stem-sheaths thin, persistent, auricles small. f««^^_ 

 jins cartilaginous, nerves many; sheath striate, i n | » 



418 OLXXiii. GBAMiNB^. (Bambusece, Gamble.) [Melocanna. 



12-20 in., walls thin. Stem-sheatlis 5-6 in. by 6-12 at the base, yellow, margins 

 straight for | up, then waved, auricles often long-fringed ; blade up to 1 ft., i>a« 

 1 in. broad, decurrent in a narrow strip along the top of the sheath ; hgale veij 

 narrow, serrate. Leaves from fascicled branches, tip long twisted scabroas, 

 glaucescent beneath, young hairy, margins cillate, inner and 2-3 adjoining nerve 

 scabrous, midrib prominent, nerves 8-12 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands j sneaiD 

 glabrous, auricles pointed, ciliate and bearing 10-12 large whitish bristles ; lign»e 

 very short. Panicle with drooping branches. SpiTcelets about ^ in., glabrous ; mw 

 gls. with sometimes abortive buds. Lodicules erose, 3-5-nerved. Fruit up to ;>- 

 by 2-3 in. 



2. IMC. hnmilis, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 569 ; stem-sheaths very stort 

 glabrous ? mouth much produced rounded inflated and sinuate, leaves *-^ 

 by §-1 in. lanceolate to linear-lanceolate roughish pubernlous beneaj^ 

 base obtuse, petiole about \ in., sheath glabrous month minutely auncieu 

 deciduously long-fringed. Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 120, t. 106. 



Arracan and Pkgtj, Kurz. -jg. 



Known chiefly from the leaves and sheath. Stems 8-15 by 1 m. diam. ; n 

 hardly thickened, internodes about 1 ft. Blade of stem-sheath linear, erect, decurre 

 in a narrow nude green strip bordering the sinuses ; ligule very narrow, entire. 



146. OCKIiANDRA, Thteaites. 



Shrubby, gregarious, reed-like Bamboos. Stems erect, internodes rather 

 long, thin-walled. 



as in 5a»lOKgflf, margins uariiUclgiuous, uervea maiij i Diio»v" - — ' — . s jjj 



ligule (except in one sp.) short. SpiTcelets fertile and sterile ^^J® V^ 

 whorled on germinal spikes or spicate panicles from a leafy ^^^^^ yi^ the 

 very large, 1-fld. ; empty gls. 2-5, usually mncronate ; fig. gl- ^r.^^^, 

 uppermost empty, mucronate ; palea membranous, not or faintly ^- ^^^^^ 

 Lodicules 1 or more, usually appressed to the filaments. Stamens ^^^^ 

 filaments free or monadelphous, exserted; antbers long, narrow. ,^ 

 narrow, style elongated, stigmas 3-6, Fruit large, ovoid, long-oe 

 pericarp fleshy.— Species the following. 



Stamens many, ligules sTiort, filaments free. 



1. O. Rheedii, Benth. ex Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 121, t- Ij^ 'JS 



4-10 by A-li in. linear-lanceolate, sheath smooth, auricles falcate rr^^ b.j^ 

 •with bristles, spikelets cvlindric acute glabrous, sterile 5-3 '^''g^ gl. 

 1-li in., empty gls. 2-3 'broadly ovate mucronate niany-nervea, »^^ ^ 

 largpr subacute, anthers mucronate. Beesha Rheedii, Kunth^nw • 

 434 {exel. all cif. hut Rlieede); Bupr. Bamb. 65; Munro in J->'"'^-^^.^iv. 

 Soc. XX vi, (186S) 144; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. Forest. Man. V; ^^„jist. 

 Melocanna Rheedii, Steud. Syn. Gram. 332. Bambusa scnptona, ^ 

 Schluess. Hort. Malab. ^l.-Bheede Eort. Mai. v. t. 60. 



Cochin and Teavancore, White, Johnstone, &c. , , tnternode* 



SCema erect, up to 16 ft. by 1 in, diam.; nodes somewhat f ^1^° '„" hairy, 

 about 17 in,, walls \ in. thick. Stem-sheaths 4-« in., purplish-green, ^°""°bolftt«> 

 margins ciliate, top rounded-truncate, auricles falcate long-ciliate ; blaaej ^^ 

 base hairy within ; ligule short, ciliate. Leaves usually small, base rounaea, .^^ 

 on both surfaces, midrib narrow, nerves 5-10 pairs. Spikes or sp'caw > ^^^ 

 terminal or axillary on leafy branchlets. Palea convolute, ^ong-vaWiTOua ^^^^ 

 membranous. XodicuZes many, ^-^ in., acute, glabrous, 1-7 -nerved. S«<»«^ ^^a 

 Ovary oblong, style embraced by the enlarged perigynium, stigmas 3, plumose. 



oblong, long-beaked. ore,. 



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