plant about 3/4–1 ft. high; stems cæspitose, slender, branching at the base, irregularly much curved backwards and forwards, ochreous, smooth, not shining; sheaths 3–5 lin. long, closely convolute in the lower half, ending in a rigid subulate subpungent point about as long as the sheathing part, dark brown; male spikelets terminal, solitary or occasionally 2 together, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, lanceolate, about equally acute at both ends, dark brown; bracts 2 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, boat-shaped, shortly mucronate, straw-coloured in the lower half, dark brown at the apex, with slightly paler margins; perianth-segments submembranous, straw-coloured; outer lateral segments 1 1/2 lin. long, densely ciliate with brown hairs on the keel; inner segments 1 1/4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse; anthers narrowly oblong, apiculate; female spikelets not seen. null
