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grows in water-boles and places where water has lodged ; it has a conspicuous ligule 

 of a fringe of hairs, as noticed by Dr. Stapf in his clavis on p. 384 in the ' Plora 

 Capeusis,' while F. Crus-galli has no ligule. 



\ KK. frumentacea, Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. (1885) p. 104. Tall, robust; 

 panicle often nodding ; spikes thickened, often incurved, sometimes 

 branched and corymbosely panicled , lower floral glume cuspidate but 

 not awned. El. B. I. v, 7, p. 31 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 

 (1901) p. 433; Prain, Beiig. PI. p. 1174, Paaicum frame ataceum, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. V. 1 (1832) p. 304 ; Grab. Cat. p. 237 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 6, part 1, p. 9. Oplismenus fnanentaceits, Dalz. & Gribs. Suppl. p. 98. 

 — Vern. Sha inula. 



Cultivated in and near the Ghat districts. The quickest growing of all the millets 

 and in some localities can be harvested within six weeks after being sown ( Watt). 



5. Panicum colonum, Linn. Syst. ed. 10 (1759) p. 870. Annual ; 

 stem 1-2 ft. long, slender, decumbent or shortly creeping below ; nodes 

 glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 4-8 by \-\ in., narrowly lanceolate 

 or linear, acuminate, flat, glabrous, with scaberulous margins ; sheaths 

 up to 6 in. long; ligule 0. Spikes 8-20, suberect, usually distant, 

 g-l in. long ; rhachis stout, angular, scaberulous on the angles. 

 Spikelets hj^tV "^- lo"&' globosely ovoid, acute or subcuspidate, more 

 or less hispidly pubescent, secuud, sessile, 3-5-seriate. Glumes 4 ; 

 lower invol. -glume about | as long as the lower floral glume, broadly 

 ovate or suborbicular, membranous, 3-nerved, eiliolate ; upper invol. - 

 glume about equal to the lower floral glume, broadly ovate, cuspidate, 

 concave, 5-7-nerved, hairy ; lower floral glume similar, empty, with a 

 hyaline palea ; upper floral glume coriaceous, broadly ovate, turgid, 

 acute, finely striolate, polished, yellowish- white, with a coriaceous 

 palea. Very similar to P. frumentaccum, Roxb., but a more slender 

 plant with smaller spikelets. El. B. I. v, 7, p. 32 ; Grab. Cat. p. 237 ; 

 Trim. El. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 136 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 433 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1174 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, 

 p. 7. 0plis7nenm colonus, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. v. 1 (1815) 

 p. 108; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 291.— Elowers : Oct. Vern. Bovur ; Sdma. 



Konkan: Stocks\ S. M. Country : 'Lox\Aii,Woodrow. Gujarat : Morvi (Kathiawar), 

 Wuodrow. — Sind: Stocks, 6501, Woodrow; Shikarpur, Woudrow. — Distrjb. Through^out 

 the plains of India ; Ceylon, most warm countries. 



6. Panicum Isachne, Roth, Nov. PI. Sjj. (1821) p. 54, Annual ; 

 stems many, 1-2 ft, long, ascending from a decumbent or creeping 

 and rooting base, geniculate, very slender, with villous nodes, otherwise 

 glabrous, much branched below, simple above. Leaves 1-2 by yV- 1- in., 

 linear-lanceolate from a rounded base, acute, subpungent, glabrous or 

 sparsely hairy with scaberulous margins ; sheaths glabrous or hairy, 

 ciliate on the upper part ; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence 

 2-3 in, long, erect, consisting of 6-12 secuud or subsecund racemosely 

 arranged spikes |-1 in. long, longer than the internodes, sessile or 

 shortly pedunculate, usually appressed to the ti'iquetrous slender hairy 

 rhachis. Spikelets y^2~tV ^"- ^•^^S? secund, closely imbricate in 2 series, 

 oblong, subacute or obtuse, softly hairy ; rhachis of spikes triquetrous 

 hairy, about -i^^ in. in diam. ; pedicels very short. Glumes 4 ; lower 

 invol.-gluine minute, triaugular, membranous, glabrous ; upper invol,- 



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