194 SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES 



though small. Styles and stigmas short. Stamens are three with 

 yellow anthers. Stigmas are purple. 



The pedicelled spikclets are similar to the sessile ones, but are 

 slightly smaller and the prickles are less prominent. The fourth 

 glume has no mucro or awn and has three stamens. 



This grass is fairly abundant in moist situations, in the margins 

 of tanks and in tankbeds in the Coromandel districts, but in other 

 inland districts it is not so common. In some places it seems to 

 be cultivated. This is the khus-khus grass. 



Distribution- — Throughout the plains and lower hills of India, 

 Burma and Ceylon, also said to occur in Java and Tropical Africa. 



