biennial (?), without innovation-shoots (?); culms geniculate, suberect from a slender short rhizome, branched, about 1 1/2 ft. long, rather firm, glaucous, glabrous, smooth, 3–4-noded, internodes exserted, branches sometimes fascicled; sheaths glabrous, loosely striate, upper tight, lower at length loosened, rather firm, more or less persistent; ligule a fringe of minute hairs; blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 1 1/2–3 in. by 1–1 1/2 lin., flat or involute, rigid, often spreading, glaucous, glabrous and smooth below, scaberulous and sometimes finely hairy in the upper part; panicle ovate-oblong to oblong, sometimes secund, about 2 in. long; axis smooth, angular towards the nodes; branches 5–7, spreading, triquetrous, more or less secund and spike-like from densely clustered spikelets, the lowest up to 1 in. long; pedicels very short; spikelets ovate, subacute, strongly compressed, 2 lin. by 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin., whitish, 7–13-flowered, often tinged with greyish-purple; rhachilla disarticulating; glumes oblong to ovate in profile, acute or mucronate-acuminate, 3/4–1 lin. long, 3-nerved; valves very broad-ovate in profile, acute, boat-shaped, 1 lin. long, hyaline margins broad below, side-nerves prominent; pales 3/4 lin. long, curved; keels scabrid above and with a large decurrent tooth-like appendage at the middle; anthers 2/5 lin. long; grain oblong, 2/5 lin. long, brown, smooth; pericarp loose. null
