They are somewhat curiously compressed. Leaves 6" to 1 foot long - 3" wide at base slightly acuminate as apex - Panicles conspicuously involute & rare. Culms Scabrous near the Panicle which is composed of 20 or more erect crowded Spikes. Panicle strawcolor, This + the following Species seem to be allied to Cal. cristata long, as from the Phillipine Islands - as far as can be judged from the very meagre description given - which is excluded from by the genus by Rbth on account of its triristate lance folius - Our 2 Species have quite the habit of Chloris & notwithstanding the armed folious we prefer to append them to it to multiply several.