The _spikelets_ vary from 1/2 to 2/3 inch excluding the awn. There are three _glumes_. The _first glume_ is about 3/8 inch long, lanceolate-linear, narrowed into a short awn. The _second glume_ is longer than the first, 1-nerved and minutely 2-toothed or notched at the base of the awn. The _third glume_ is 5/8 inch long, 3-nerved, nearly smooth. The callus of the third glume is long, densely silkily hairy with three awns not jointed at the base with the glume; _awns_ about 1 inch or more. _Lodicules_ are ovate-lanceolate, fairly large. Grain is narrow, cylindrical. This grass grows in open dry situations in many parts of the Presidency. _Distribution._--All over India. =Aristida Hystrix, _Linn. f._= This is a diffuse perennial grass with a creeping root-stock, with fairly stout sometimes proliferous freely branching stems; branches are stiff, erect, inclined or prostrate, varying in length from 6 inches to 2 feet. The _leaf-sheath_ is glabrous and cylindric. The _ligule_ is a ridge of close-set hairs. _Nodes_ are glabrous. The _leaf-blades_ are quite flat, narrowly lanceolate-linear very finely acuminate, glabrous on both the surfaces but with tufts of hairs on both sides at the base where the blade joins the sheath, prominently nerved; margin is even and without any hyaline border, the blade varies in length from 2 to 9 inches. [Illustration: Fig. 174.--Aristida Hystrix. 1. A spikelet; 2, 3 and 4. the first, second and the third glume, respectively; 4a. the third glume and its awns; 5. palea of the third glume; 6. lodicules, anthers and the ovary.] The _inflorescence_ is an effuse panicle, as long as broad, varying in length from 4 to 10 inches; the main rachis is stout, finely scabrid, with stiff slender, horizontally spreading or reclining branches that arise in pairs from the nodes, the branches have swollen bases at the nodes and they are covered by long hairs. The _spikelets_ are 3/8 inch long excluding the awn. There are three _glumes_. The _first glume_ is chartaceous, lanceolate, acuminate and terminating in an awn, 1-nerved, 3/8 to 1/2 inch including the awn, with the keel very finely scabrous. The _second glume_ is longer than the first, chartaceous, lanceolate, terminating in an awn, 1/2 to 3/4 inch long including the awn, with a smooth keel. The callus of the third glume is short, pointed and villous. The _third glume_ is chartaceous finely scabrid 1/4 to 3/8 inch long excluding the awn, 3-nerved, 3-lobed at the apex and the lobes becoming awns; _awns_ are 1 inch long, the middle one being a little longer. The outer margin of the glume is broader than the inner margin and is rounded at the apex at the base of the awn. There are three _stamens_ and the anthers are pale or purplish. The style branches are purplish. The _lodicules_ are 1/8 inch long obliquely lanceolate. This grass is fairly common in all open dry situations throughout this Presidency. _Distribution._--Deccan Peninsula and Ceylon.