Bamhusa.] clxxiii. gramine^. (Bamdusece, Gamble.) 391 



■:":" f\i 



J ^i / r ^- g^ancescens, Sieh. Gat. fid. Munro. B. sterilis, Kurz in Miq. 



]S' foo A^ ??^^- "• ^^^- ^- viridi-glaucescens, Carr. in Bev. Eortic. 

 ftl ^o^' "^^"^Q^^inana glancesceas, Beauv. Agrost. 144; Nees Agrost. 

 «^. 5^; Kunth Enum. PL i. 426; Rupr. Bamb. 23, t. i. p. 3; 8teud. 

 ^J/«. (rram 334; JLfiy. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 413 ; Munro I.e. 22. IschurocWoa 



Miq. PI. Jungh. 390 ; FL Ind. 

 in Ges. Naturf. Fr. BerL Mag 



Roeni 



Bat. iii. 422. Ludolfia 

 ii. (1808) 320. Pani- 

 Triglossum arandinaceum, Fisch. 



£.^''n^^ Peninsula; Pahang, alt. 7000 ft., Wray (wild?). Cult^vafed in 



Native ot* China and Japan, 



green then yellow, branched 



^l? ^l^A ^^^2) «°^ "^ "^^«y P^^ts of India.-Nati 



fbmflK^^^^^-*--^^"- diam., densely tufted, hard, 



broad fT^'i "*^^®^ tliickened ; internodcs 8-15 in. Stem-sheaths 4-6 by 2-3 in. 



^wtirrent ^{f ^^^"*» narrowed upwards, top rounded ; bl^de 2-3 in., acnniinatc, 



entirp J ^^ sheath, ciliate, appressed-hairy or glabrous above ; ligule 



/f«. Leaves 2-4 bv l m.. H;afJ/»»,/M-.c ¥\rs o,,Knlnf^ fi^wf^rl tlAf. fpasf^Ua 



narrow 



Grain elliptic, furrowed, shortly beaked, top hairy. 



Spikelets ovate-lanceolate in dense heads, flattened, 



leavpi^" ?' **'cpoa, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 196 ; stem-sheaths dimorphic, 

 bractLt ^?."^*°''®°^*^« base rounded, sheath hairy, heads of spikelets 

 Berved fl' ^P^^^^^^ \-\ in. or more, empty gls. 0-2 ovate acute many- 

 *cute W i 1 ■ ^^ ^'^^^^r margins ciliate, palea as long as the gl. ovate 

 broaill/^^ .;°°o-''^^i^te, anthers glabrous connective produced, ovary 

 hrSi ^°]^-^ ^'"'^0 ^*« Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1 868) 100 ; Brandis 

 ^ni^ iiZ^r ?.'^''^- 567; Gamble Bamb. BriLlnd. 42, t. 39. B. capensis 



m' n, ^^' *• 13, f. 54 ; Steud. Svn. Gram. 330. B. Vasaria, Ham. 

 Calcutta's ^' ^^^^- Dendrocalamus Balcooa, Voigt Sort. Suburb. 



^km^-n ^'^Tl ^^'^ Gogra, eastwd. to Bkhar and AsSAM. 

 '^'Si^a&l^ ■ "•' ^-^ '»• diani., coespitose, branched from the base, lower branches 

 '•ollen rZ ' ^"^^'■"ofJes 8-18 in. with u whitish ring below and a hairy one above the 

 '^P ronnrf^^^' T?"^ ^^'''^- Siem-sheaths of two forms ; lower short, broad, ciliate, 

 ^^U bv Ti'n -^^ short triangular decurrent into short fringed auricles ; upper 

 bair, alx)TP ""•' ®^"°«'= glabrous, ciliate, truncate, blade 6-8 by 3-4 in., closely 

 ••'"^1 tontl,^'""'"^'"* recurved, base rounded and decurrent as a narrow band; ligule 

 •«»brid m? • ^''^^^^ 6-12 by 1-2 in., pellucidly tessellate with glands, tip twisted 

 ••^ve win, ^^'"' scabrous-ciliate, nerves 7-11 ; slieath appressed, hairy, truncate 

 ^"•^^e com "'"■?'^ ^"""i^. bristly or not ; ligule broadly triangukr, membranous. 

 ^iculJy"''''^' "^t'l'i* pubescent or scurfy, swollen above ; palea obscnrely nerved, 

 long. ■"' °vate or obovate, fimbriate. Anthers glabrous, pointed. Stifftnas J, 



fiatte'neVfl ^^^orescent or shrubby. Stems not spinous. Spikelets 



' ^g. gls. few or many. Lodicules 2-3. 



abairy'rf: J^LGARis, Sclirad. in WendL Collect, ii. 26, t. 47; nodes with 

 «W lf}l^^^^ linear-lanceolate petioled glabrous tessellate by pellucid 

 !S'telei8 ,'"';^ }^^^y hairy, callus smooth, auricle cihate hgnle short 

 !^8. t-2^?~A'''- ^^ bracteate clusters of 8-10 oblong acute bifid, empty 

 ■^ long Z^^X ^^^^« many-nerved tip ciliate, flg. gls- 6-10 larger, palea 

 ^"T'VovL " ^^' ^*^«1« white-ciliate, anthers obtuse hairy ap.culate 

 ' °^ary narrow hairy, style long. Both Nov. Sp. 198 {excL Syn. 



