200 SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES 



three stamens and two lodicules. The stigmas are long and 

 feathery. 



The pedicelled spikelcts are as long as the sessile and the 

 pedicels are flattened and with long rufous hairs on both the 

 margins. There are four glumes. The first glume is lanceolate, 

 acute and awned between two teeth, 7-nerved and scaberulous. 

 The second glume is lanceolate, acuminate, with thinly ciliate 

 hyaline margins, 3-nerved. The third glume is shorter than the 

 second, narrow, hyaline, ciliate at the margins, 2-nerved. The 

 fourth glume also is small, hyaline, ciliate, and I-nerved. There 

 are three stamens and two lodicules. 



This grass is found growing all over the Presidency on the 

 plains and even on low hills. It grows into a tall plant in rich 

 soils and remains stunted in poor, dry and rocky soils. Cattle eat 

 this grass. 



Distribution. — Throughout India and Ceylon and in Africa. 



