This species is a tall robust one resembling _Chloris barbata_ in its inflorescence, but with larger spikelets--as large as those of _Chloris tenella_. No doubt it is closely allied to _Chloris barbata_, but differs from it by having larger spikelets that are 3- to 5-awned and 1- to 3-flowered, and the nerves being bearded throughout their length with long hairs. Specimens of this grass were sent to Kew and Calcutta herbariums for identification and they were named _C. montana_, with which I could not agree. So again I sent these specimens along with specimens of what I considered _C. montana_ to Dr. Stapf at Kew through Mr. Gamble and Dr. Stapf wrote about these thus:--"We have not been able to match it with any of the described species of _Chloris_ and Mr. Ranga Acharya will be fully justified in describing it as a new species. We have had it apart from Wight's specimen from the following collections:--(1) Sattur, November 19, 1795, sub-Andropogon barbata, Var.? Herb Rottler. (2) Ahmednagar-Miss Shattock (U.S. Dept. Agri.--received 1914). (3)Tornagallu, Bellary district, 11th August 1901 (Ex herb Ranga Acharya in Herb, Bourne No. 3594)." _Distribution._--This grass was found growing in abundance in the fields Nos. 13, 37 and 62 of the Agricultural College and in the grounds around the Forest College, Coimbatore, and was also collected in Hagari and Samalkota. This grass grows well and is likely to prove useful, as cattle seem to like it. [Illustration: Fig. 204.--Chloris montana.] =Chloris montana, _Roxb._= This is a perennial grass usually met with on dry soils. The stems are erect, tufted, geniculately ascending from a creeping base rooting at the nodes, quite glabrous, varying in length from 4 inches to 4 feet. The _leaf-sheaths_ are shorter than the internodes, flat, compressed, glabrous, with a few hairs or not at the mouth and with membranous margins; the uppermost sheath is spathiform enclosing the inflorescence when young. The _ligule_ consists of only a thin ridge of short hairs densely arranged. _Nodes_ are glabrous and dark-ringed, and with fan-like spreading equitant leaf-sheaths and leaves more especially when rooting. The _leaf-blades_ are narrow linear, finely acuminate, rounded at the base, glabrous throughout, folded flat inwards, 1/2 to 8 inches long, 1/16 to 1/8 inch broad. The _inflorescence_ consists of three to six (very rarely up to nine) spikes, 1 to 3 inches long, connate at the base, erect and never spreading, the peduncle is slender, long, glabrous and copiously pubescent just below the base of the connate spikes; _rachis_ is angular, slender and scabrid. [Illustration: Fig. 205.--Chloris montana. 1. A portion of the spike; 2. a spikelet; 3 and 4. first and second glumes; 5 and 5a. third glume and its palea; 6, 7, 8 and 9. fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh glumes; 10. lodicules, ovary and stamens; 11. grain.]