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Peduncle slender, terete, pubescent under the panicle. Panicle 

 digitately 4--8-racemed, purpureo-ferruginous or fulvous, densely 

 villoso-pubescent, erect then spreading, about 15-23 cm. long ; 

 common rachis short, angulate, villoso-pubescent with erect- 

 patent hairs, about 1^-3 cm. long. Racemes 2 or 1 to a 

 node of the common rachis, slender, 13-22 cm. long, 3-5 ram. 

 broad, many-flowered and long awned, ferruginous ; rachis tri- 

 quetrous, densely and antrorsely pilose on the angles ; inter- 

 nodes 3-5 mm. long, somewhat enlarged above. Flowers 2, 

 about 5mm. long; the lower one sessile; the upper one pedi- 

 cellate ; pedicel straight, the inner side flat or subconvex and 

 glabrous, the dorsal side rounded and densely setuloso-pilose 

 with erect-patent rufous hairs (hairs longer and adpressed in 

 the upper ones), shorter than the lower flower, about 3 mm. 

 long. I-glume 4i-5i ram. long, angustato-lanceolate, slightly 

 attenuated above, bifid with ciliolate obtuse or acute lobes at' 

 the apex ; the dorsal surface flat and shallowly vertically con- 

 cave in centre, hardened in the upper portion, pilose with long 

 erect hairs except the upper half and hairs slightly exserted 

 beyond the apical end, reddish-brunneous or yellowish-brown, 

 chartaceo-membranaceous ; margins reflexed, entire, or ciliated 

 above ; nerves 2 or sometimes 3 on each side, intramarginal, 

 the innermost one stronger and reaching the apex, the 

 outer one or two disappear before reaching the apex, or 

 connected to the innermost one above ; Il-glume equal to 

 or slightly exceeding the I-glume in height, same-coloured 

 with the I-glume, membranaceous, oblong, abruptly acute 

 at the apex, naviculate with a rounded-obtuse keel : the dorsal 

 portion pilosulous in the lower half, but the upper portion 

 scabrous; the margin reflexed, fringed with dense pili above, 

 with a weak nerve near the margin and the nerve connected to 

 the midrib above ; Ill-glume very slightly exceeding the I-glume, 

 linear-lanceolate, long-attetiuated towards the upper portion, 

 abruptly obtuse or subtricuspidate (the middle cusp larger and 

 acute) at the apex, membranaceous, pilosulous on the dorsal 

 surface above, 1-nerved on each side and the nerves disappear 

 in the median portion, brown or yellowish-brown below, hya- 



