210 SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES 



chartaceous and the keel with a serrulate wing above the middle. 

 The third glume is linear oblong, hyaline, obtuse, ciliate, nerveless. 

 The fourth glume is the narrowly winged 2-lobed base of the awn , 

 lobes are lanceolate erect and palea of the fourth glume is minute. 

 Lodicules are cuneate. Stamens are three. 



The pedicelled spikelets are oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, 

 glabrous and male. There are three glumes. The first glume is 

 glabrous or rarelv puberulous, margins incurved, obtuse, 9- to II- 

 nerved. The second glume is ovate, acute, 3-nerved. The third 

 glume is oblong or linear-oblong, hyaline, apex rounded, ciliate and 

 faintly 2-nerved. 



This .grass grows all over the Presidency in open dry situations 

 and is very widely distributed. 



Distribution. — Throughout India — westward to tropical Africa. 



