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the second glume but is far lower. The second glume is ovate-acute, 

 7-nerved. The third glume is equal to the second, 5-nerved, paleate, 

 empty; the palea is narrow, hyaline, acute. The fourth glume is 

 ellipsoidal, obtuse, chartaceous, minutely and obscurely rugulose, 

 faintly 3-nerved, with the base somewhat thickened. Palea is 

 similar to the glume in texture. Anthers are orange-yellow. 

 Lodicules are minute and fleshy. Style branches are purple. 



This grass is fairly common in open and loamy and sandy 

 soils. The form (var. brevi/olium, Wight & Arnott) is fairly 

 common in Coimbatore District. 



Distribution.— Plains of India and Ceylon. Not recorded from 

 the Bombay Presidency. It occurs in China, Malaya and Australia. 



