culms very slender, over 1 ft. long; uppermost sheath long, narrow, with a rudimentary blade, glabrous; racemes simple or compound below, silky villous, 3–7 lin. long, on the slender branches of a narrow, flaccid, scantily branched panicle, 2–3 in. long; rhachis finely filiform, triquetrous, smooth, internodes 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long; spikelets 2-nate or the lowest on 3–4-spiculate short branchlets, oblong, subacute, 2–1 1/2 lin. long, unequally pedicelled, pedicels finely filiform, smooth and glabrous or with very few rigid hairs near the discoid tips; lower glume delicately hyaline, ovate, obtuse, up to 1/4 lin. long, nerveless, glabrous or scantily hairy; upper lanceolate-oblong, subacute, 1 lin. long, 3-nerved, densely and long villous, margins delicately hyaline, rather broad; lower valve oblong, subacute, 1 1/2 to almost 2 lin. long, 7-nerved, glabrous along the middle-nerve, densely villous on the sides, particularly along the upper edge of the inflexed margins, hairs acute, somewhat rigid, often purplish, exceeding the valve; upper valve subchartaceous, oblong, acuminate, up to 1 1/2 lin. long. null
