The _leaf-sheath_ is distinctly striate, covered with scattered long tubercle-based hairs, very rarely glabrous, keeled. The _ligule_ consists of a row of hairs. The _nodes_ are hairy. The _leaf-blade_ is flat, ovate-lanceolate, broad and cordate at base, subacute or obtuse, with a distinct midrib and three main veins on each side of it, glabrous on both sides, but usually with tubercle-based hairs on the two sides of the midrib, on the lower side, the margins are distinctly ciliate with tubercle-based long stiff hairs and very finely serrate; the blade varies in length from 3/4 to 3 inches and in breadth from 3/4 to 1/2 inch. The _inflorescence_ consists of three to ten spikes springing from the top of a slender glabrous peduncle 2 to 6 inches long. The _spikes_ are whorled, about 3 inches or so in length, naked towards the base to about one-fourth of its length, the rachis is fine, filiform, scabrid. The _spikelets_ are solitary or binate, dorsally compressed, pale green or reddish, very shortly pedicelled, 1/4 to 5/16 inch long inclusive of the short awn, pedicel is cupular at the tip. There are four _glumes_ in the spikelet. The _first glume_ is somewhat narrow ovate-lanceolate, hyaline, acuminate and 3-nerved. The _second glume_ is membranous, ovate-lanceolate, twice as long as the _first glume_, cuspidately acuminate, 5-nerved; the two marginal nerves are provided with long reddish bristly hairs. The _third glume_ is oblong lanceolate, obtuse, 5-nerved, a little shorter than the second glume, paleate and with stamens; _palea_ is short. The _fourth glume_ is coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, nearly as long as the second glume, awned at the apex, paleate, with three stamens and an ovary; the _palea_ is as long as the glume, elliptic oblong, obtuse. _Lodicules_ are small, cuneate. [Illustration: Fig. 108.--Axonopus cimicinus. 1. A portion of the spike showing spikelets; 2, 3, 4 and 5. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively; 4a and 5a. the palea of the third and the fourth glume, respectively; 6. lodicules, stamens and the ovary.] This is a common grass growing in the plains and lower hills in waste places. _Distribution._--Occurs all over India. 8. Setaria, _Beauv._