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an ovate base, smooth, ciliated ; spikes in fives, digitate ; spikelets 

 solitary, or in twos or threes ; glumes 3-nerved, the upper one 

 densely ciliated on the margin ; outer palea terminated by an awn. 

 Syn. Panicum cimicinum, Retz. Obs. iii, 9; Milium cimicinum, 

 Linn. Mant. 184. 



2. U PANICOIDES, Beauv. Agrost. 52, t. 11, fig. 1. Culms 

 creeping near the base, the rest erect, smooth, 1 1 foot high ; leaves 

 long, narrow, smooth ; racemes subdigitate, 3 to 8 ; spikelets 

 alternate, in 2 series, unqually pedicelled ; glumes glabrous ; sheaths 

 hairy. Syn. Milium sanguinale, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i, 315; Panicum 

 javanicum, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv, 274. 



3. PANICUM, Linn. 

 (Spikes several, racemed. ) 



1. P FLUITANS, Retz. Obs. iii, 8; and v, 13. Culms 2 to 3 

 feet high, creeping at the base ; leaves long and smooth ; mouths of 

 the sheaths bearded and subciliate ; spike compound; partial ones 

 alternate, adpressed ; spikelets bifarious, elliptic; lower glume very 

 short and truncate, upper obovate, rounded, a little shorter than 

 the paleae; lower flower neuter, with 1 valve; seed elliptic acute, 

 minutely wrinkled, 



2. P PROSTRATUM, Lam. Encycl. iv, 745. Culm creeping, 

 branched, 1 to 2 feet long; nodes pubescent; sheaths either glab- 

 rous or ciliated ; leaves lanceolate, from a cordate base, 1 to 2 

 inches long, ciliated at. the base ; racemes 4 to 1 5, crowded, alternate, 

 much longer than the intervals ; spikelets twin and solitary, oval, 

 acute, smooth ; lower glume quarter the length of the flowers ; 

 hermaphrodite floret cuspidate-mucronate, slightly wrinkled. About 

 Surat. Syn. P procumbens, Nees. Agr. Bras. 109; Panicum 

 setigerum, Retz. Obs. iv, 1 5. 



3. P BRIZOIDES, Jacq. Eclog. Gram, i, t. 2. Culms near the 

 base, resting on the ground, above ascending, compressed, smooth ; 

 leaves bifarious, smooth ; mouths of the sheaths bearded ; spikes 

 compound; spikelets bifarious, ovate, ventricose; both glumes 

 ovate; lower one-third shorter than the flower; upper a little 

 shorter than the flower; seed ovate, obtuse, smooth. Near Surat. 



( Spikes subdigitate, fascicled, or panicled.) 



4. P CILIA RE, Retz. Obs. iv, 16. Spikes 4 to 5 digitate un- 

 divided ; flowers imbricated ; outer valve of the glume very minute, 

 without nerves ; inner one half the length of the flower ; leaves 

 lanceolate, waved, rather hairy ; sheaths smooth. Syn. Digitaria 

 ciliaris, Pers ; Syn. i, 85. 



