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flower neuter or male, 1 — 2-valved, outer val valet truncated, ciliolate 

 at the apex, equalling the glume, 3-nerved, glandular-dotted, the 

 other valvelet oblong, ciliated at the apex, often wanting. 



Mountains near Banda. 



(5) P. HOLCOIDES. fSchult.J 



■ Ident. Schult Mant. II. 148. 



Syn. Panicum holcoides, Roxb. I. e. p. 285. 



Spec. 'Cha£. Culmsliranohed, erect, 2 — 4-feet, glabrous : sheaths 

 bearded at the throat : involucels numerous, scattered, 1 -flowered, 

 bristles alternately longer, woolly, and another shorter and smooth : 

 flowers sometimes polygamous : lower glume minute, upper 3-toothed 

 at the apex. 



Mountaia tracts, growing on cultivated lands. 



(6) P. AtTEETTM. fLink.J 



Ident. Link. H. Berol. I. 215.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 294. 



Spec. Chak. Culm 2-feet and with the bases of the leaves much 

 compressed : leaves much longer than the culm, margins at the base 

 ciliated : spike 2 — 3 inches long, imbricated on all sides : bristles 

 of the involucre rough, elongated, rigid, yellowish. 



Common everywhere in the Deccan. 



GENUS IX. CENCHRUS. 

 VplandFia Dig'ynla. Sex: Systi 



Deriv. The oriental name of the Millet. 



Gen. Chae. Thyrse simple : spikelets sessile, 1 — 5, within an 

 involucre : glumes 2 (lower one sometimes suppressed), membrana- 

 ceous, acute, lower one small, more or less shorter than the florets, 

 3 — 5 -nerved : lower floret neuter or male, membranaceous, 1 — 2- 

 valved : upper floret hermaphrodite, sub-chartaceous : upper valvelet 

 closely embracing the lower : involucre consisting of bristly or 

 thorny-partite coriaceous segments, more or less connate at the base 

 into a solid disc : caryopsis oblong, rather hard. 



(1) C. EAMOSISSIMTJS. (PoW.) 



Ident. Poir. Enoyo. suppl. v. 51. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 294. 



Spec. Chae. Eoot flbrous and bulbous : culm branched above, 

 sub-scandent, smooth, round : leaves flat, narrow, finely acuminated, 

 rough on the inner surface, slightly hairy : spikes terminal, solitary 



