Paniatm, triandria digynia. 287 



Obs. It agrees perfectly well with our Indian species of Panu 

 cum, on that account I have transferred it to that genus. 



This species is much cultivated over the higher lands on the 

 Coast of Coromandel. Tlie soil it likes is one that is loose and 

 rich ; in such ic yields upwards of an hundred fold, the same ground 

 will yield a second crop of this or some other sort of dry grain dur- 

 ing October, November, December, and January. 



The Hindoo farmer knows four other varieties of this species, 

 all of which he cultivates. Their Teliuga names are \st. Pz^^a (birds) 

 Gantee ; Id. Munda-boda-Gantee ; 3d. Palla-boda-Gantee ; Vknd 

 4th. Yerra-Gantee. 



Cattle are fond of the straw, and the grain is a very essential ar- 

 ticle of diet amongst the natives of these .parts. 



4. P. invohicratum. R. 



Erect. Spikes cylindric, numerous, scattered, two-flowered, al, 

 ternately longer and ciliate; shorter and smooth. Calyces iwo-valv- 

 ed^ the exterior one minute, the inner one shorter than the corol, 

 and emarginate. 



A native of mountains chieflv, ^Yhere it grows w ild. 



Culms as in the last species, from two to four feet high ; joints 

 woolly — Leaves, mouths of their sheaths bearded. — Spikes as in P. 

 spicatum, but the pedicels smaller, two-flowered. — Involucre, many 

 bristles surrounding oi> all sides the flowers, they are of two sorts, 

 simple ones awled, and longer ones with fringed margins.— Ca/^T 

 one or two-flowered ; valveiets as in the last species. — Corol, when 

 there is only one to the calyx it is hermaphrodite, when two, one 

 hermaphrodite the other n)ale as in the last species. — Styles two. 



Obs. I know of no use this is put to at present ; it may be Pani- 

 cmn spicatum in its wild state, though it is more like my Pani' 

 cum holcoides in its present wild state. 



/ 5. P. glaucum. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. IVilld. i. 335^. 



Culms erect, from one to three feet high ; involucel one bundle of 



