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the sessile raceme. Fertile spikelets oblong, slightly wider above the middle, 

 subobtuse., 4 mm. long, greenish, glabrous ; callus very small, obtuse, minutely 

 bearded. Involucral glumes equal, subchartaceous. lower minutely truncate, 

 flat on the back with a fine median grove in the lower half, keels narrowly 

 w ; nged frjm the middle upwards, intracarinal nerves 1 on each side towards 

 the keels, very fine ; upper narrow in profile, very acute, very narrowly winged 

 above the middle with 1 delicate nerve on each side near the margin. Lower 

 floral glume delicate, oblong, minutely truncate, ciliolate, nerveless, upper 

 substipitiform, almost 3 mm long, 2-fid to the middle, segments subulate, 

 ciliolate, awn very fine, 10-14 mm. long, bent at and twisted below the middle. 

 Anthers almost 2 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelets male, linear to lanceolate- 

 oblong, subobtuse, 4 mm. long, green, glabrous ; lower involucral glume 

 slightly convex on the back, subherbaceous, about 10-nerved, the inner 6 nerves 

 prominent, upper subhyaline, 3-nerved ; floral glume oblong, truncate, sub-2- 

 nerved, almost 4 mm. long. 



Locality : Gujarat : On sandy and gravelly hills and banks, Ahmedabad and 

 Prantij . 



Distribution : Throughout the Carnatic, Gujarat, Arabia, Somaliland. 



For history and uses see Stapf Kew Bull. (1906), 342-345, 361. 



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