paniculately branched

Bot.: Loosely branched. paniculately-racemose, a. Bot .: Having for its inflorescence a panicle formed by numerous racemes. păn-1-cům, subst. [Lat. a kind of millet, from pan is bread, the grain of some species being used in its manufacture.] Bot .: Panick-gra ; the typical genus of the tribe Panicese (q.v.). Flowers in spikelets of two flowers, the upper one perfect, the lower having only stamens or neuter. Known species 850 ( Stendel ), 500 (Sir Joseph Hooker ). They are mostly tropical. Panicum ( digit aria ) glabrum and P. (echinochloa) crux gall i are naturalized in Britain, and P. san guinale is a corn-field casual. P. miliaceum , the Indian Millet, believed by De Candolle to be a native of Egypt and Arabia, was early introduced into India, where it is extensively cultivated, as it is in the south of Europe, for food for man.