This is a perennial grass closely resembling _Iseilema laxum_ in its habit, but shorter, stouter and branching more freely. The leaf is similar to that of _I. laxum_ in all its parts. [Illustration: Fig. 170.--Iseilema anthephoroides. 1. A cluster of spikelets with spathes; 2. the involucral and the inner spikelets; 3. the inner spikelets; 4 and 5. the glumes of the involucral spikelets; 6, 7, 8 and 9. the four glumes, respectively, of the sessile spikelet; 10. ovary; 11 and 12. glumes of the inner pedicelled spikelets.] The _pedicelled spikelets_ of the involucel have firmer harder, shorter and broader pedicels, thickly bearded and consist of two glumes only. The _first glume_ is very strongly 5-nerved, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate; with scaberulous infolded margins, with long cilia. The _second glume_ is lanceolate, thin, 3-nerved, glabrous. The inner _pedicelled spikelets_ are similar to the pedicelled spikelets of the involucel. The _sessile spikelet_ has four glumes. The _first glume_ is elliptic-lanceolate, apex drawn into a long narrow strip ending in two teeth or truncate, sparsely ciliate at the margins about the middle, faintly 3-nerved. The _second glume_ is shorter than the first, lanceolate, drawn out into an acuminate point at the apex, hairy at the back. The _third glume_ is hyaline, short, oblong, apex broad and irregularly toothed, nerveless. The _fourth glume_ is an awn. This is very common in the Deccan districts and grows on all kinds of soils. This is a good fodder grass. _Distribution._--Very common in the Ceded districts and Nellore. CHAPTER IX. Series II--Poaceae. TRIBES V AND VI--AGROSTIDEAE AND CHLORIDEAE. The tribe =Agrostideae= is a very small one. It is represented in South India only by a few genera. The spikelets are usually 1-flowered and the rachilla is jointed at the base just above the empty glumes and it is not produced beyond the flowering glume. There are only three glumes in the spikelet. Sub. Tribe 1. =Stipeae=.--The spikelets are narrow and long, panicles and the flowering glumes are rigid or hard, and awned. The third glume is narrow, long, awn 3-fid 31. Aristida. Sub. Tribe 2. =Euagrosteae=.--The spikelets are very small, in open or contracted panicles. The third glume is thin and membranous, awnless. 32. Sporobolus. =Chlorideae= is also a small tribe with about ten genera, most of them being very common in Southern India. The spikelets are unilaterally biseriate on the rachis which is not jointed at the base. There are one or more flowers in the spikelet, all or only the lowest being bisexual. The rachilla is jointed just above the empty glumes and it is produced or not beyond the flowering glumes. The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate. Rachilla produced beyond the flowering glume. Spikes usually solitary.