1. Inflorescence; 2. a portion of the spike; 3 and 4. sessile and pedicelled spikelets front and back view, respectively; 5. the scale-like first glume; 6, 7 and 8. the second, third and the fourth glume, respectively; 9. palea of the fourth glume; 10. the lodicules, stamens and the ovary.] There are four _glumes_. The _first glume_ is a minute scale. The _second glume_ is shorter than the third and narrower, 5-nerved, ciliate, acute or sometimes with two fine teeth. The _third glume_ is oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved (rarely 3-nerved), ciliate on the nerves. The _fourth glume_ is lanceolate, acute, sub-chartaceous, paleate; _palea_ is like the glume in texture. _Anthers_ are yellow and _stigmas_ are white. _Lodicules_ are two and small. This seems to be a good fodder grass. It grows in all kinds of soils. It is not so common in the plains as on the hills, though it occurs in the plains at the base of the hills. _Distribution._--Throughout India. [Illustration: Fig. 74.--Digitaria sanguinalis, _Var. extensum_.] =Digitaria sanguinalis, _Scop._= _Var. extensum._ This grass is an annual with stems ascending from a prostrate or geniculate, rooting branched base, greenish or purplish, glabrous and varying in length from 1 to 2-1/2 feet. The _leaf-sheath_ is thin, herbaceous, rather loose, keeled and glabrous. The _ligule_ is a distinct membrane, truncate, rarely irregularly toothed. The _nodes_ are glabrous. The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, acuminate, flat when mature and convolute when young, glabrous, 1 to 12 inches long and 1/6 to 1/3 inch broad, the margin is very closely and finely serrate, the midrib is prominent with three or four main veins on each side. The _inflorescence_ consists of a few or many spikes, corymbosely arranged on a short angular slightly rough axis, erect or spreading, 1-1/2 to 4 inches long, the lowest ones in whorls of two to four; the rachis is nearly triquetrous, laterally winged, base thickened and with a few long white hairs; the peduncle is cylindric, smooth, 6 to 12 inches long. [Illustration: Fig. 75.--Digitaria sanguinalis, _Var. extensum_. 1. A portion of spike; 2, 3 and 3a. the back and front views of a spikelet; 4, 5 and 6 the first, second and the third glume, respectively; 7. palea of the third glume; 8. anthers, lodicules and the ovary.] The _spikelets_ are oblong-lanceolate, acute, about 1/10 inch long, binate, one pedicelled and the other subsessile, the pedicel is angular, about 1/2 to 2/3 the length of the spikelet.