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394 CLxxiii. GRAMiNE^E. (Bamhuseoj, Gamble.) [Bamhm* 



South Andaman Islds., Kurz, . - 



Sterns tufted, 20-30 ft. by 3-4 in. Jiam., green, glossy, nodes not thickened; 

 internodes li-2 ft., walls thin ; branches 1-4 from each node, leafy below, flowering 

 above. Leaves 4-7 by J-1^ in., tip twisted scabrous, glabrous and pale beneath, 

 nerves 5-6. Brads of hi^., narrow, truncate or acuminate, smooth, rachis pubescent, 

 joints about 1 in. Palea membranous, acuminate, dorsally 3-nerved, Lodicnlesn 

 present lanceolate, ciliate. Anthers purple, cells unequal. Ovarj/ narrowed intotne 

 style. Grain obliquely oblong, smooth, beak, long stiff.— Stem-sheaths not known. 

 Ketnarkable for the narrow membranous acuminate palea. 



Sect. V. Snbscandent, not spinous. Si^iJcelets cylindric, fl. gl. solitary. 



16. B. Griffithiana, Munro in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 99; 

 leaves large lanceolate glaucous beneath base unequal cuneate t^sse^' 

 la'e by pellucid ejlands, sbeath glabrous keeled callus narrow, auriclesjalcate 

 reflexed strongly bristly, lignle elongate ciliate, spikelets about 2 in. 1^ 

 distant heads on a hollow soft rachis ovate-lanceolate acute, empty gls. ^ 

 ovate acute many-nerved, fig. gl. larger mucronate, pnlea membrauous 

 acute keels glabrous, anthers obtuse tip 2-fid, ovary ovoid glabrous. 

 Gamble Bamh. Brit Lnd. 49, t. 45. Dendrocalamus Griffithianus, hurz 

 For, FL Brit. Burm. ii. 562. — Bambusa, Griff, Journ. 90. 



Uppkh Burma ; banks of Moganng River, Griffith. . .1 



Stem& soft, slender, hollow. Leaves 1-lJ by 2-3 in., tip subulate, twiscai, 

 scabrid, nerves 13-17, petiole | in., stout ; auricles of sheath up to | iu., bristles long , 

 ligule obtuse or triangular, often cleft. Panicle terminal, of spiciforra d""**^^" 

 bearing heads at intervals of 1-4 in. Spilcelets cylindric; flg. gl. convolute; ^^^!^^^^ 

 glabrous, clavate, much shorter than its imperfect terminal gl. ; palea "l^^y'^^^t^-jr* 

 Lodicules 3, long-fimbriatc, one much smaller. Sfj/le very short, stigmas 10 hf 



plumose. 



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17. B. Wrayl 



Hooh 



2253 ; stems decurved, leaves linear-lanceolate narrowly acuminate, aur 

 of sheath small, ligule short truncate bristles long, panicle large le J. 

 spikelets in short bracteate spikes, within each bract is a keeled ">^^^^^ ij 

 then 2 imperfect spikelets in the axils of lanceolate glabrous gls. e 

 subtended by a 2-keeled ciliate scale, fertile spikelet with ovate-lanceow ^ 

 acute many-nerved, gls. keels of palea rough or faintly-ciliate, ^^^^^^^ 

 glabrous, ovary ovoid glabrous. Gamble Bamb. Brit. lnd. 50, t. 46. 



Malay PENI^•suLA; Perak, alt. 4500-5500 ft., Wray, vpIIow, 



Stems 40-60 ft., 1 in. diam., semiscandent, tips decurved to the ^^^""i': J , jn., 

 glabrous, shining, 3rd or 4th lower internodes up to 7 ft. Leaves ^^^ h^^^^\ 

 glabrous, petiole short narrow, nerves 7-8 ; sheath pale, glabrous, callus ^ o^^ 

 hairs of ligule up to \ in. Panicle large, leafy, clusters of spikelets at tjip n ^^ .^ 

 in spicifbi in branches, rachis smooth. Empty gl. convolute, rachiUa as long ^ 

 imperfect terminal gl. Lodicules narrow, minutely ciliate. Ovary narrowea 

 very short st^le, stigmas long, plumose. Grain oblong, beak cylindric. 



Sect. VI. Arborescent, spinous. 



. 18. B. Blumeana, Schult. f. Syst. vii. 1343; pt^^.'^^J^g^^briSe^ 



leaves fascicled linear-lanceolate sheath appressed hairy, ^^8^^®. ^pikelets 

 clusters of many imperfect and few perfect spikelets, P^^'^^q y.^erved, 

 1-1^ in. slender compressed, empty gls. 2-3 ovate acute o-i^^ ^^^^^ 

 flg. gl. ovate acuminate 7-8-nerved, palea broad obtuse ^^^.r £fium. 

 ciliate, anthers obtuse, ovary ovoid, style very short. Run 



