Several hundred seedlings were obtained after pollination of four sugar-cane clones byMiscanthidium violaceum. Morphologically these seedlings closely resemble sugar-cane, but an awned fertile lemma, not normally present in P.O.J. 2725, was found in most of its hybrids. Some of the seedlings flowered during March and April, several months after the end of the sugar-cane flowering season. The hybrids themselves are unlikely to be of commercial value, but may prove of use in further breeding work.