284 SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES 



40. Pommereulla, Linn. J. 



This is a short, stout, creeping perennial gr^ss- Spikelets are 

 2- to 3-flowered, distichously racemed, narrowly turbinate, villous. 

 Glumes are 5 to 7 in a spikelet. The first two glumes are narrow, 

 membranous, persistent, the first glume being I-nerved and shorter 

 than the second which is 3- to 5-nerved. The third and the fourth 

 glumes embracing the fifth and the sixth are empty, flabelliform, 

 4-lobed, and dorsally shortly awned. The fifth, sixth and the 

 seventh are cuneate, obovate and 3-lobed, palea ovate, acute, and 

 pubescent. Lodicules are two and membranous. Stamens are two 

 to three with small anthers. Grain is oblong, compressed and free. 



