Linn. Sp. Pl. 1049 ; glabrous, creeping, branches erect leafy, leaves ovate to lanceolate rigid, spikes 2 short stout glabrous, gl. I of sessile spikelet oblong 2-toothed smooth keels narrowly winged above, II acuminate keel winged above the middle, IV oblong shortly 2-fid shortly awned between the acute ciliate lobes. Gaertn. f. Fruct. Suppl. 1, t. 181 ; Kunth Enum. Pl. i. 512 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 212 ; Wall. Cat. n. 8865 ; Wight Cat. n. 1716, Herb. n. 3078 ; Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 364 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. Pl. 107 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 520. I. glabratum, Presl Rel. Haenk. i. 328. I. repens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 323 ; Wight Cat. n. 1715. Andropogon muticus, polymorphus, relictus & repens, Steud. Syn. Gram. 374, 375, 377, 374.
The DECCAN PENINSULA, from Canara southwd. BURMA, the MALAYAN PENINSULA and LACCADINE ISLDS. CEYLON, common.—DISTRIB. China, Malaya, Australia.
Rootstock very stout, creeping for several feet in sand ; branches 2-10 in., stout, usually leafy up to the spike ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 1-6 in., rarely more, sessile or subsessile, flat, stiff, base rounded or cordate, brown when dry ; sheath smooth ; ligule obscure. Spikes 1-1.1/2 in., joints and pedicels stout, 3-gonous, = about half the sessile spikelet, truncate, shortly ciliate. Sessile spikelets 1/8-1/6 in., glabrous, callus very large, smooth ; gl. I acute, thickly coriaceous, shining, obscurely many-nerved, dorsally ciliate above the middle, margins below broadly incurved ; II larger, rigid, glabrous, 5-nerved ; III oblong, obtuse, glabrous, palea with a narrow hyaline wing ; IV = II, chartaceous, convolute, 5-nerved ; palea oblong-lanceolate, keels ciliate. Pedicelled spikelets laterally compressed ; gl. I with the margin on one side inflexed and broadly winged, concave, hairy ; gl. IV usually bisexual.
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