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longer. Palea shorter tip bifid keels eiliate. Lodiculcs none. Stamen 

 tube long. Anthers yellow apiciilate. Ovarj' rounded, style long 

 glabrous stigma bifid, grain glabrous ellipsoid with an obtuse truncate 

 hairy top. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. YII. 398. 



Selangor near the Kuala Lumpur Caves (Eidley 81T0) on the 

 Semangko Pass to 3T00 feet alt. forming forests (Ridley 8481), 

 (Curtis 3746), Bukit Hitam (Ridley 7786); Perak (Scorteehini) ; 

 riu Kerling; Ulu Selangor (King's Coll. 8,573) ; Upper Perak (\Yray 

 3433). Endemic. A very fine bamboo '*' Buluh Eayah." 



3. G. Wrayi, Gamble I.e. 64. PI. 55. Culms 3 inches through, 

 branchlets smooth clothed with glaucous scurf. Leaves 12 to 15 

 inches long, 3 to 2 5 inches wide oblong lanceolate cuspidate acuminate 

 roundly attenuate at the base into a petiole | to -^^ inch long, tip 

 subulate setaceous, smooth above pale softly strigosely hairy beneath 

 edges scabrid, midrib broad, sheaths smooth ending in a narrow callus 

 with a short auricle, fringed with long stiff white bristles ligulc short 

 pubescent. Panicle compound branches witli heads of few fertile 

 flowers and several sterile flowers and many short bracts rachis slender 

 pubescent, joints from | to 3 inches long. Spikelets conical somewhat 

 flattened |- inch long acute. Empty glumes 3 to 3, oval mucronato 

 fringed with stiff blackisli hairs. Flowering glumes similar but 

 longer. Palea narrow oblanceolate tip bifid, keels 3 not or faintly 

 eiliate. Stamenal tube thick finally long membranous. Anthers 

 very long with a hairy setaceous point. Ovary narrowly ovate hairy, 

 style long slender, stigmas plumose. Hook. fil. I.e. 399. 



Perak: Bukit Gantang (\Yray 1895). Xative name " Buluh 

 Plang." Endemic rare. 



4. G. KuRzii, Gamble I.e. 65. PI. 56. Culm-sheaths glabrous 

 cylindrical about 6 inches long, 3 inches broad, limb longer recurved 

 lanceolate acuminate decurrent in a narrow black glabrous band lining 

 the top of the sheath and ending in a small round black auricle ligule 

 narrow. Leaves linear lanceolate 8 to 13 inches long |-1^ inch wide 

 base narrowed into a petiole I inch long, glabrous above whitish with 

 scattered hairs beneath edges scabrous, midrib narrow, sheaths hairy 

 when young finally smooth truncate with small rounded auricles. 

 Panicle of rather stiff slender branches with small heads of few 

 spikelets | an inch to 1 inch apart, rachis slender smooth. Spike- 

 lets cylindric acuminate half an inch apart. Glumes striate at the 

 top, mucronate glabrous except for a strong fringe of hairs on tlie 

 edge. Empty glumes 3 or 3 ovate. Flowering glumes similar but 

 longer narrower, with a longer mucro. Palea linear blunt, keels 

 eiliate. Stamenal tube short. Anthers blunt apiculate grain trun- 

 cate glabrous. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VIL p. 5. 



