416 OLXXiii. GRAMiNEJB. {Bambusece, Gamble.) [Schizostachyum. 



i~^ in. linear-lanceolate, heads 1-3 in a spike bracteate, spikelets few about 

 I in, long, empty gla, 1-2 ovate acute 5-7-nerved, flg. gl., longer. 

 ? S. elegantiasimum, Zwrz J»J. Forester, i. 348. (Bambusa elegantissima, 

 Hassle. PL Jav. Bar. 42. Beesha elegantissima, Kurz ex Munro tn Irans, 

 Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1808) 146). 



Malay Peninsula ; Pahang, Malacca and Johore, Eidle^. 



iS/e7ws graceful, slender, scandent. Leaves narrowed into a rather long petiole, 

 smooth and glabrous on both surfaces, midrib shining, nerves 3-5 pairs, distantly 

 tessellate by glands, sheaths smooth truncate, callus broad ; ligule very narrow. KacAii 

 o/*.9/?ifce* slender, curved; bracts chaffy, mucronate, yellowish. Spikelets mrro t 

 acuuiiuate; palea longer than its gl., 2-keeIed, glabrous, 2-niucronate. Lodicuies 

 ovate, acute, 3-5-nerved. Stamens exserted, anthers linear tips rounded. 



chilianthum 



6-10 



heads 



3-6 in a spike, spikelets about i in. long, empty gls. ovate ^^^f^^^^ 

 striate glabrous, flg. gl. longer. Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 115, t. l • 

 Chloothamnus chilianthus, Buese in Pi. Jungh. 387; Miq. FL J^^. -^^*- 

 iii. 415. Melocanna gracilis, Kurz ex Munro in Trans, Linn, poc xx; 

 (1868) 133.— Bambusa, WalL Cat. n. 5032. 



Stem 6-8 ft. by ^-3 in. diam., smooth, glossy, nodes not prominent; '»"[®^"*^^^^ 

 fistular, glabrous; flowering; and leafing branches together half-whorled ^^ ^"^,°°^^^ 

 with mnny bract-like sheaths; branchlets slender, curved, smooth. Stems ea » 

 glabrous, smooth, truncate, margins ciliate ; blade narrowly lanceolate, .^^^^.^*^^° yj^ 

 hairy, decurrent in a long fringed band, auricles narrow long-fringe"'* * J?^ 

 narrow long-fringed. Leaves long acuminate, setaceous point ^^'"^^""^^i ?-L*/ 

 midrib not promiueut, nerves 4-6 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands ; sheath Sy^Vj^g 

 mouth truncate bearing about 10 stiff white deciduous bristles, auricles short, t-^^^ 

 narrow. Heads about ^ in. broad, rachis slender, grooved, glabrous. ^J°*.,. ^^ 

 acuminate. Palece 2, mucronate, keeled above only. LodicuUs 3, 3-5-nerve(l, c 

 Ovary oblong, stigmas 3 plumose purple. Grain nearly J in., beak inclined. 



#* 



Heads of spikelets in panicled spikes. 



3. S. Blumel, Nees Agroat Bras. 535; leaves 9-10 by l^r-Ui^-. 

 sterile branches up to 16 in. oblong-lanceolate, spikelets under t ' 

 cylindric, rachilla ciliate, empty gls. 2 oblong long-mucronate S^^^^^^^hJ^ 

 gl. longer, paleje I or 2 inner convolute, lodicules 0, anthers odiu • 

 Kunth Enum, PL i. 435 ; _B«pr. Bamb. 43, t. 16, 17, f. 4 ; Stend. Sj/n- ^>^. 

 332; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. iii. 424; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. ^^V\^ 7^ 

 136; Kurz Ind. Forester, i. 3.50; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. U^, ^• 

 Melocanna tenuispiculata, Kurz in Hart. Buitenz. and Gale. 



Singapore, Bidley.—Dismin. Java. , , ,,,owed 



Mem.j 30ft.. hollow, fragile, glabrous. Stem^sheaths cylindric, slightly "^^ . jg 

 to the cihate truncate mouth, strigose with whit e bristles ; blade leafy, erect ; fi 

 narrow. Leaves acuminate, base rounded or narrowed, rough on l>oth ^"^ .^^ 

 pubescent beneath, midrib narrow, nerves 5-6; sheath smooth, Reeled, ^j 

 truncate and margins ciliate with white bristles; ligule short fimbriate, ^f * t^, 

 panicle with long spreading erect or deflexed spikelets J-* in. long and ^^h^^^^^rTowlV 

 rachis very slender ; empty gh. 2, striate. ^n^Aers green, obtuse. Or^H/ narr 



ellipsoid. 



9-12 



, f; ?: >at*^olium, Gamlle Bamh. Brii. Ind. 117, t. 1^3 ;. leaje^ r" 

 by la-Ja m. oblong acuminate, Bpikeleta 1-1^ in. long acuminate, ^ v 



