Kangaroo Grass

Themeda quadrivalvis (I^.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 794. 1891
Andropogon nutans L. Mant. 303. 1771. Not ^. nutans 1,, 1753. Andropogon quadrivalvis ,. Syst. Veg. ed. 13. 758. 1774. Anthisiiria ciliata I^. f. Suppl. 113. 1781. Themeda ciliata Hack, in DC. Monog. Phan. 6 : 664. 1889.
Annual. Stems up to 1 m. or more tall; leaf-sheaths glabrous; blades up to 3 dm. long, flat, linear, 4-6 mm. wide, glabrous; panicle usually composing more than one half of the stem ; spathes long-attenuate at the apex from a lanceolate base ; involucral spikelets 5-7 mm. long, the first scale papillose-ciliate on the keels with long stiff hairs; pedicellate spikelets lanceolate; sessile spikelets 5-6 mm. long, including the obtuse callus which is about 1 mm. long and densely barbed with brown hairs, the first scale hispid at the summit, the fourth scale with an awn 3-5 cm. long.
Type locality : India.
Distribution : Introduced into Martinique and Barbados ; native of the Hast Indies.