292 fsiAiTDRiA ciGTNiA. Panicum. 



liie ridge membranaceous. — Flczcers collected in sessile bundles of 

 iiom four to eight, alternately disposed on the upper end of each 

 joint. — Calijx, tlie exterior one minute, and lanceolate \ \\ie second 

 large, embracing loosely the corol, pointed, and striated ; the inner 

 one nearly as small as the exterior^ tapering from the base to a fine 

 point, Uuee-nerved ; margins fringed, of a chaffy texture. — Corot as 

 in the genus, and rather longer t'lian the inner ^ Junie of the calyx, 

 here is a third neutial membranaceous valve, as in many species of 

 this genus. 



Sect. 5d. Spikes fascicled. 



]2. P. dacljjJon. Linn. Sp. VI. ed. JViUd. i. 342. 



Smooth, creeping. Spike'i digitate, secund, corol gibbous on one 

 gide, and twice as long as the calyces. 



Agrostis linearis. Linn. Sp. PL ed. llilld. i. C>13. Retz. Obs. iv. 

 jV. 51. Sir W. Jones. Asiat. Res. iv. /;. 248. 



Sans. -d^-^j, Doorva, ^<T"^'o^T» Slu^t/q Mrvika, ^^Tg'^^;, Stu 

 hiisi u\eer\ a, -^121 ^, BhargMvte, \$^'^X» Ouroolia,^i^X, l/nauta, 



Ben 7^. Dooiba, * 



Teiing. Gliericha. 



'Jam. /\rugani-j)ii!a. 



This is by far the most common and useful grass in India. It 

 grows every where abundantly, and flowers all the year. 



Root creeping. — Culms creeping, with their flower-bearing branch- 

 lets erect, from six to twelve inches high, smooh. — Leaves small, 

 and smooth. — Spikes from three to five, terminal, sessile, fililorm, 

 expandng, secund, from one to two inches long. Rachis waved. 

 — Florcers, alternate, single, disposed in two rows on the underside. 

 — Califx much smaller than the corol. — Corol, the large or exterior 

 valve boat- shaped, keel slightly ciliate Stigmas villous, purple. 



Obs. This most valuable grass forms three-fourths of the food of 

 our horses and cows in India. It is by the brahmwus of the Coasts 



