Japan Flora: Culms 20-40 cm. long, glabrous, from a long-creeping base; leaf-blades soft, linear, 5-10 cm. long, 3-7 mm. wide, glabrous, pale green; ligules hyaline, truncate, minutely lacerate on mar­gin, 2-3 mm. long, glabrous; sheaths smooth, long-ciliate; racemes 2, geminate, ascending, at length spreading, 3-6 cm. long; rachis 1.5-2 mm. wide, flat; spikelet nearly sessile, pale green, obovate-oblong, acute, about 3 mm. long, loosely puberulent; first glume wanting, the second as long as the spikelet, 4(-6)-nerved, membranous; sterile lemma simulating the glumes, 3 (-5)-nerved, acute, the fertile lemma nearly as long, rather coriaceous, pale, acute and with few minute hairs at apex. July-Sept. Wet places near seashores.

Honshu (Kinki Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Tropical re­gions of Asia and America.