286 TRiANDRiA DiGVNiA. ' Patiicum. 



voluci els arc simple 'and about llie length of the flowers. The 

 two sorts surround on all sides a single ilower. — Calyx one-flower- 

 ed, exterior valve very minute. — Seech smooth, slender and pointed'. 

 Obs. It difters from my P. holcoides in the culms being very ramous 

 at the top only, and in the leaves bemg lanceolate ; from pulus a- 

 cln/on it dilfers, 1 thinic, in having two sorts of involucrets equally dis- 

 posed round the flower, and in the leaves being lanceolate and smooth, 



S. P. spicatum. R. 



Erect. Spikes cylindric. Jv^ro/Moes hairy, surrounding from one to 

 threeawnless polygamous flowers. Ca/yces two-valved, both shorter 

 tha)i the corol, the inner longer and retuse. 



Holcus spicatus. Linn. bp. Fl. ed. JVilld. iv, 928. 



Gramen paniceum, Pluck. &c. aim. t. 32. y. 4. good. 



Hind. JiMJera, or B?<jra. 



Pedda-Gantee is the Telinga name of the plant, and Gantiloo, 

 the grain. 



1 have only found this in a cultivated state. It is sown about 

 the beginning of the rains, viz. the end of June, and the beginning of 

 July, and ripe in September. 



Culms several, if the soil is good, from the same grain of seed, 

 erect, with roots from tiie lowermost joint or two, round, smooth, 

 from three to six feet high, and nearly as thick as the little finger. 

 • — Leaves alternate, sheathing, broad and long ; mouths of the 

 sheaths bearded. — Spikes or rather racemes, terminal, cylindric, erect, 

 as thick as a man's tluimb, or more, and from six to nine inches 

 long. Pedicels generally two-flowered, though sometimes only 

 one and sometimes as many as four. — /'/oayer^ surrounded with ma- 

 ny, woolly, hispid purple bristles or involucres, about the length ot 

 the flower — Calijx two-flowered, one hermaphrodite the othermale, 

 two-valved; exterior valvelet minute, interior nearly as long as the 

 corol, retuse, both awnless. — Corol of the hermaphrodite flower 

 two-valved, of the male one-valved Style single. Stigma two- 

 cleft, feathery.— 5ee£^ obovate, pesyrl-coloured, smooth. 



