420 CLXiiii. GRAMiNE-s. {BambusBCB, Gamble.) [Ochlandra. 



Bpikelets with 2-4 small sheathing bracts; gls. all many -nerved; palea acute, 

 faintly 2-keeled. Lodicules 3, ^ in., membranous, 3-7-nerved. Stamens up tol^l, 

 filaments coherent. Ovary narrow, tip 4-angled, stigmas 5-6 plumose spirally 

 twisted together. Fruit 2 in. by | in. diam., ovoid-oblong, beak 2 in., pericarp flesby. 

 Yar.hirsuta, Gamble 1. c. 126, t. 112 ; spikelets densely brown velvety, leaves 

 thicker, margins more cartilaginous, leaf-sheaths with appressed tuberous-based hairs. 



■Travancore Hills, Beddome, 



morcy ^laments f\ 



5. O. Brandisli, GamlU Bamh. BAt. Ind. 126, t. 113; leaves 10-20 

 by 11-3 in. oblong-lanceolate acuminate, auricles short fringed, spiKeiew 

 l~\\ in. conical glabrous bracteolate with chaffy scales, gls. ^11™*'^? 

 nerved, 3-4 lower empty thick ovate truncate tip subulate, ^RP'^™°^ -^ 

 flg. gl. membranous, anthers long-apiculate. Bambusa Wightii, Munr 



Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1863) lU.— Wight 



TiNKBTELLY Ghats ; at Courtallam, Wi^ht 



Leaves thick, base narrowed, glabrous on both surfaces, whitish beneath, pet 



short broad wrinkled beneath, inidrib stout, nerves 10-13 p»ir8 strong, t^^^'^/^^j . ,: 



pellucid glands ; sheath striate, callu:* smooth rounded. Spike terminal, racUis .u ^ 



peiiucm gianas ; sheath striate, callus smooth rounded, tipifce terminal, '"-'"y ^^^ 

 whorls of spikelets several iu the ^xils of ovate glabrous bracts; palea .uk 

 flg. gl. but smaller. Lodicule solitary, i-^% iu. ; many-nerved, truncate auU ret 



Stamens up to 60. Ovar^ glabrous, stigmas 5, plumose 



**** stamens 6 or fewer, unequal, filaments free or coherent, iigti 

 snort. 



6. O. aidleyl, Gamble Baml. Brit. Ind. 127, t. 114; leaves 9-10 by 

 J-1^ in. oblong-lanceolate cuspidately acuminate, auricles ^ounae 

 falcate long-ciliate. spikelets about 1 in. appressedly hairy, en'PMJ- ^^ 

 ovate truncate long mucronate, flg. gls. 1-2 longer, rachilla producea o^j 

 the upper, palea) 2 not keeled. 



SiKQAVo^z, Ridlei/ §' Feilding. .k baw 



Zeaves smooth above except the marginul nerves, scaberulous "enea ,^^^^^ 



rounded, petiole short broad, midrib sJender, nerves 10-12 pai^S' ."'f.„" leafv 

 smooth, striate, callus narrow. Spike or spicate panicle 3-4 in.. tcrminutiDg • 

 bi-auddet; heads subJistichous, bracteate ; bracts with imperfect ^lijae*. _ 



trutieate, fimbriate. Spikelets several sterile, few fertile; outer Paiea ^.^^^^ 

 convolute, bimucronate, tip hairy, inner shorter tip rounded glabrous. ^ ^^^^^ 

 6-10, many.nerved, entire or forked. Stamens 6, 3 longer obtuse, 3 s'""^ 

 Uvan/ hnear; style long embraced by the enlarged perigynium, stigma pmm 



Flow 



7. O. setlgrera, Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 128. t. 115 ; «5^"?'Stair- 

 Papery sparsely atrigose narrowed to a truncate top, blade s^'^^'rX-eatb. 

 like, leaves 6-9 by f-l^ in. oblanceolate acuminate puberulous oe 

 sneath smooth, auricles decurrent, ligule very narrow erose. 



NiLGHiBi Hills; ravines above Gudalur, alt. about 3000 ft., G^>"^J\^ i_|in. 

 .i;,;^ ^ ^f*^"^ ^'•^<=' o'" ^^"ggling reed-like Bamboo. Stem 20 «. j^ ^ ^^,, 

 diam.. naked below, nodes hardly swollen ; interuodes 10-12 in., very s. ootu,^ ^^^ 

 If} '2°* 1 • ; S'«'«-«A«at*« &-7 in., persistent tessellately wrinkled towaui_ ^^.^^. 

 "laae ^ i ,d., hairy within, margins incurved, top very narrow ; blade *-i -'jn^ry. 

 within, margin incurved. Leaves smooth above, puberulous beneath, tip tF^i, 

 nidrib narrow, nerves 6-7 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands ; auricles 

 fimged with long curved bristles 



