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HcnmiQate, glabrous and green above, finely scabrous and glaucous beneath, 

 scabrous-margined, contracted into a slender petiole at the base, attaining 

 about 60 cm. long, 7-25 mm, broad ; midrib slender ; lateral main veins 4-5 

 on each side; veinlets close; lignle produced, subulato-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 chartaceo-membranaceous, about 10-25 mm. long ; sheath long, glabrous or 

 scabrous, straight, striate; cauiinc; leavi s loosely ])laced, broader than the 

 radical ones, linear-lanceolate or angnstato-lanceolate, gradually long-acuminate, 

 gradually cuneato-attenuated towards the base, attaining 50 cm. long, 3icm. 

 broad, finely scabrous on the margin and both surfaces, green above, 

 subglaucous beneath ; midrib slender ; lateral main veins about 5-7 on each 

 side; ligule produced, ovato-lanceolate, membranaceous, abmit 7-13 mm. 

 long; sheath long, glabrous, terete, striate, glabrous on margin. Panicle 

 large, erect, pyramidal-conical or ]\vramidal-ovate, attaining 45 cm. long, 

 24 cm, wide, very loose, remotely with 7-8-verticils ; conmion rachis straight, 

 slender, terete, snbscabrous ; branches j)atent, verticillate or semi-verticillate 

 with sub-numerous to few unequal ones, rigidulons, capillaceous, scaberulous, 

 usually with loose and adpressed branchlets, the longest one attaining about 

 21 cm, SpiculfB 1-flowered, solitjiry, laxly and secondly disposed, articu- 

 lated to the to[) of pedicels, adj»ressed or erect-patent, obloug-linear or 

 lato-linear, ncute at the apex, more or less narrowed below, terete, virides- 

 cent, 4-5 mm, long, the lateral ones very shortly pedicellate. 1st glume 

 oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, hyalino-membranaceous, minutelly scabro-ciliated, 

 with 1 nerve not reaching to tlie top, or 3-nerved at the base, about 

 2i mm. long; 2nd glume longer than the 1st one, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 entire, hyaline, extremely thin towards the upper margin, nearly smooth 

 dorsally, with 3 nerves which exceed the middle but not reach to the top 

 and are connected with a venule above, about 3mm. long; 3rd glume 

 scarcely longer than the 2nd one, elliptico-ovate, obtuse, light green, hyalino- 

 membranaceous towards the margin, strongly 3-nerved, sometimes sub-5- 

 nerved, nearly smooth dorsally, about 3i mm, long; 4th glume slightly 

 longer than the 3rd one, lato-elliptical, obtuse-truncate at apex, hyalino- 

 membranaceous towards the apex and margins, pale and thinly mem- 

 branaceous in centre, strongly remotely 2-nerved, subtilely scaberulous 

 externally, involving the genitals, light green towards the nerves, subhyalino- 

 membranaceous and one-folded in centre, not carinate, about 4 mtu, or more 

 long, Lodicules 3, as long as the ovary, ovate, oblique, sliortly acuminate 

 or subobtuse, entire, hyalino-membranaceous, two of them thick at the 

 base. Stamens 3, exserted ; filament filiform, not exceeding the spicula ; 

 anther oblong-linear, about 3J m:n, long, the cells acute at the apex, 



