288 »RiANDUiA DiGYNiA. Panicum, 



hairy bristles, one-flowered. Flowers generally polygamous. Ssced 

 transversely rugose. 

 , Jjen<^. Pinoj-natchi. 

 Telins. Naka-kora. 



This species is generally found on cultivated lands, growing 

 amongst llie different sorts of stnall or dry grain. 



Rout fibrous. — Culms sometimes near the base resting on the 

 ground, and striking root ; ilie rest erect, ramous, smooth, a little 

 compressed ; fiomune to three feet high. — Leaves shenthnv^, nearly 

 bifarious, smooih ; mouths of the sheaths hairy. — 'Spikes terminal, 

 columnar, from two to six inches long. — Flozcers soWVdvy , orjumed 

 to the rudiments of one or two more, short-pedicelled, numerous. 

 — Invohicels longer than the ilowers, consisting of one bundle of 

 hairy bristles which issue from the nviddle of the underside of the 

 pedicel. — Ca/z/r generally two-flowered, in which case one is malc^ 

 the \)ther henitaphrodite, with its corol, as in the family. The male 

 corol consists of one membranaceous glume b Jtween the inner vahe 

 of the coiol and inner glume of the calyx, it has three stamens 

 only. 



Ohs. It may probably be P. heltolum of the Supplement um Flan- 

 tar urn. P. 107- 



In India we have two or three varieties of this coarse grass, can 

 any of them be Alupecurus indicus? the small reddish one comes very 

 near it. 



C. P. hfdcoides. R. 



Erect. Invnl uceh nnmerons, scattered, one-flovvered, alternate- 

 ly one longer and woolly, and another shorter and amoolh ijlowers 

 sometimes polygamous. Seed oblong, smootli, resembling a small 

 grain of common oats. 



Beng. Swat?. 



Grows, with the former, on cultivated lands, but chiefly up 

 amongst ^he mountains. 



Root fibrous.— 0^<^/i5 erect, ramous, from tvvolo four feet high, 



