298 SOUTH INDIAN GRASSES 



third and the succeeding flowering glumes are ovate, obtuse, as 

 long as the second glume or slightly longer, sub-chartaceous, 

 glabrous, three-nerved; palea is shorter than the glume, curved 

 obovate oblong and persistent on the rachilla. Stamens are 

 three with small anthers. Style branches are two. Lodicules 

 are minute. Grain is nearly globose, compressed on one side, 

 obscurely rugulose. 



This grass is not very widely distributed although it occurs in 

 some parts of the Presidency. It is common on the West Coast in 

 sandy places. 



Distribution. — From the Punjab to Bengal and Burma and 

 Southward to Carnatic. Also said to occur in Afghanistan and 

 Tropical Africa. 



