New Genus Inflorescence panicle, panicled ovoid dense spiculae 4 flowered the 2 lower nutlets. The 3rd perfect uppermost rudimentary long pedicelled, glumes hyaline membranaceous, acute. & nerved. Really resembling the florets. Paleae of lower flowers coriaceous below bifid. 3 nerved the central nerved prolonged into a lanceolate point as long as the laciniae. The 2nd Glumes seta as long as the laciniae, the 1st two marginal & splendent into a serrato. The lower half of the back & the white margin serrations pilose. Upper palea delicate, elongated, bifid. Festate flower rudimentarily pedicelled, ovoid compressed smooth & shining on the back, ciliate on the margin 3 nerved. & terminate in 3 densely plumose spreading laciniae as long as the palea - Upper palea truncate is longer than the lower, attenuated & bifid at the looser from the lower, cutaneous & bifid at the apex. smooth except on the veins, involving the laciniae which is free, alternate at the base slightly trifurcate with a scutellum half its length. Squam oblong ? - Stamens ? - Styles 2, elongated - Rudiment nutlet upon a pedicel as long as the festate palea consisting of 3 plumose laciniae. A procumbent grass 4-8' with indented fasciculately branching stems leaves crowded below. The branches terminal & lateral clusters with loose sheaths being 2 or 3 involucral flowers with loose sheaths near the summit - Corollate subulate, rigid. mostly recurved, terminated by a conspicuous mucro