; from 

 two to four feet high.— Learn large, with long sheaths, which in- 

 volve most part of the culms, every part covered with much white 

 hmr.-Fanicle as in the former, only here and there a fe^^ 

 hairs.-Ca/j/r all the three glumes are much pointed. -CoroZ the 

 neuter valve is here emargiuate. :Nectari/ two, triangular, emargiii- 



