1050 OXI/VII. QRAMTNE^. 



ovate or obovate, emarginate, the lower ones 2-keeled, the uppermost 

 keelless, 6-8 nerved. Sfamens loiig-exserted ; anthers yellow, shortly 

 apiculate. Ovary stipitate, turbinate; style long; stigma simple, 

 plumose. Grain -\ in. long, ovoid to subglobose, brown, shining, hairy 

 above, beaked with the persistent style- base. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 404 ; 

 Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 325, et For. Man. p. cexxxv ; Gamble, Banib. 

 Brit. Ind. (18ii6)p. 78, tt. 68, 69; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 347; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 442; Prain, Beng. PI. 

 p. 1234 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 72. Bamhusa stricta, Koxb. 

 Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 25; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 299.— Veen. Kania 

 bans; lies. 



Throughout the Presidency in deciduous forests, Talbot Konkan : planted, 

 Woodrow. Deccan: rocky hills. Gamble. Gujarat: Panch Mahals, Woodrow. — 

 DiSTRlB. Throughout India ; Java. This bamboo is known as the "male bamboo." 



Dendrocdlamus gifjantens, Munro, in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 26 (1868) 

 p. 150. A gigantic bamboo sometimes grown in gardens, a native oi" 

 the Malay Peninsula and Penang. It is perhaps the largest bamboo 

 known, the stems reaching 100 ft. high with a diameter of 8-10 in. 

 iStem-sheaths very large, 20 in. long and about as broad at the base, 

 the imperfect blade 5-15 in. long and reaching 3| in. broad. Leaves 

 up to 20 by 4 in., cuspidately acuminate ; ligule broad, fimbriate, some- 

 times cleft in the middle. Inflorescence a very large panicle with 

 slender curved branches. Spikelets ^-§ by 5 in., many-flowered, ovate, 

 acute, spiny. Anthers ^-| in. long, acuminate at the tip. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 7, p. 406 ; Gamble, Bamb. Brit. Ind. (1890) p. 87, t. 76 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 13 (1901) p. 442. — Distmb. Malay Peninsula; 

 Penang. 



72. OCHLANDRA, Thw. 



Shrubby gregarious reed-like bamboos ; stems small, thin-walled, 

 erect ; internodes rather long ; stem-sheaths thin, persistent, auricles 

 small. Leaves small to moderate-sized, linear or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, shortly petiolate ; leaf-sheaths striate, fringed ; ligule 

 usually siiort. Inflorescence a terminal spike or spike-like panicle on 

 a leafy branchlet ; spikelets verticillate, partly fertile, partly sterile. 

 Spikelets 1-flowered, often very large. Invol.-glumes 2-6, variable, 

 usually mucronate, empty ; floral glume similar to the last invol.-glurae, 

 mucronate. Palea membranous, not keeled. Lodicules 1-several, 

 conspicuous, variable, usually appressed to the filaments. Stamens 

 many, from 6 to 120; anthers large, narrow, usually apiculate. Ovary 

 narrow; style elongate; stigmas 4-6, plumose or papillose. Grain large 

 or very large, ovoid, long-beaked, supported by the persistent glumes; 

 pericarp very thick, ileshy. — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula), Ceylon, 

 Malay Peninsula ; species 7. 



1. Ochlandra Talboti, JlmmUs, lad. Trees (1906) p. 684. Stems 

 numerous in dense clumps, slender, |-| in. in diam., hollow, sometimes 

 scandent ; nodes thickened, shining, glabrous. Leaves glabrous, pale, 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, 8-12 by 1|-2| in., on a petiole I in. long; 



