The _leaf-blade_ is narrow, linear, acute, rigid, flat, glaucous, smooth or scaberulous, with margins scabrid and ciliated with tubercle-based hairs especially towards the base, and varying in length from 2 to 15 inches. The _inflorescence_ is an open panicle, ovate or oblong, varying in length from 2 to 5 inches; the _rachis_ is slender, smooth or scaberulous, the branches are capillary, whorled and spreading, tip oblique, bearded and bearing a single sessile and two pedicellate spikelets. [Illustration: Fig. 158.--Andropogon monticola. 1. Sessile and pedicellate spikelets; 2, 3, 4 and 5. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the sessile spikelet; 6. anthers, ovary and lodicules; A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4. the glumes of the pedicelled spikelet; A-5. lodicules of the pedicelled spikelet.] The _sessile spikelets_ are bisexual, about 1/4 inch or less, with a long callus bearded on one side with long rusty hairs. There are four _glumes_ in the spikelet. The _first glume_ is chartaceous, linear, complicate, 2-toothed at the tip and with short bristles towards the apex, 4-veined. The _second glume_ is chartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, much broader than the first, ciliate with long rufous bristles on the keel, shortly toothed at the apex with an _awn_ about 1/3 of an inch and with broadly hyaline margins. The _third glume_ is hyaline, narrow-oblong, ciliate and obtuse. The _fourth glume_ is narrow, oblong, hyaline with an _awn_ nearly an inch long. There are three _stamens_ and two _lodicules_. The _stigmas_ are long and feathery. The _pedicelled spikelets_ are as long as the sessile and the pedicels are flattened and with long rufous hairs on both the margins. There are four _glumes_. The _first glume_ is lanceolate, acute and awned between two teeth, 7-nerved and scaberulous. The _second glume_ is lanceolate, acuminate, with thinly ciliate hyaline margins, 3-nerved. The _third glume_ is shorter than the second, narrow, hyaline, ciliate at the margins, 2-nerved. The _fourth glume_ also is small, hyaline, ciliate, and 1-nerved. There are three _stamens_ and two _lodicules_. This grass is found growing all over the Presidency on the plains and even on low hills. It grows into a tall plant in rich soils and remains stunted in poor, dry and rocky soils. Cattle eat this grass. _Distribution._--Throughout India and Ceylon and in Africa. =Andropogon caricosus, _L._= This is a perennial grass more or less tufted in habit and closely allied to _Andropogon annulatus_, Forsk. Stems are erect or decumbent below or ascending from a creeping base, rooting at the nodes, smooth, glabrous and much branched, varying in height, from 1 to 2 feet; branches are short, slender and sometimes even capillary, with _nodes_ bearded or not in branches ending in solitary spikes, and completely glabrous when they end in binate spikes.