1174 BENGAL PLANTS. | Avonopus. 
2519. Axonopus crmicinus Beauy.; F. B. I. vii. 64. Panicum 
cimicinum i 
In most of the provinces. 
A tufted grass. 
2520. Axonopus semraLatus Hook. f.; F. B. I. vii. 64. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A densely tufted grass. 
1054. Panicum Linn. 
Annual or perennial opp ; leaves broad or narrow, flat 
rarely plicate; ligule 0 or of hairs. Spikelets small, 1-2- arr 
terete or dorsally or laterally compressed, solitary or 2-nate, often 
secund, ice te on their pedicels and deciduous, rarely awned, 
Glumes 4; I. and It. empty, I. smallest and fewest-veined ; Il. and 
att, oe eo ae Ree ovate or lanceolate; III. usually 
IV. 
neuter, palea’ aceous or papery, haere 
shortly Lecniep acres. 5-7- mean paleate, 2- sexual, the p: 
usually as long as the glumes, membranous; lodicules 2, pas : 
stamens 3; styles distinct ; sitesi exserted near the top of the 
spikelet. Grain free, but tightly embraced by the hardened glume 
and palea, oblong, ellipsoid or lanceolate. 
*Spikelets dorsally compressed or subterete :—[p. 1176] : 
one gra racemose of simple, rarely hte! spikes bearing 
secund spikelet . 1175 
is of pits broad and flat :—[p. 1175] 
Spikelets 2-seriate :— 
a Bd ag Ee EE te DENTE eno eT ee ca Isachne. 
Spikelets glabrous :— i 
pikes shorter than the internodes .... flavidum. 
— longer than the internodes :— 
e IV. granulate punctatum. 
ae me IV. smooth -++fluitans. 
Spikelets — ; glume III. cuspidate or aw are — 
ems stout, erect; leaves broa 
‘Secs of spikes erect :-— i 
Glume Hie awned Crus-gallt. 
Glume III. only cuspidate ...Crus- pies var. frumentaceum. 
Raceme 4 spikes drooping ; pe oe ute 
age var. deine 
Stems slender, decumbent; leaves narrow; glume III. on 
uspidate _...colonum. 
