Flowers purplish in forked panicle.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
The nest, which is a regular Tailor-bird's, composed entirely of the finest imaginable panicle-stems of flowering grass, is a deep cup placed in between two living leaves, which have been sewn together at the tips and along the margins from the tip for about half their length, so as to provide a perfect pocket in which the nest rests.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
In one nest a good deal more of the fine flower-panicle stems of grasses are intermingled than in the other.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume