The _spikelets_ are closely appressed and each one has four _glumes_. The _first_ and the _second glumes_ are empty, 2/5 inch long, rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base into an erect, scabrid awn, 1-nerved. The _second glume_ has broad hyaline margins towards the base. The _third glume_ is about 1/10 inch, ovate, with a short scabrid awn at the tip, scaberulous at the back just above the middle, 3-nerved, paleate and with both stamens and ovary; _palea_ is narrow, lanceolate, as long as the glume and 2-toothed at the tip. The grain is oblong, brownish. The _fourth glume_ is about half as long as the third glume, with a short, stout, smooth rachilla, ovate-lanceolate, terminated at the tip by two teeth and a short awn, scabrid above the middle at the back, paleate and male; _palea_ is shorter than the glume; the rachilla is produced beyond the fourth glume and terminates in a thickening. This grass grows in open somewhat dry loamy and laterite soils in the East Coast districts. _Distribution._--Mysore and the Carnatic and Ceylon. =Gracilea Royleana, _Hook. f._= This is a slender annual grass. Stems are very slender, densely tufted, geniculately ascending or erect, 3 to 8 inches long. The _leaf-sheath_ is either covered with scattered tubercle-based hairs or glabrous. The _ligule_ is a hairy ridge. The _nodes_ are glabrous. The _leaf-blade_ is filiform, linear-lanceolate, acutely pointed, glabrous or nearly so, margins distantly ciliate, 1 to 2 inches long by 1/16 inch or less. The _inflorescence_ is 1/2 to 3 inches long and consists of fascicles of spikelets; the rachis is trigonous, smooth, and flexuous. [Illustration: Fig. 188.--Gracilea Royleana. 1. A fascicle of spikelets; 2. the spikelet without the first and the second glumes; 3,4, 5 and 8. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively; 6. palea of third glume; 7. grain; 9. palea of the fourth glume; 10. rachilla.] The _spikelets_ consist of four _glumes_. The _first glume_ is rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base to an erect scabrid awn, 1-nerved. The _second glume_ is also coriaceous, narrowed to an awn but has broad hyaline margins towards the base. The _third glume_ is ovate-lanceolate, scabrid all over the back and with two teeth, one on each side of the awn, paleate; the _palea_ is 2-toothed at the apex and as long as the glume and contains three stamens and the ovary. The grain is oblong brownish. The _fourth glume_ is stalked, shorter than the third glume, distinctly 3-toothed at the apex, scabrid at the back above the middle, paleate and male; the _palea_ is smaller than the glume and 2-toothed at the apex. The _rachilla_ is produced behind the palea and it ends in two small teeth, one being slightly larger than the other.