Schizosiachyum.] clxxiii. gramine^. (Bamhusece^ Gamble.) 417 



gU. 2 oblong long-mucronate, flg. gls. 1 much larger ovate-lanceolate long 

 mucronate convolute, lodicules 3-4, anthers obtuse tip penicillate. 



STaiay Peninsula ; Pahang-, Ridley. 



Leaves smooth on both surfaces, base rounded, petiole J in. wrinkled, midrib 

 prominent beneath, nerves 10-12 pairs; sheath keeled, smooth, callus broad, auricle 

 large falcate bearing long bristles; ligule short, long-ciliatc. Panicle 6 12 in. 

 ^ptkeleU mixed with ovate-lanceolate glabrous bracts, shortly pedicclled ; empty gls. 

 JsUnt at the base ; margins of flg. gl. often ciliate; palea lanceolate, 2-mucrouate, 

 «mily keeled or channelled. Lodicules 3-4, ^\j-i in., 4th longer(a modified stamen ?). 

 I !i p ^^"^> narrow. Ovary narrowly lanceolate. —Near S. longispiculatum, Kurz 

 na. Forester, i. 351, but ditfers in the presence of lodicules and in the penicillate 

 antljer-tips. 



5. S- aciculare, Gamble Bamh. Bnt. Ind. 117, t. 104; leaves 6-9 by 

 n iqi ^r'l ^^'^^t^-oblong cuspidate, petiole pubescent, spikelets IJ-I5 i°- 

 jeeaie-hke, empty gls. 2 oblong mucronate pubescent, flg. gl. linear oon- 



Yointe appressedly hairy lonff-mucronate, lodicule 1, anthers obtuse tip 

 P«Dicillate. -^ J s 



Maucca; at Rupayoong, Ahvis, 

 scah ^ V ^^^'^^^' Leaves almost elliptic, base rounded or narrowed, tip an obtuse 

 aorous hairy point, pale and smooth beneath, midrib hardly prominent, nerves 



lotii? fi d'^''"*® peduncles ; empty gls, 2, pubescent, oblong, mucronate ; palea as 

 1 na"* 1 ^" ^'•' ""cronate, glabrous ; rachilla sbort, grooved, glabrous. Lodicule 

 gUro * '"°*^^^'ite, glabrous. Anthers very long, narrow. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 



145. KEX.OCANMA, Trin. 



rhiVn ^"^j^^^"* unarmed Bamboos. Stems solitary on the branches of a 

 lont r ^^stant. Stem-sheaths short, brittle, shortly auricled, blade very 

 <iJl,;A I'^^'ff ^'■oad, petioled, smooth. Pcfnicle large, compound, of spicate 

 acr,«- i ^P^^elets. Spikelets 2-3, fascicled in bracts in the axils of the spikes, 

 JZ\.^ with 1 fertile and 1 or more sterile fls. ; empty gls. indefinite, 

 not u 1 ^^' °i?<''"o°ate, striate; fl. gl. similar; palea like its gl. convolute 

 Om.,; 1 / Lodicules 2, narrow. Stamens 5-7, free or irregularly connate, 

 lartre n -Z^"^' ^^y^e elongate, stigmas 2-4 shortly hairy. Fmtt very 

 6 ' Pyriform, long-beaked, pericarp very thick.— Species 1 or 2. 



^- bambus 



Eujpr. Bamh. 65 ; Stend. byn- 

 Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 



Gram S? .;.^g- ?'• similar but thinner. 



(1868)1 to ^^n-FLInd. Bui. iii. 423; M 



^•105 ^^' f^**^ ^'«^- Fl. Burm. ii. 569; Oamble Hamo. t 



^feshaKv,"'"]'-?'^ baccifera, Boxh. Gorom.PL iii. 38, t. 243,/ 



^nun pf^^^'^ Kunth in Journ. de Phys. xlv. (1822) 4 ; Bsvis. 



Castas W h ^^ (^*^^- %«•). -B- baccifera, Schult. ^Z/*'- •"' ".^ "- 

 ^7 'baccifera. Boxh. exBasp. in Ann. Sc Nat. Ser. I. v. (182o) 442. 



T>»A8SE^;jj"'e Khasia and Gabeow Hills, Chixxaoong, Aeeacan, and 



di,^^"green. 



Gram.'i. 141 ; 

 vii, II. 1336. 



50-70 



VOL vit' '*'^'Sht, unbranched till near the top, nodes a thin ring ; iuternodes 



