Myriostachya wightiana (nees ex Steud.) Hook. f.  Gregarious perennial grass  Culms 2-3 m tall, denselt tufted froma sheathing root-stock with long, flexible branching fibrous roots.  Leaves linear, smooth, acuminate.  Spikelets pedicellate, 6-12-flowered, racemose on short branchlets of a narrowed panicle.  Glumes 1 & 2 unequal, 1-nerved, keeled with a long awn  Lodicules minute, retuse  Stamens 3  Grain obliquely ovoid with a large scutellum