104B CXLVn. fillAMINK.T:. 



narrow, elongate, conic;i,l, 1 -IMIowerod, the nppormosh usually fertile. 

 ]nvol.-p;lun)e3 1-8, empty; floral glumes ovate, elongate, mucronate, 

 I'aiea oi' lower florets 2-k(M'led, ot' upper florets convolute with obscure 

 or obsolete keel. Lodicules 0. St,amens (5 ; iilaments connate in an 

 ultimately elongated meml)ran(Mis tube. Ovary ovoid; style slender; 

 stigmas 1-8, more or less plumose. (Jrain elongate, beaked, grooved, 

 smoolh. — DrsTRHJ. Species 9, ol" which 8 are found in S. India, liirina, 

 and iVlalaya, the nunaining 1 a native! of Tropical Africa. 



Spikclt 1,9 l-floweriHl ; slylo glabrous ; niit.liers bristly-upiciiiliite. 1. O. i/ioiios/if/ma. 

 Spikclets 2 llowered ; alyle hairy ; aiitliers acute, not apiculato. 2. 0. Stor/csii. 



1 . Oxytenanthera monostigma, Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 ( IH78) ]). ecxxxiii, ct Icon. /'/. I ixl . Or. (1874) p. 56, t. 234. A medium- 

 siziul han)bo() ; stems JO-IT) ft. high by about 1 in. in diam., solid, 

 covered with soft pale yellow velvety tonientiun ; nodes not very 

 ])r()minent ; intcrnodes long; stem-sheaths (J-!) in. long by 8 in. broad 

 iit the base, narrowed to the 2-l()bed tip; blade in the sinus imperfect, 

 about 8 in. long, linear-lane(>()late, striate ; ligule long, linibi-iate. 

 jjeaves variable, pale gn^en, (! 8 by I J in., linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 nncMpially rounded at tin; bjise into a Ihit ])et.iole, ending above in a 

 setaceous twisted ])()int, glabrous or nearly so ab()v<', sparsely hairy and 

 pale beneath; midrib below yellow, shining; nerves 7-12 ; leaf-sheaths 

 striate; ligule ofteii ^ in. long, acute or rounded. Panicle large, 

 terminal, of spicate branches bearing dense globular often large heads of 

 spikelets up to 2j in. in diam. Spikelets ^[-1 in. long, less than 1 in. 

 broad, 1 -flowered, with a long spinous npiculation, very numerous, the 

 fertile and sterile about eepial in numbers. Invol.-glumes 2-8, nnicro- 

 nate, empty ; floral glume long, narrow, linear-lanceolate, convolute, 

 with a long nuicro ; palca shorter than its glume, concave, not keeled, 

 obtuse. Stamens exsert^ed ; anthei's long, brist ly-apiculate, the bristle 

 somewhat hiiiry at the tip. Style long, glabrous; stigma at length 

 curved, tbick(>ned. fJrain narrow, linear-oblong, grooved, tipped with 

 tJie conic sl;yle-base. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 402; (Jamhle, Bamb. MvW. Fnd. 

 ( 1S!)()) p. 74, t. 05 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 847 ; Wocidr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 442.— Vern. Clwua. 



ICoNKAN : niiats, Tdlfmt, Woodrow. Deccan: Suldiar-rallirir hill near Lanoli, 

 Woodnivt ; Saltara Glials, liraiulis ; Mahuhiosliwnr, Fugan ; Pooim districis, 

 Wroinihl(iii\ Aiinioclnagar, Willcins. 8. At. Oountiiy : JNfchic, 8'JO. Kanaka: 

 N, Kiinnra, Woodroiv, Tttlbot. — DiSTiiin. India (\V. reninsula), 



2. Oxytenanthera Stocksii, Mmiro, in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 2G 

 (1808) ]). 18t>. A slender bamboo; stems 80 ft. high by 1-1^ in. in 

 diam., gr(>y-green, covered when young with a white or gre}'^ deciduous 

 tomentum ; nodes with a softly [)uhesceiit ring; internodes 0-12 in. 

 long; stein-sheaths 0-9 in. long by 8-7 in. wide at the base, tn])ering 

 u|)wards to a concavely truncate top, appressedly brown-hairy on the 

 back, ciliate oti the margins; blade imperfect, sidjulate, acuminate, 

 rounded at the base and agiiin expanded into a rounded, waved, long- 

 fringed auricle on the top of the sheath; ligule j in. long, dee[)ly 

 fimbriate, conspicuous. Jicaves 4-8 by f^-j in., rounded or attenuate at 

 the base into a very short petiole ^\y in. lontr, the toj) ending in a 

 se'aceous point, glabrous or nearly so above, glabrous or hairy below, 

 with scahrtms margins; midrib narrow; nerves 5-0; leaf-shoaths 



