Japan Flora: An­nual; culms erect or decumbent, branched at base, 30-60 cm. long; leaf-blades rather flat, 20-30 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, glaucous-green; ligules hyaline, 3-4 mm. long, denticulate, smooth, glabrous; panicles 15-25 cm. long, narrowly ovate, rather dense, pale green, sometimes lead-gray, rarely dull red, the branches 5-10 cm. long, numerous, nearly simple; pedicels short, appressed to the branch; spikelets lanceolate, 7-10 mm. long, densely 8- to 14-flowered; glumes unequal, broadly lan­ceolate, acuminate, the lower about 2 mm., the upper 3-3.5 mm. long; lemmas narrowly oblong, minutely appresscd- puberulent on the margin below the middle, the midrib ex­current into an awn 1-2 mm. long; anthers elliptic, about 0.3 mm. long; caryopsis lanceolate, biconvex, about 2 mm. long. Near seashores.

Honshu (Ise, Totomi, and Kazusa Prov.), Kyushu (Chikuzen Prov.); rare.—Formosa, China, Malaysia, India, Australia, and Africa.