242 SOUTH INDIAN GRASSKS 



The spikelets are 1/20 to 1/16 inch long, lanceolate, acuminate, on 

 finely capillary pedicels long or short, pale at first and becoming 

 purplish when old. There are three glumes, the first two being 

 empty. All the glumes are i-nerved and membranous. The first 

 glume is membranous, about two-thirds of the second, sometimes 

 less, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate slightly scaberulous on the keel. 

 The second glume is a little longer than the third, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, scaberulous on the keel. The third glume is oblong- 

 ovate, glabrous, flower bearing, paleate ; the pale a is shorter than 

 the glume, 2-nerved, splitting into two between the nerves. 

 Anthers are three, small, pale yellow at first but becoming purple 

 when old, stigmas are pale. Lodicules are two and minute. Grain 

 is rounded, slightly compressed, oblique at the base, nearly as long 

 as broad. 



Distribution. — In black cotton soils in Coimbatore and Bellary 

 districts. 



