188 Uater'iaU for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Bindings: Liimiit (Eidley 3114); Perak: Taiping (Wray 134). 

 Distrib. Tenasserim and Siam (Kasum, Curtis 3237). '' Buluh 

 Akar/' " Bi\\\\h Mata Eusa." Rare. 



0. G, iiETEROSTACHYA, Mimro. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 125. 

 A graceful bamboo 30 feet long, culms thin whorled, slieatlis not 

 known. Leaves linear lanceolate 4 to 11 inches long ^ to 1 inch 

 wide base rounded into a short petiole 1*^3 inch long, point long and 

 setaceous glabrous except for a few hairs on the midrib, margins 

 scal)rid, sheaths striate ending at the mouth in a sbining callus, and 

 rounded glabrous auricle, ligule long dentate glabrous or long ciliate. 

 Panicle long, with rather slender branches of distant many flowered 

 heads in the axils of chaffy bracts, lieads 1-4 inches apart -1^ inch 

 tlirough. Spikelets of two kinds sterile ^-f inch long of glumes 

 slieathed one within the other, fertile 1 to 1;^ inch long ^ inch wide 

 ghabrous ol)long compressed, with 1 to 3 em])tY glumes, 4 to 5 fertile 

 Howers; 2 to 3 incomplete flowers all on the joints of a consistent 

 rachilla. Empty glumes ovate acute of mucronate, flowering glumes 

 similar palea shorter ol)tuse with 2 ciliate keels. Lodicides 2 to 3 

 oblong or ovate long fimbriate. Staminal tube short at first. Anthers 

 apiculato. Ovary elli])soid very hairy. Style hairy. Stigmas 1 to 

 3. Kurz. Indian Forester 345. Gamble I.e. GQ. PI. 57. Hook. fd. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VII. 400. 



^Malacca: Ayer Panas near houses (Griffith 6731). Without 

 locality (Cantley's Coll.). Endemic. I have only seen a portion of 

 an inflorescence obtained by Cantlev's collector under tbe name of 

 '• Buluh Tilan." 



6. G. LiGULATA, Gamble I.e. G7. PI. 58. Leaves 12 to IG inches 

 long, 2-3 inches broad oblong lanceolate base narrowed unequal into 

 a flat petiole \ to ;^ inch long, glabrous paler beneath tip scal)rid, 

 midrib broad, sheaths smooth shining ending in a cushion-like shin- 

 ing rounded ciliate or glabrous callus, ligule as much as an inch long, 

 bifid with 2 long acuminate membranous lobes. Panicle long witli 

 rather stout branches about 2 feet long with distant heads as much as 

 an inch through and | to 1 inch apart, smaller and crowded towards 

 the tip, with large straw coloured bracts at the base, spikelets cylindric 

 acuminate ^ incli long. Empty glumes ovate mucronate edged with 

 black liairs, 2-1. Flowering glumes longer mucronate edged with 

 black hairs, tij) striate. Fertile flowers 3 to 4. Palea shorter l)lunt 

 or bimucronate, keels 2 ciliate. Lodicules none. Staminal tube 

 tbiekened at last membranous. Antbers long narrow apiculate hairy 

 at tip. Ovary depressed shining hairy. Stvle in stigma slender 

 plumose. Hook. fll. Fl. Brit. Ind. Vll.' 400. " 



Pahang: Kuala Pahang (Pidley 5597): Perak: Kuala Wok 

 (Wray 315), Ipoh (Curtis 31S0). Endemic. "Buluh Telor." 



