Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 189 



7. G, LATisriC'ULATA, Gamble I.e. p. 67. PI. 59. A tall bamboo 

 50 ioot liigli. Culm-slieatbs not known. Leaves pale broadly lan- 

 ceolate 13 to 14 inches long 1-1/, inch broad base narrowed decurreut 

 into a very short petiole glabrous tip acuminate sheaths smooth 

 iinely striate keeled with a narrow callus and bifid ligule. Panicle of 

 slender branches 18 inches long, with distant heads with few large 

 flattened spikelets 1-3 inches long ^ inch broad. Empty glumes 2-3 

 ovate lanceolate mucronate ribbed glabrous. Flowering glumes ovate 

 lanceolate long acuminate ribbed faintly ciliate or not on the edge 

 hairy within. Palca shorter than glume with 2 ciliate keels. Lodi- 

 cules obovate 3-5 nerved ciliate. Stamens cxsert tube membi'anous at 

 length. Anthers apiculate penicillatc. Ovary narrowly uvoid pubes- 

 cent. Style slender stigmas 3. Hook. til. Fl.^Brit. ind. VII. 400. 



Malacca (Cantley's Coll.). Endemic. Only once collected. 

 " Buluh Tilan Minyak. Used for making baskets. 



49. OxYTEXAXTiiERA, Munro. 



Arborescent or scandent bamboos usually small unarmed. Culm- 

 sheaths varied usually rather narrow. Leaves usually small petioled. 

 Panicle large with spicate heads of few or many spikelets. Spikelets 

 narroAV elongate conical of one, two or three flowers. Empty glumes 

 1-3. Flowering glumes ovate elongate mucronate. Palea of lower 

 flowers two keeled of uppermost convolute little or not keeled. Lo- 

 dicules 0. Stamens monadelphous exserted, tube thickened at first 

 after memljranous. Anthers narrow acute. Ovary ovoid, style slen- 

 der. Stigmas 1-3. Grain elongate beaked. 



Species 9. Africa, India. 

 Glumes edged with black cilia . . . . 1.0. nigrociliata. 



Glumes pul^escent with pale hairs . . . . 2. 0. sinuata. 



1. 0. NiGKOCiLiATA, Muuro. Traus. Linn. Soc. XXTI. 128. A 

 small slender bamljoo about 15-20 feet tall. Culms dark green ^,-1 

 to 4 inches through with thin walls. Culm-sheaths 6 or more inches 

 long covered with brown hairs edged with brown cilia slightly narrow- 

 ed upwards and tip truncate blade ovate lanceolate decurrent on the 

 sheath with a bright green rounded naked auricle hairy inside. Leaves 

 6-12 inches long or more 1-2 inches wide lanceolate acuminate ending 

 in a twisted scabrid point margins scabrous, glaucous beneath sheaths 

 narrow stitf edges ciliate, with small round naked auricles at the 

 mouth, ligule short. Panicle leafy fairly large of spicate whorls with 

 usually few spikelets in the whorls, which are 1-3 inches apart, racliis 

 hairy. Spikelets narrow cylindric f-1 inch long. Empty glumes 3 

 to 5 ovate acute mucronate riljbcd edged with black cilia. Flowering 

 glumes lanceolate acuminate long mucronate, edged with black cilia. 

 Palea as long or shorter narrow obtuse acute, or bimucronate, keels 



