Botanical Name - Chionache koenigii

----- Chionache Koenigii, Thw. ( Polytoca barbata stapf ) F.B.I. V. 7. P. 102. Vern, Kashay guddi, Boch-choo, Kashay guddi ( Tel. )

----- A tall grass reaching sometimes 6 ft. height. Culms erect, trete, smooth, hairy on the nodes ; leaves up to 3 ft. long, 0.2 to 0.6 in. wide. Spathes chafy, at first plicate, soon opening out, 1/2 to 1 inch long an arista 0.2 to 1/2 in. long ; racemes umbelled; female solitary ; male spikelet usually few ; wings of lower glumes more or less puberulous, ciliate.

----- In most places adjoining big tanks. Pakhal lake. Not a good fodder. Nuts sometimes used as rosary beads.