Bamhtsa.] clxxiii. gramine^. {Bamhusecp, Gamble.) ^9b 





• i'X ' Munro in Trans. Unn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 101 ; Kurz Ind. Forester, 

 1. 340; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 50, t. 47, B. spinosa, Blume ex Nees in 

 M. Zeit. (1825) 580. Ischnrochloa spinosa, Biise in Mia. PL Jungh. 389. 

 Bchizostachyum Durie, Rupr. Bamb. 46. 



,,^AI4Y Peninsula ; Pahang, Midley.—Di^iRj^. Malay Islds. 



Hems 30-60 ft. or more, 3-4 in. diam., hard, smooth, glossy, nodes not pro- 

 ™ent, walls thick; branches many, yellowish, copiously armed j spines short 

 m^tK J'^^^''^®^^* 'Stem-sheaths 5-6 by 3-4 in. broad, narrowed to a broad convex 

 »<»*D thick, coriaceous, hispid with stiff tawny bristles, young striped violet-brown 

 aua yell w ; blade nearly as broad as the sheath, triangular, cuspidate, convolute, 

 ?!, es covered with tawny bristles, decurrent as a broad band ending in a rounded 

 b'^te r ^ lulled with long stiff bent bristles ; ligule narrow,toothed, loug-fim- 

 cla -^^^'■'^ 3-6 by ^-^ in., glabrous, base rounded, tip twisted scabrous, 

 gmucous beneath, nerves 5-7 ; sheath appressed hairy, callus recurved ciliate, mouth 

 8Did7 ^" -"^^'^ i ligule truncate, fimbriate. Panicle large, terminal, branches 

 tL-iv^*^' ^^^^^^^^s 3, loDg-ciliate. Oram obovoid, shining above, tipped with 

 tne three stigmas. 



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Unn. Soc. xxvi. (1868)103; Bn 

 xxi.. Forest. Man, d. ccxxxi. ; K^ 



n^,r^ ''\ ' ^y^^' ^' c<^^y^u, J^orest. Man, p. ccxxxi. ; Jinrz ror. -rt. jutc 

 Cat 'J^?.^*' ^'^'^- ^''''^' Pi' ^^yl' ^15; Trim. Cat, Cej/l.PL 110; Wall. 



51 f ^o -^5 DuthieFodd. Grass, N. Ind. 70; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 



^ilf«n.o'z: "'"^^^^^ 



Mnr^j .''^ ^- ""• B. orientalis, Nees I. c. 475 ; Bvpr. I. c. 52, t. 13, f. 51 ; 

 £d Vinn ^^^ ' ^^ddome I. c. p. ccxxxi. B. pungens, Blanco Fl. Fihp. 



..:'■• '•i\j. B. sm'«r.oo 7?„„;, 7717 T.. J v. TOO. 7/>i wi Vm Tmns. Linn. Soc. 



:^'^heede Hort. Malah. ift. 16. 

 (CultivS^"^* V'*' PI»i"s and low hilh 



StenJf ^ " '^"^ lower Himalaya and in the valleys or cue uauK*^" '"'" '""^'-y 

 (-» short oT," ^^'^^'^ rootstock, 80-100 ft. and 6-7 in. diam., graceful and curving 

 *'tliwi? • ''''^^^'^"ched), branched from the base; nodes prominent, lower 

 °ft«n suh °"?°"<'al shoots armed with 2-3. recurved spines ; internodes up to 18 in., 

 ♦W<Ji9^'i '"■> *^« smaller flattened on one side, walls 1-2 in. thick. Stem- 

 H ton rlr J ^y ^-12 in., coriaceous, young on.nge-yellow often striped green or 

 ^^^iJ ^'^^^' ^S^^ plaited, young thickly clothed with golden hairs ; blade 

 •^fk bS'i P ^ * >"•. acuminate, concave, glabrous without, matted within with 

 ''l«te S' n>argi„8 involute, decurrent on the sheath, wavy, long and thickly 

 «P to 8 bv 1 ^ ^^rlcied ; ligule narrow, fentire, or fringed with white hairs Leaves 

 *««th 2it '°- «P sbarp stiff, base rounded ciliate, subtessellate by pellucid glands ; 

 *'^n ^onnT *"■ "'-'■''•^y 80, callus thick ciliate. auricle short. Pamcle enormous 

 "•galar r^!?.^ **»« *hole stem ; rachis usually stiff, shining, sometimes soft and 

 • ^odicules 3, small, fimbriate. Anthers sometimes apiculate.-FIowers 



