The _sessile_ as well as the _pedicelled spikelets_ have four _glumes_. The _sessile spikelets_ are 1/8 to 1/5 inch long. The _first glume_ is spreading or erect, chartaceous, many-nerved, two-toothed at the apex and with narrow hyaline margins from about the middle to the apex. The _second glume_ is compressed, dorsally gibbous, keeled, 7-nerved. The _third glume_ is hyaline, oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved, paleate with three stamens; _palea_ is narrow. The _fourth glume_ is shorter than the third, deeply 2-fid and awned in the cleft, bisexual or female, 3- to 5-nerved below the cleft, the lateral nerves arching and meeting the mid-nerve just at the cleft, with a small ovate palea. There are two _lodicules_. The _pedicelled spikelets_ are dorsally compressed. The _first glume_ is lanceolate, oblong, subacute, many-nerved, coriaceous and glabrous. The _second glume_ is as long as the first, many-nerved, lanceolate-oblong, coriaceous and glabrous. The _third glume_ is hyaline, shorter than the second, 3-nerved, paleate and with three stamens. The _fourth glume_ is shorter than or equal to the third, hyaline, 1-nerved rarely with two short lateral nerves, female or imperfect. _Lodicules_ are two. A very common grass occurring in the plains and lower hills, all over the Presidency and grows well in all kinds of soil. _Distribution._--All over India. [Illustration: Fig. 143.--Apluda varia. 1, 2, 3 and 4. The first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the sessile spikelet; 3a and 4a. are the palea of the third and the fourth glume, respectively; 5. stamens, ovary and lodicules; 6, 7, 8 and 10. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the pedicelled spikelet; 9 and 11. palea of the third and the fourth glumes.] 25. Rottboellia, _Linn. f._