1 and 2. Front and back view of a portion of a spike; 3. a spikelet; 4. first glume; 5. second glume; 6. third glume; 7. palea with the rachilla at its back; 8. lodicules, stamens and the ovary; 9. clavellate and pointed hairs of the margins and keel of the third glume (very much enlarged); 10. grain.] The _inflorescence_ consists of four to eight long, thin, slender, slightly drooping, digitately arranged spikes, 2 to 4 inches long on a long smooth peduncle; the rachis is tumid and pubescent at its base, slender, somewhat compressed and scaberulous. The _spikelets_ are rather small, narrow, greenish or purplish, 1/15 inch long or less, the rachilla is slender, produced to about half the length of the spikelet behind the palea. There are three _glumes_. The _first_ and the _second glumes_ are lanceolate acute or acuminate, 1-nerved, keeled, keel obscurely scabrid, very unequal, the first glume being always shorter than the second glume. The _third glume_ is obliquely ovate-oblong, chartaceous, longer than the second glume, obtuse or subacute and 3-nerved; the margins and keel with close set clavellate hairs pointed at the apex; _palea_ is chartaceous, 2-keeled, keels obscurely scaberulous and without hairs. There are three _stamens_ with somewhat small purple anthers. _Ovary_ with purple stigmas and two small _lodicules_. Grain is oblong reddish brown, with a faint dorsal groove. This species is closely allied to the cosmopolitan species _Cynodon dactylon_, Pers. and to another new species _Cynodon Barberi_, Rang. & Tad. described in the "Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society," Volume 24, part IV, page 846, and it is therefore named _Cynodon intermedius_. (See Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Volume 26, part I, pages 304 and 305.) This grass differs from _Cynodon dactylon_, Pers. (1) in not having underground stems and having only stems creeping and rooting along the surface of the ground, (2) in having less rigid leaves, (3) by having longer, slenderer, somewhat drooping spikes and narrower spikelets, (4) by having the first two glumes always unequal, the second being longer, (5) by having clavellate pointed hairs on the margins and keels of the third glume and (6) by having smaller anthers. Compared with _Cynodon Barberi_, this plant is more extensively creeping with longer slender branches and the leaves are usually very much longer, and the third glume is longer than the second. _Distribution._--So far, this was collected at Gokavaram in Godavari district No. 8262, in Chingleput No. 11488, in Tinnevelly district Nos. 13129 and 13259, and at Kallar on the Nilgiris No. 13988. [Illustration: Fig. 194.--Cynodon Barberi.] =Cynodon Barberi, _Rang. & Tad._= This grass is perennial with slender, creeping stems, 12 to 24 inches long, rooting at the nodes and invariably with two or three rarely more branches from each node; flowering branches are slender, erect or ascending, 1 to 6 inches long.