Dimchloa.'] clxxiii. gr.\mine-5:. {Bambusece, Gamble.) 415 



^ra vii. (1824) 291. Nastus Tjangkorreh, Schultes Syst Veg. vii. 1358 ; 

 JiunthEnum. PL i. 430; Steud, Sm. Gram. 333. Chusquea amplo- 

 paniculata, Steud. Ic, 337 ; Miq. I c. 415. 



Mauy Peninsula.; Perak, Ridley.— Dx^iKm. Malay and Molucca Islds. 



nft !r^ ^*'' ^^ "^ ^°' diam. or more, green, glossy, nodes swollen, of the branches 

 ofteu thorny ; internodes 9-18 in., hairy above, walls thin. Stem-sheaths loose, 

 leathery. Pvi;Tiri^;^ «„ j j.^ A. / _ . , ■. .t , , . ., .. .' 



r sort, base narrowed, petiole very hniry, smooth on both surfaces, miil-rib 

 nspicuous, nerves 7-9 pairs; sheaths strigose at length glabrous, mouth rounded 

 ^ long white bristles; ligale rather broad, long-ciliate. Panicle compound, 

 Defies thin, wiry; rachis carved, striate, flattened on one side; nodes with a 

 ^g termed by the base of the fallen bracts ; clusters with few fertile and many 

 vith^ 9* Spikelets ^\j in, or less, ovoid, glossy, brown, glabrous; empty gls. 

 : , ./' smaller at the baa^?, convolute, 5-7-nerved ; flg. gl. similar. Stamens 



ended, anthers acute. Stigma 2.fid, not plumose. Grain -^Vi i^-* ^^^shy. 

 2 in ^^'V^^^^^^^^'<^, Gamble 1. c. t. 9S ; spikelets straw coh-d., leaves up to 12 by 

 . softly ovate-hmceolate, mouth of sheaths more ciliate, lignle more fimbriate. 

 . * anuamanica Kurz in Jour?i, A.s\ Soc. Beng. xlii. (1873) ii. 253, For. Fl Barm. 

 • o/a— Andaman and Nicobar Islds., SiebeVy Kurz, &c. 



M 



Jiouth, leaves 6-18 by 1-4 in. Gamble JSamb. Brit Ind. 113, t. 99. 

 'imbu.sa M'Clellandi, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. (1868) 114. 



CHiTrAGONG, Pegu and Martaban, Kurz, &c. 



nodes'"" ,, ""'^'"2. 100 ft., or short and straggling, 1-2 in. diara., grey green, 

 baira o°"''"5 'Wternodes 6-8 in., young often iingled, strigose with bro»vn pungent 

 letthp ^'^"'■*''««<'^s 6-9 ill. by 7-9 in. at the base and 2-3 iit the top, cyliiidric, 

 a, f^' «t"g08e witli golden. brown hairs ending in a narrow (lurk glabrous 

 WtL a, *°P ' '^'"'^^ InuceoLite, ghibrous without, densely hairy within, 

 oblnn„ I 'Jecnrreut ou the sheatli ; ligale entire or subserratrf. Leaves broadly 



Ion„ 6''^"«eoIate, base unequally rounded, narrowed into a broad thick petiole ^ in. 

 mid rib ' .^''^^'■'^'is "n both surfaces, one or both m.irgins retrorsely scabnd. 



mid-rib 



«tri2o^^'°'"'"^"''' nerves 10-18 pairs; sheath transversely nerved, keeled, at first 

 6 ^, mouth produced into a louuded naked auricle ; ligule entire or serrate. 



SCKZZOSTACKTUM 



,UaIT^ 0- climbing, arborescent or shrubby Bamboos ; stems nsuallv 

 lLl/',"°°°^^' ^^^"s thin. Siem-skeaths short, cylindnc, auricles small. 

 hS! r^^; P(^tu,hd. Panicle terminal, of spicate branches hearing 

 Cklllf T^'^'^^> often reduced to a spike of heads, rachis slender. 

 £t]t '^'"^^'•' fascicled, pPduncled or 2-3-uate ; empty gl^. 1-3, narrow, 

 arnd7 "'^"""^"^te, rachilk elongate b 'tween them and much b.yond with 

 gl. "elT'J^r^yl- H.pb. 1-2, Irticnlate below, convolute; pale, like its 

 anih' J"^'^*^' ""t Reeled. Lodicules 0-4, narrow. Stamens 6. exserted, 

 tolnEv"^r«^' filaments free. Ovarij narrow, pericarp praluced as a 

 beafeT ^^^ enclosing the style, sti^'m^s 3 short plumose Gmi;. ovoid, 

 trop1;.''«^k inclined", pericarp crustaceoas; seed rounded. -Species lO, 

 P- Asia and Pacific. 



■ffearfs of spikelets in terminal simple spikes. 



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