184 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Porak: Gimong Tuas at 4oOO to ooOO feet elevation (Wray). 

 Endemic. " Biiliih Bersiimpitan,''. The Semangs use the large sized 

 cane? for the outer case of the blow-pipe (Sumpitan) and the small 

 ones for the inner tube. 



3. B. RiDLEYi, Gamble. Ann. Bot. Gard. Gale. Vol. p. 35. PI. 

 32. A slender stemmed tufted plants with culms about 9-10 feet 

 long and about ^ inch through, thin whorled fistulose internodes 18 

 inches long. Culm-sheaths 4^- inches long smooth, glabrous mouth 

 with long cilia, limb lanceolate acuminate 3 inches long. Leaves 

 oblong lanceolate acuminate narrowed at the base 10 to inches 

 long f inch wide tip scabrid, sheaths short, ending in a short callus, 

 truncate ligule long ])ifid -j inch long lobes broad rounded edged 

 with stiff bristled. Inflorescence on long leafy or nude branches. 

 Spikelets 1-3 inches long, a few in distant whoi'ls glabrous lanceolate. 

 Glumes empty 2 to -1 ovate mucronat^- ribljod. Flowering glumes long 

 ovate lanceolate glabrous mucronate ribbed. Palea shorter obloiig 

 acute bifid. Keels minutely ciliatc at tip. xVnthers long narrow 

 apiculate setose. Style with 3 plumose stigmas. Lodicules 3, 2 

 lanceolate fimbriate the third short ovate, many nerved. Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. p. 388. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Eidley 1693). Endemic. This very 

 slender bamboo only grows in one oi- two spots in dense forests in 

 Bukit Timah. 



B. nana, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 190. The hedge bamboo, a native 

 of China and Japan is cultivated largely for hedges and remains often 

 on abandoned garden sites. I have seen it flowering in Singapore, 

 but it rarely flowers below 2000 feet elevation, it is known as 

 Buluh China. 



4. B. MAGTCA, Pidl. Journ. Poy. As. Soc. Str. Br. Vol. XLIV. 

 p. 208. Stems about 20 feet tall.' and half inch through or less, 

 smooth, branches slender tufted at the nodes, internodes 1 inch long. 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate glabrous 3 inches long ^ inch wide 

 margins scabrid, thickened base narrowed into a very short petiole, 

 sheath auricled with wliite cilia on the auricles. Spikelets in short 

 panicles lanceolate pale 4 inch long i inch across, empty glume 1 

 ovate lanceolate. F'lowering glumes 7- lanceohite mncronulate 

 keeled margins ciliate. Lodicules 3 lanceolate edges ciliate. 



Perak: Gunong Berumbun (Wray 1560). 



The " Buluh Perindu." This plant is referred to B. nrnw, Poxb. 

 by iJamble Ann. Gard. Calc. VII. 4L It is very improl)able tbat 

 Wray's plant could have been introduced on Berumbun and the ad- 

 jacent hills, and it differs from tbc cultivated plant in the taller stem, 

 quite glabrous leaves, less strongly ribbed glumes ciliate at the edge. 



