S14 TuuANDRiA DiGYNiA. Pantcum. 



mificalions rather remote, above approximate, and composed of ' 

 unilateral short spikelets — Flowers soHtary, paired, or threefold, 

 when more than one they are on pedicels of unequal lengths ; some- 

 times there is a single coloured brislle from the pedicels of the ex- 

 terior flowers. — Calt/x three-valved, two-flowered, one of the flow- 

 ers male, with a corol of one membranaceous glume \ the other her- 

 maphrodite, and having the usual two-valved coro!. — Seed oblono', - 

 rugose on the convex-side. 



Obs. It is of too coarse a nature for cattle, but its foliage make 

 It orna.nental in the shrubbery, or flower-border. 



50. P. nervosum. R. 



Erect, from three to four feet high. Leaves lanceolate, plaited ; 

 sheaths longer than the joints, with the mouths bearded. Panicle ve- 

 ry thin, composed of long, simple, fdiforin, remote branches. Flow- 

 ers geneially single, with a neuter valve to the corol. 



J^rom Nepala Dr. Buchanan sent tlie seed to the Botanic Gar- 

 den, where the plants blossomed in October, just one year from the 

 time the seed was sown. 



jRoo^ perennial. — Culms erect, slender, completely invested in the 

 sheaths of the leaves, except from six to twelve inches below the 

 panicle; height three or four feet. — [.eaves lanceolate, plaited, a 

 lilile hairy, particularly near the base, from six to twelve inches long, 

 and one and a half hvoad.— Sheaths longer than the joints, a little 

 hairy ; mouths bearded. — Panicle very thm, and composed of long, 

 eimple, filiform, drooping branches. Spikelets remote near ihe 

 base, secund, bearing a few alternate, generally single flowers, 

 —C«/j/x three-valved, smooth, from three to seven-nerved.— Co/o/, 

 with a third neuter valve, but no stamens. 



Obs. In foliage this agrees very exactly w'lih my Fanicum plica- 

 turn, but differs widely in the panicle. 



51. P. cosiaium. R. 



Culms creeping. Leaves lanceolate, plaited, very hairy, as also 



