The _inflorescence_ consists of a solitary terminal or axillary _raceme_ 1 to 2 inches long; joints are shorter than the spikelets, excavate on one side and with a pore which is hidden by the sessile spikelet. The _sessile spikelet_ consists of _four glumes_. The _first glume_ is somewhat fiddle-shaped, dilated above the middle into an orbicular wing, and towards the base into two auricles joined by a transverse ridge, scaberulous, 5-nerved. The _second glume_ is somewhat membranous, ovate, acute and 3-nerved. The _third glume_ is hyaline, thin, oblong, obtuse and nerveless. The _fourth glume_ is lanceolate, nerveless and without a palea, bisexual. There are two cuneate _lodicules_. The _pedicelled spikelets_ also have four glumes and the pedicels usually free, but also sometimes adnate. The _first glume_ is oblong, obtuse, winged on one side only, 5-nerved. The _second glume_ is boat-shaped, chartaceous, 3-nerved crested with a semi-circular wing at the apex. The _third glume_ is hyaline, broadly oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved with a lanceolate hyaline palea. The _fourth glume_ is oblong, obtuse, male. [Illustration: Fig. 144.--Rottboellia Myurus.] 1. A portion of the raceme showing front view; 2. a portion of the raceme showing the back view; 3. a sessile and a pedicelled spikelet showing the front side; 4. the same showing the back side; 5, 6, 7 and 8. the first, second, third and the fourth glume of the sessile spikelet, respectively; 9 ovary and lodicules; 10, 11, 12 and 14. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the pedicelled spikelet; 13 and 15. palea of the third and fourth glumes of the sessile spikelet. This is very common in dry somewhat sandy places in the East Coast districts. _Distribution._--Common in Deccan peninsula. =Rottboellia exaltata, _L.f._= This grass is usually annual and rarely perennial. Stems are stout, erect, hispid, branching from the base, varying in height from 3 to 10 feet. The _leaf-sheaths_ are loose, hispid with tubercle-based hairs, or glabrous, with mouth contracted. The _ligule_ is short and ciliate. The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, setaceously-acuminate with a stout midrib prominent beneath, hispid or scabrid above, smooth or sometimes scaberulous and glaucous beneath, spinulosely scabrid at the margin, 5 to 24 inches by 1/4 to 1 inch. [Illustration: Fig. 145.--Rottboellia exaltata. 1 and 2. A portion of the spike, back and front view; 3, 4, 5 and 7. the first, second, third and the fourth glume, respectively, of the sessile spikelet; 6 and 8. palea of the third and the fourth glumes of the sessile spikelet; 9. ovary; 10, 11, 12 and 14. the first, second, third and the fourth glume of the pedicelled spikelet; 13 and 15. palea of the third and the fourth glume of the pedicelled spikelet.]