t02 OLXxiii. GRAMiNEiE. {BcimluiecB, Gamble.) [Oxytenanthera. 



Malaya ; Sunjei Ulong. Johoee, Ridley (var. with glabrous spikelets). 



Leaves 10-12 by li-li in., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base rounded or sub- 

 cordate, petiole broad hairy, tip setaceous scabrid twisted scaberulous above,^ midnb 

 faint, nerves 10-12 pair ; sheath glabrous or puberulous, keeled, striate, ending in a 

 narrow ciliate callus ; ligulo rather short, thickly pubesceut. Panicle \yith sleader 

 Binuous branches, internodes \~1\ in. Ooary broadly ovoid, style hairy, stigmi 



plumose. 



4. O. parvifolia, Brandis ex Gamble Bamh, Brit, Ind. 72, t. 63; 

 leaves 3-5 by \ in. linear-lanceolate puberulous beneath, spikelets narrow 

 §-f in. 4-10 in a whorl with polished bracts, rachis slender wiry, g'?- 

 eciliate fertile and sterile mixed, empty gls. 2-3 ovate rancroaate crlabroa^S 

 fl. gJs. similar but longer usually 2 fertile and 1 imperfect, palea 2-3-uer7e 

 between the shortly ciliate keels, anthers short obtuse. 



BCEMA ; in the Yonzalin Valley, Brandis, . 



Stems up to 3 in. diam. Stem-sheaths 8-9 by 8-10 in., strigose with brown 



first hairy, ending in a prominent callus bristly at the top. Panicle of long S***^^^!^ 

 branches, with internodes 1-2 in. Spikelets glabrous; einpcy gls. striate town 

 the tip. Ovary hairy, style long slender, stigmas 1-2 plumose, 



** Heads of many spikelets. — South Indian species. 



5. O. Thwaitesii, Munro in Tram. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 1-;^' 

 stem reed-like straggling, leaves up to 8-12 by 1-1^^ in., spik^l?*^^ ^^ ' 

 in dense heads with ovate bracts acate pale usually 1-fld., rachis ^^^ ' 

 gls. with more or less ciliate margins, empty gls. 2-3 ovate mucro ^^ 

 many-nerved, flg. gl. ovate acute cuspidate pubescent above, P^^^* |^j . 



volute, anthftr-t.ill^ Inner ha Ivxr afirrmaa ^ 'RprJilmUP PZ. Svlv* t. CCCXXl m 



Man 



73, t. 64. Dendrocalamus monadelphus, Thwaites Enum, PI- ^^P 



Ceylon, alt. 4-6000 



bra 

 12- 

 3-4 

 ha 



decurre 



ligule of old sheaths long-fimbrJate, of young narrow erose. Leaves ''^^^^ ^]. 

 setaceous tips, sparsely hairy benoath, midrib narrow yellow, nerves 4r-& P|^ 'Jj^,^.^, 

 lucid elands fftw • chpotli nff.^n i.;^^-,f^ u.w.i,.^ ,..,ii.,^ fr»nni!p(? vouns? ^^*^'* ,. „ 



monoBtigrma 



Man. p. ccsxxH;. ^°f 



Ic. Blind, Or. i. 56, t. 234; stem solid velvety-toraentose P^^^./f^.tile 

 leaves 6-8 by 1 \ m, linear-lanceolate, spikelets f-l in. in globose heads ^^^^ 

 and sterile spinescent, glabrous, empty gl^. nmcronate 2-3 ^^^^; ^^ate 

 ovate upper ovate-lanceolate, flg. long linear-lanceolate I^,^""f ^^hair/ 

 convolute, palea concave not keeled obtuse, anthers tipped witn ^ ^^ucheyi' 



bristle, stigma 1. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 74, t. 65. Biicabusa 



