ANDKOPOGONE/E 145 



pubescent, herbaceous, many-nerved and with a narrow mem- 

 branous margin on one side only in the pedicelled and solitary 

 spikelets and on both sides in the sessile spikelets. The second 

 glume is narrower, dorsally compressed, ovate, acuminate, 5- to 9- 

 nerved, laterally compressed and with a narrow wing to the keel 

 near the apex in sessile spikelets and dorsally compressed without 

 the keel in the pedicelled and solitary spikelets. The third glume is 

 membranous, oblong, acuminate, 3- to 5-nerved, with three stamens 

 and paleate ; the palca is hyaline, broadly linear. The fourth 

 glume is very slender, linear, hyaline, with or without stamens, 

 paleate ; palea is flat, narrowly linear. Lodicules are present and 

 they are small. The anthers in the third glume are larger than 

 those in the fourth glume. 



The female spikelet is oblong, 1/6 inch long, I-flowered and 

 with four glumes. The first glume is thickly coriaceous, white, 

 shining, closely embracing the rachis and the other glumes entire 

 at the tip. The second glume is quadrately oblong, many-nerved. The 

 third glume is oblong, narrower than the second,3- to 5-nerved pale- 

 ate, empty. The palea of the third glume is narrow, truncate. The 

 fourth glume is narrow, truncate, 3-nerved, paleate ; the palea is 

 truncate and wrapped round the ovary. Styles are long and 

 stigmas slender. Lodicules are not present. The grain is fusi- 

 form, terete and within the nut-like polished hardened glume. 



Distribution. — In damp situations all over India. 



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