392 CLXXiii. GRAMiXE^. {Bamhusece, Gamble.) [Bamlusa, 



4- 



Gib 



Munro in Tram. TAnn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 106; Beddome J^ L bytv., j^oresz. 

 Man. p. ccxxxii. ; Brandis For. Flor, 568; Kurz For, Fl. BAt. Pnrin.\u 

 551, Ind. Forester, i. 339 ; Miq. FL hid. Bat. iii 417 ; Griseh. Fl Bnt. W. 

 Jnd, 528; Bivihe, Les Bamhous, 191, L 18, 19; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. BL\\^^^ 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit hid. 44, t. 40. B. arundinacea, Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. II. 

 316; Moon Cat. Ceyl, PI. 26 {non Willd). B. humilis, Relrhb. fid. Rupr. 

 I c. 50. B. Sieberi, Griseb. Z. c. 5. B. striata, Lodd ex Mmiro I. c. 121; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6079. B, .^urinamensis, Eupr. I. c. 49, t. 11, f. 49 ; Steud, I. c. 

 329. B. ThouQ^rsii, £untJi in Journ. de ritys. (1822) 148; Bev.Gram\. 

 323, t. 73, 74, Enum. PI. i. 431, Suppl. 356 ; Bupr. Bamb. 48, t. H, /■ ^J 

 Steud. I. c. 329 ; Nees in Linnsea, 466 ; Tliwaites Enum. FL Ceyl. 61i>. 

 Nastus Thouarsii, Spreng. Syst. ii. 113. 



Cultivated throughout tropical India and in all hot countries. (Wild in Java, 

 Kurz). , , 



Stems 20-50 ft., by 2-4 in. diam., rather distant, green yellow or stnpea, 

 polished; nodes hardly raised, with usually a ring of brown hairs; infcerntKles 

 10-18 in., walls rather thin. Stem - slie atlxs Q-10 in. by 7-9 in. broad, often streaKea 

 with yellow, thickly hairy above, top rounded retuse ; blade 2-6 by 4 in., y^PJ"^^*-!^ 

 hairy on both surfaces, base rounded decurrent with rounded falcate "'", 1\ 

 auricles ; ligule broad, toothed or fimbriate. Leaves 6-10 by §-lf in-, pale, petioiea, 

 tip twisted scabrid, nerves 6-8 ; sheath loosely hairy, callus ciliate, auricle rounOea, 

 lignle short, ciliate. Panicle large, leafy, clusters of spikelets largest at the nodes, 

 rachis scurfy. Lodicules 3, winged, ciliate. 



11. B. Oliveriana, Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 130, t. 116; sterna 

 coespitose, leaves small linear thin, auricles unequal, panicle of *i^*^^P|^.° 

 unilateral spikes with distant bracteate clusters of 1-3 flattened spikelets 

 about \ in. long, empty gls. 1-2 ovate-lanceolate, flg. gls. ^-4 9-nervea, 

 rachillalong flattened, palea as long as the gl. acute tip peniciUate^ Keeis 

 glabrous, anthers obtuse, ovary elongate ovoid, style short, stigmas w. 



Upper Burma, Oliver, Rogers. u K r 



Stems graceful, 40-45 ft., 1-2 in. diam. ; flossy green, branching from the bas^ 

 internodes about 14 in. Stem^^Jieaths thin, pale, 8-10 in. by 4 5 broad, n^'*^^^^^ 

 upwards to a mouth 2-3 in. broad, glabrous; blade 4-8 in., <^"*^"?"' / 

 lanceolate, cordate, sparsely hairy on both surfaces ; auricles uneciual long ^^"^ ' 

 one Tu-i»"- rounded, the other decurrent; ligule ^^ ^"- hvo^^, serrate. ^ . 

 4-7 by J-^ in., petioled, glabrous, nerves 4-5 pair; sheath glabrous, ^»""® ^ ^^^re,l 

 nate; ligule rather long. Brads of infl. truncate, glabrous. Palea ^'"^ .^ 

 between and on either side of the keels. Lodicules 3, rounded, fimbriate, 

 ovoid. Anthers striped red and yellow, then purple. 



Bingrhaml 



leaves linear or linear-lanceolate base rounded tip long twisted ^^^ i jjj' 

 panicle terminal short leafy, spikelets few in scattered fascicles about ^ • 

 long, empty gls. 1-2 striate mucronate, flg. gls. 5-6 ovate acute mucro^.^^^ 

 smooth many-nerved, palea as long as the gl. or longer keels fringe 

 long hairs, anthers obtuse or with an apical hair, ovary elongate, ) 

 hhort. 



Lower Burma; Tenasserim, ZJ/nyAam. , gurfiice«» 



Leaves 3-6 by J-§ in., subsessile or petiole very short, smooth on both ^^ 



nerves 5-6 pairs. Panicle with short rachis; joints sometimes geniculate ci ^^^^ 

 Spikelets with distichous gls., rachilla evident broad clavate flexuous ' ^Vj^y^^ 

 spicuous- Lodicules rounded, long-ciliate. Grain linear-oblong, beak n J' 

 Appears not to difier very greatly from the Chinese B. Jlexuosa, Munro. 



