The _panicle_ is narrow, 3 to 6 inches long, peduncle smooth below but thinly pubescent above, lower branches long, few in a whorl; rachis is very slender, angular, glabrous or hairy. The _spikes_ are solitary and each one consists of one sessile and two pedicelled spikelets. The callus is long and densely bearded with brown hairs. [Illustration: Fig. 157.--Andropogon Wightianus. 1. A spike; 2, 3, 4 and 5. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the sessile spikelet; 6. lodicules, stamens and the ovary; 7, 8, 9 and 10. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the pedicelled spikelet.] _Sessile spikelets_ are bisexual, sub-cylindric about 1/4 inch long. There are four _glumes_. The _first glume_ is chartaceous, laterally compressed, obscurely 4-nerved, glabrous below, hispid near the apex, minutely 2-toothed or not at the apex, not awned or rarely with a short awn. The _second glume_ is chartaceous, distinctly awned, the _awn_ being as long as the glume or longer, hispid above and at the sides also. The _third glume_ is hyaline, linear-oblong, 2-nerved ciliate. The _fourth glume_ is narrow with hyaline margins, with an _awn_ 2 to 3 inches long; _awn_ is hispid below, twisted and geniculate at and less hairy above the middle. Stamens are three. Styles are two and feathery. Lodicules are very small. _Pedicelled spikelets_ are male or neuter, flattened, hairy, rarely glabrous. The pedicels are half as long or slightly longer than the sessile spikelet, truncate or semi-circular at the top, and with brown villous hairs along the margin. There are four _glumes_. The _first glume_ is about 3/8 inch, ciliate, along the inflexed margin, 7-nerved, awned; _awn_ equal to or longer than the glume. The _second glume_ is as long as the first, shortly awned or acuminate, 3-nerved, ciliate. The _third glume_ is hyaline, oblong, 2-nerved, sparsely ciliate. The _fourth glume_ is narrow, ciliate, nerveless or rarely 1-nerved, erose or bifid at the top. _Anthers_ three or more. This grass grows on the plains as well as on the hills. It is very closely allied to _Andropogon asper, Heyne_, and it is very difficult to distinguish them. _Andropogon Wightianus_ is somewhat smaller compared with _Andropogon asper_, and the tubercle-based bristles on the leaf-sheaths, so characteristic of _A. asper_, is absent. _Distribution._--Madras, Chingleput district, Kodaikanal and the Nilgiris. =Andropogon monticola, _Schult._= (_Chrysopogon monticola._) This is a perennial grass. The stems are usually slender, densely tufted, erect, simple, or branched, leafy especially at the base, varying in height from 1 to 3 feet. The _leaf-sheaths_ are sparsely hairy or glabrous, the lower somewhat compressed and the upper terete. The _ligule_ is a short, ciliated membrane. The _nodes_ are glabrous.