Straggling annual, resembling Digitaria horizontalis; culms as much as 1.5 m. long; sheaths villous, or the upper ones glabrous; blades flat, lax, 5-20 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, softly pubescent; racemes 2-6, 5-14 cm. long, ascending, racemose on a short axis; rachis angular, scabrous, wingless; spikelets paired, 3 mm. long, one pedicel about 1 mm. long, the other about 3 mm. long; first glume wanting; second glume and sterile lemma equal, acuminate, pointed beyond the fruit, sparsely pubescent on the margins.
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