Bambusec.] CC. GRAMINEJE. 1215 
Species 1, Indic orientalis incola, in Mauritio culta. Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 131 (excl. 
sp. omnibus preter M. baibusoideam). Hox. Corom. Pl. t. 243 (Bambusa). 
Kurz in For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 669, speciem novam addidit, quze tamen floribus fructuque ignotis 
valde dubia remanet. 
298. Ochlandra, Tw. Enwm. Pl. Zeyl. S0: (Beesha, Munro n Trans. Linn. oc. 
zd 144.)—Spicule: l-flore, secus ped cum ib 
ic v. in capitulum unicum terminale confertz,  rhachilla inarticulata ultra florem 
seepius in stipitem "brevem nudum v. minute glumiferum producta, flore hermaphrodito. 
Glum:e vacuse oo (3-7), subeoriacez, mucronulate v. muticz, ecarinatz, multinerves, ab 
infima brevi lata in supremam elongatam convolutam gradatim aucts ; summa florens 
(v. palea ?) vacuis similis nisi paullo minor florem involvens ; paleacsterum 0. Lodicule ? 
irregulares insquales, interdum fere glumiformes, ima basi v. altius cum filamentis plus 
minus coalite. Stamina oo (6-30), filamentis nune in tubum primum brevissimum demum 
glumas superantem sed facillime fissum coalitis, nune subliberis v. irregulariter hinc inde 
glumaceo-dilatatis. Ovarium longe acuminatum, glabrum ; stylus elongatus, breviter 4— 
6-fidus, stigmatil lato-pilosis. Caryopsis maxima, p pollicaris), ovoideo-conica, 
inato-rostrata, glumis persistentibus stipata, pericarpio crassissimo carnoso a semine 
subgloboso libero.—Gramina arborea v. fruticosa, foliis Bambuse. Spicularum capitula 
v. glomeruli nunc spicam densam subinterruptam formant nunc capitulum magnum ter- 
minale. Spicule ips: longiusculz, antheris exsertis ssepius numerosis insignes. 
Species 3, Indic orientalis peninsule et Zeylaniz incole. Zedd. For. Man. Bot. 234; Fl. Sylv. 
t. 324. 
Beesha, Rheede, Hort. Malab. v. t. 60, speciem refert pro genere non definitam. Bmrsua, Kunth 
in Journ, Phys. xcv. 151, est genus spurium imprimis ad Jab iferam, Roxb. (Melk 
descriptum, quaeum junxit plantam Rheedii ad quam Munro genus Zeesham Duitavit, quod tamen 
Thwaites jam prius sub nomine OcAlandri bene descripsit. 
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