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thinly adpressed-pilose with hairs (which are tubci culnted at 

 the base) and siibglaucons Ijcneath, about o-'.) mm. l)r();i(l ; 

 midrib strong and pale above, very angustatc and prominent 

 beneath; nerves 4-7 on each side; nervulcs delicate. between 

 the nerves ; ligule short, truncate, membranaceous ; sheath long, 

 finely striate, adpressedly piloso-pubesccnt or glabrous. Pani- 

 cle long-peduncled, digitately 3-5-racemed, with whitish-brown 

 hairs ; common rachis vci-y short, consisting by one internode, 

 8-13 mm. long. Racemes subsessile, elongate, straight, coarc- 

 tate, erect, densiflorous, 10-14 cm. long; rachis often arched, 

 compressed with acute edges, articulated (the nodes oblique, 

 with verticillate short hairs), slender, pilose with often sub- 

 violaceous long stift' hairs, the inner face flat and glabrous, the 

 dorsal face rounded ; internodes subercct, linear, slightly thicker 

 and enlarged above, straight, 3-5 mm. long ; nodes with ver- 

 ticillate short and dense hairs which are white or often light 

 violascent and directing upwards. Flowers 2, about 6 mm. 

 long ; the lower one nearly sessile ; the upper one pedicellate ; 

 pedicel straight, the inner side flat and glabrous, the dorsal 

 side rounded and long-hairy, shorter than the lower flower. 

 I-glume lanceolate, attenuated towards the apex, chartaceo- 

 membranaceous, yellowish-brown, but often reddish-brunneous 

 on both sides of the basal and upper portions, rather hard, 

 membranaceous and blunt or bifid at the apex, 5-6^ mm. long; 

 the dorsal face nearly flat, often shallowly concave longi- 

 tudinally, hard, smooth except the both edges, bordered 

 by the presence of the nerves, scabrous towards the edge 

 in the upper portion ; margins inflexed, membranaceous, 

 entire, the edgy angle thick, with a row of hairs above, 

 3-nerved close the edge and enerved towards the centre, 

 the nerves greenish and connected each other with the 

 branch-nerves near the apex ; Il-glume somewhat longer than 

 the I-glume, boat-shaped, lanceolate, obtuse-keeled, attenuat- 

 ed towards and acuminate at the apex, membranaceous, 

 yellowish-brown, glabrous, 3-nerved and the lateral ones 

 marginal and very weak (obscure) connecting to the midnb 

 above, 6-7 mm. long; margins narrowly reflexed and thinly 



