398 CLxxiil. GRAMlNE^. {BamhuseOiy Gamble,) 



4-5 in,, margins recurved ; ligule narrow, glabrous, ciliute. Leaves 3-6 by ^-i m-, 

 glabrous or ydiing puberulous, tips short twisted, costa narrow, nerves 3-5 pairt; 

 sheath white pubescent and ciliate, truncate, callus glabrous; ligule short, ciliate. 

 Fanicle graceful, pale; branchlets many, thin, bearing bracteate clusters of few 

 fertile spikelets mixed with sterile ; bracts cymb]form, gkbrous, tip truncate ; raclus 

 fine, wiry, curved, smooth, clavate. Spikelets whitish. Palea of upper fl. P* 

 longer thim the gl., not keeled, concave, striate, glabrous, 2-mucronate, narrowed 

 into a beak. Lodicules 0. Ovary at first ovoid, then depressed, flattened; style 

 glabrous. 



136. GIGANTOCKZ.OA, Kurz. 



Arborescent or scandent. Stems nnbranched below, Stem-sneatfis 

 usually stiff, hairy above, auricled. Leaves long. Panicle compocna, 

 branclies long spiciform, bearing heada of few usually fertile and sterile 

 spikelets. Empty gls, 2-3; fl. gls. similar. Falea of all the fl. 2-keeledi 

 keels ciliate. Lodicules 1-3 or 0. Stamens 6, filaments connate into a 

 ahbrt thick at length elongate membranous tube. Ovary hairy, stigmas 

 1-3 hairy. Grain usually oblong or linear and furrowed, pericarp 

 membranous. Species about 11, chiefly Malayan. . 



'• Spikelets oblong or ovoid, rounded, or flattened in G, Scorlechinn. 



1. 6. verticillata, Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvi. (1868) 124; 

 spikelets 2-4-fld, yVto i^^- ovate subacute glabrous, empty gls. ^'^ 

 broadly ovate ciliolate, flg. gls. 3-4 similar many-nerved mucronate- 

 Gamh/e JBamh. Brit Ind, 61, t. 52. G. maxima, Kurz in Tidschr^ed. 

 Ind. xxyii. (1864) 226, Ind. Forester, i. 343. Barnbusa verticillata, Wim- 

 Sp. PL ii. 245. B. pseudarnndinacea, Steud. Syn. Gram. 330. 



Malay Peninsula, wild and cultivated.— Disxeib. Malay Archipelago. 

 Stems tufted, 80-100 ft., 4-5 in. diain., young striped yellow, mealy and wiui 

 appressed browu deciduous bristles ; old gray-^reeb ; nodes hairy, not prominent , 

 internodes 18 in., walls rather tVin. Stem-sheafhs 12 in. long, as broad or broa|ie^ 

 rounded to the month with rounded ciliate auricles, clothed without with g^oiat 

 brown hairs, glabrous and shining within ; blade short, recurved, ovate, acnmmac^ 

 narrowly decurrent ; ligule narrow. Leaves 10-15 by l§-2i. base ^^^^1""^^^^^ 

 setaceous twisted scabrid, young hairy beneath, nerves 8-12 ; sheath truncate, you b 



hairy, callus narrow, auricle short glabrous; ligule minute. UacMs and ^^an 



lets glabrous, smooth, slender. Palea of flg. gl. shorter than the gl. ^9,"^ .^o. 



2.mucronate, 3-5.nerved, ciliate on and between the keels. Lodicules variao . 



Anthers yellow. Ovary suborbicular, very hairy ; style pubescent, stignias>-i>- 



2. G. Scortechlnii, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Lnd. 62, t. 53 ; spitelets 

 tnmorplious larger fertile, medium rigid, small sterile, fertile ^V}^^. 

 T^7-T^5 in. ovate acute flattened densely clothed with silvery grey nd>i > 

 empty gls. 2-3 ovate mucronate, fl. gls. longer. 



Malay Peninsula, Scortechini, &c.. alt. 400-600 ft. ,. g^,. 



Qretrarious. formiiKr fnipflfs Siifi/ms dO-RO f> /L_ft in. diam. Leaves n 



lanceol 

 twisted 



gu! 



pubescent, callus pubescent; auricle small, rounded, fringed with ^^/^"^^i ^Is of 

 short, hairy. Panicle compound, of curved spicifcrm branchlets ^^^^l^^.'T^fprile, 

 distichous heads 1-2 in. apart. Spikelets 2-5 fertile in each head mixed witn st^^^^ 

 rachis pubescent ; uppermost flg. gl. convolute; palea shorter than the gl.i «■ ^^ 



