culms erect, slender, firm, in dense and tight fascicles from a slender woody base, 1 1/2–2 ft. high, glabrous, smooth, densely leafy below, sheathed all along; sheaths tight except the uppermost, firm, striate, glabrous or more or less sparsely hairy and ciliate near the mouth, lower 1–1 1/2 in. long, uppermost 6–9 in. long, almost reaching to or beyond the base of the panicle; ligule a dense fringe of hairs; blades finely filiform-convolute from a broader base, 6–9 in. long, lower up to 2 lin. broad at the base, rigid, flexuous, glabrous and smooth below, finely puberulous or scaberulous on the upper side, margins scaberulous; panicle very lax, open, 6–7 in. long; rhachis filiform, smooth, bearded at the lower axils, otherwise smooth; branches 2–3-nate or solitary, very loosely di- to tri-chotomous or alternately divided from 1/2 to 1 1/2 in. above the base, longest 4–5 in. long, filiform, flexuous, glabrous, smooth; branchlets and pedicels unequal, subcapillary, smooth, the latter 2–18 lin. long; spikelets slightly nodding, straw-coloured, about 10 lin. long; glumes setaceously acuminate, scarious, shining, smooth, glabrous; valves oblong, body 1 3/4 lin. long, densely hairy, 9-nerved; lobes large, lanceolate, acute, scaberulous, as long as the body of the valve or almost so, with a bristle 3–4 lin. long, from the inner side, adnate to it for 3/4 its length; awn about 7 lin. long, kneed at 1/3 way up; pales as long as the valve (inclusive of the lobes), densely pubescent, 2-toothed; lodicules ciliate; anthers 2 lin. long. null
