long, smooth, from a decumbent or ascending base, branching below, with puberulent nodes; inflorescence scarcely exserted from the sheaths of the upper nodes; leaf-blades flat, soft-her­baceous, spreading, lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, short-acuminate, glabrous, nearly rounded at base, the nerves prominent on upper surface; sheaths short, sparsely short- pubescent near the apex; ligules wanting; panicles short-ex­serted, open, loose, ovate, 15-30 mm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, the branches few, spreading; spikelets 1 to 3 on the branches, usu­ally pale green, about 2.5 mm. long; glumes rather persistent, membranous, glabrous, not keeled, the first ovate, with a nearly rounded summit, about 0.7 mm. long, obsoletely 1- nerved, the second obsoletely 3-nerved, with few short brisdes on upper part of the nerves; lemmas about 2.5 mm. long; stamens 2, the anthers about 0.25 mm. long, elliptic; caryopsis thick-lenticular, ovate, glabrous, lustrous, the hilum indistinct. Aug.-Oct. Wet places.

Honshu, Kyushu; rather rare.