p 



Oxj/tena7ithera.] clxxiii. gramine^. (BamhusecPj Gamble.) 403 



Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 113. Schizostachyum hindo- 

 stanicam, Kurz in Journ. Beng, As. Soc. xlii. {1873} 11. 252. 



Westkrn Ghats, from the Concan to the Anamalai Hills. 



SUnii lO'lo tt. or more by 1 in, diam., internodes lonpr. Stem-sheaths 6-9 hy 

 3 lu. broad at the base, narrowed from the base up to the 2-lobed tip ; blade in the 

 "Das, 3 iu., linear-lanceolate; ligule long, fimbriate. Leaves variable, shortly 

 petiolt'd, pale green, tip setaceous twisted, base unequal rounded, sparsely hairy 

 wneath, midrib beneath yellow shining, nerves 7-12 ; sheaths striate ; ligule long. 

 i'anicle largp, terminal, rachis smooth, heads of spikelets up to 2i in. diam. Ovary 

 ovoid, acaminate and style glabrous, stiema thickened. Grain narrow, tipped with 

 ttie conic style-base. * » 



7- O. Stocksil, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 130 ; steins 

 1 K l^^ softly pubescent, leaves 4-8 by ^i in., spikelets k i^- in 

 globose heads spinescent glabrous fertile and sterile, empty gls. 2 ovate 

 ttncronate 5-7-nerved, fl. gls. 2 ovate subacute dorsally mucronate, anthers 

 Wort acute, stigma 1. Beddome FL Sylvat, Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiii.; 

 ^«miZe Bamb. Brit. Ind. 75, t. m. 



'Jhe Concan. Stochs, &c. (usually cultivated). 

 ^.^^1^'ii^tii', grey-green, solid, or tube slender, nodes with a softly pubescent 

 UDw .1 "^*^^^ 6-12 in. Sf em-sheaths 6-9 in. by 3-7 at the base, tapering 

 wTi\^° ^ ^^^^^^ t^P' densely brown, strigose, margins ciliate ; blade subulate, 

 Ttnsh n "^^^^ rounded fringed auricle; ligule i in., deeply fimbriate. Leaves 

 ha^ -y Petioled, tip setaceous, base rounded or cuueate, beneath glabrous or 

 Pam/"i^ ^^^ liiirrow, nerves 5-6; sheath striate; ligule rather long, toothed, 

 nodes U9-^''' l*eads 1 in. diam., mixed with chaffy bracts, rachis smooth, inter- 

 plumose *"* ^'^^^^ers short, acute. Ovary and long style hairy, stigma simple, 



con!' **■ ^ourdillonl, Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 76, t. 67 ; stem-sheaths 

 ^,^T'\^ ^®arly glabrous', leaves 6-9 by l-U in., mouth of leaf-sheath 

 :^ 6 Bhmincr na^y^ cr.;^.^^^4... 2 a ;,, j^ globose heads glabrous, rachis 



lany-nerved, fl- gls. 3, mucronate 

 Up mhatt^. and bearing a setaceous 



ftn^u ^^Jiger than the next, rachilla ciliate and 

 '^aothers apiculate, stigmas 3, short. 



S^te^^^^^^^ ; on the Ghats, alt. 3-4000 ft., Bonrdillon. 



2 \^yr}?^ "^^"^^ clumps of straggliuir habit, soft, internod 

 '^/^i often 6 in.. o.inL..». »..r.«^ „ ^..., uL.b h.Uf.lPs he 



6-12 



rtcurv^^^'P.^''^"^«t« 5 blad9'2-3 in., triangul 



*ortlv n!r I V^'"^^ ^*^^^t line the upper edge 



[/ m ^Jmf w mf ^f *^ ■ v ^ 



internodes long. Stem-sheaths 



Leaves 

 Use near 



*riat€^^;f ""^•■■'b' «'«ooth ben.ath; mi.irib narrow, nerves 7-8; sheath soft, 

 •l'»ai 'r.lT\ ^"""' ^^-''-J-'^te. Panicle Uir-e spikelets in globose beads 1^2 in. 

 eiliat: «■ , '''^"^'"•- -Pa^--^ of lower fls. 3-norved between the cili.te keels, racb.lbi 

 tipped wi, ^, ^^^'-'ninnHmperfect gl. Ovar^j -Ami style hairy. Gram liuear-oblong. 



ui the thickened style-base. 



138. DENDROCAIiAMVS, Nees. 



ieatt'ff * unarmed Bamboos, with densely branching rootf^tocks. 

 ^fMlT\ Petioled. transverse nervules represented by pellucid glands. 

 OTate 2 fi^ ,^'^'^«^« clusters on the long branches of a compound panicle, 

 ^eotv •'/°'P*y ^^^- 2-3. ovate, acute, many-nerved; % g'^- ^'f « 

 ^St'(^ P'^'^ °^ lo^^«^- fl«- keeled, of upper dorsally rounded eciliate 

 ^« or rare. Stamens 6, filaments free. Ovarif hairy above, otter, 



