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Wray writes of it (Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol p. 159. " The 

 small bamboo called by the Malays " Biiliih perindii " is extremely 

 plentiful on Bcrumbnn and comparatively scarce on the other hill. 

 I was fortunate in being a])le to collect flowering specimens of this 

 elegant little bamboo which is credited with mystic properties by 

 the natives and is in much request by love-lorn swains whose mistresses 

 are cold and irresponsive." 



Bamhusa vulgaris, Schrad. said to be a native of Java is occasion- 

 ally planted. Wray gives the name " Buluh Pan " for it. 



5. B. ELEGANS, Eidl. Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. XLIV. 

 p. 209. A climbing bamboo. Flowering branches slender -^ inch 

 through purplish. Branchlets in whorls a foot apart about 10 in a 

 whorl slender 10 inches long with numerous dry bracts at the base. 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate 2-3 inches long -J inch wide finely ribbed 

 with a very short pctiolule and short oblong ligulo. Flower spikes 

 numerous not whorled nor crowded. Bracts oblong broad dry and 

 pale, outer one f inch long, inner ones smaller more ovate mucronulato. 

 Spikelcts I inch long. Basal spikelet of 5 empty glumes, II flower 

 I inch long. Glumes I and II lanceolate green tipped purple edges 

 ciliate, palea not keeled edges ciliate, enclosing a conic cylindric pistil 

 with 2 short stigmas no lodicules. III flower male, glume and palea 

 as in II. Stamens 3 with very short filaments, flowers 4 and 5 

 abortive. Eachilla flattened dilated upwards ciliate. 



Selangor: Semangko Pass (A. M. Burn-Murdoch). 



The flowers were mostly very young and nearly all destroyed by 

 insects. The full sized leaves were not sent. I am doubtfid as to 

 the genus even of this plant. I only saw three stamens in the one 

 fertile flower and no trace of a pistil, in another flower there were no 

 stamens but a pistil only. 



48. GiGANTOCHLOA, Kurz. 



Arborescent or climbing bamboos generally very large. Culm- 

 sheaths hard, hairy above auricled. Leaves large. Panicle com- 

 pound large, with long branches, heads distant of few or many 

 spikelets, fertile and sterile mixed. Empty glumes 2 or 3, ovate or 

 lanceolate. Fertile glume similar or longer. Paleas 2 keeled, keels 

 ciliate. Lodicules none or 1 to 3. Stamens 6, filaments connate into 

 a tube thick at first, afterwards thin membranous elongate. Ovary 

 hairy. Stigmas 1-3 hairy. Grain usually oblong or linear, grooved. 

 Pericarp membranous. 



Species 11. Burma and Malaya. 



Spikelets ovate rounded small glabrous 1. G, verticiUaia. 



