ANDKOPOGOXE/E 213 



The bisexual or (female) spikelets are linear-oblong, obtuse, and 

 the callus with reddish hairs. The first glume is scabrid, deeply 

 channelled at the back, nerveless, narrowly truncate at the tip, and 

 hispid near the apex. The second glume is as long as the first, 

 linear, hyaline, 3-nerved, chartaceous at the back with the sides 

 membranous and incurved. The third glume is small, hyaline, 1- 

 nerved and epaleate. The fourth glume is the narrowed base of the 

 awn which is l / 2 inch long. 



This grass is very common in marshes and in wet low-lying 

 places on the hills and occurs also in the plains in Malabar and 

 South Kanara. 



Distribution. — The Deccan Peninsula, from the Konkan and 

 Central Provinces southward, and Ceylon. 



