1180 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Panicum. 
In all the provinces. 
A matted grass, floating on ponds and ditches. Beng. 
Borati, kalas-nar, dalakri ghas. 
2552, Panicum Montanum Roxb.; F. 1. i. 313; F. B. I. vii. 58. 
A rigid, broad-leafed perennial grass 
2553. PANICUM SARMENTOSUM Roxb. ; F. I. i. 308 ; F, B. I. vii. 54. 
N. Bengal, Duars ; Chitta, 
A long, branched, scandent perennial g grass. 
2554. Panicum puicatum Lamk; F. B. I. vii. 55. P. nervosum 
wh SLE. 
Chota Seine on Parasnath. 
A tall, erect, perennial grass. 
. Panicum FLAVESCENS Sw.; F. B. I. vii. 56. P. costatum 
g DSI a as 
bo 
On 
an 
on 
C. Bengal, common 
A a rather flaccid perennial grass. Beng. Bans- 
pati ghas 
2556. eee RHACHITRICHUM Hochst. ; F, B. I. vii. 56. 
Cho ur. 
A rags rather flaccid, tufted annual grass 
2557. Panicum Trigonum Retz; F. 1. i. 805; F. B. ‘a vii. 56. 
ngal. 
" perennial, decumbent, wiry grass. 
1055. Digitaria Lamk. 
Perennial or annual grasses ; leaves linear or lanceolate. Spike- 
lets 1-flowered, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the 
pedicel but not acted at the base, awnless. Glwmes normally 
4, the lowest sometimes absent or present in the same species; I. 
epaleate, as long as IV., or II. sometimes shorter than III.; IV- 
flowering, paleate, coriaceous, smooth, shining, the palea cori- 
aceous, With inflexed margins; stamens 3; styles 2, free; stigmas 
plumose, exserted near apex of spikelet. Grain oblong, com 
pressed, free, but tightly enclosed between the hardened glume 
and the palea. 
*Spikelets -1 in. long or longer :—[p. 1181] 
tRachis slender, narrowly winged or wingless :—{p. 1181] 
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