FESTUCACE/E 301 



The flowering glumes are broadly ovate, oblique, obtuse, some 

 times with a minute mucro, sub-chartaceous, puncticulate, strongly 

 three-nerved, paleate, about 1/12 inch long ; palea is shorter than the 

 glume, curved, obovate-oblong, keels ciliolate and persistent. 

 Stamens are three with very small pale yellow anthers. Stigmas 

 are two and white. Lodicules are very small. Grain is globose 

 reddish brown, minutely and obscurely lineolate. 



This grass is a very common weed occurring in cultivated dry 

 fields all over this Presidency. 



Distribution. — Throughout India and Ceylon in the plains and 

 low hills. Occurs also in tropical and sub-tropical parts of Asia 

 and Africa. 



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