190 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



2 cilialo, except the uppcrmotit llower glabrous. Stamen tube at 

 linst tbiek tbeu elongate. Antliers i)urple ending in a liairv point. 

 Cii-ain linear oblong. Beddone Fl. Sylv. CCXXXIII. (.lanible I.e. p. 

 Gi). VI. GO. Hook. fil. I.e. 401. Bainhnm nlijrocUlata, Buse PI. 

 Jungh. I. ;3S9. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 41G. B. Bitmuj, llassk. Fl. 

 Jav. rar. 42. Gigantocliloa nigrociljata, Kurz. Ind. For. I. 34o. G. 

 andontanica, Kurz. For. Fl. Burm. II. ooG. 



Singapore: Galang (IJidley 808T), Thomson Eoad (80G3), Ang 

 Mo Kio (GG83); Province Wellesley: Perniatang Bcrtam (IJidlcy 

 G999). Distrib. India, xVndamans, Sumatra and Java. I have only 

 seen tbisf in hedges in Singapore, and it is probably introduced. 



2. 0. sJXiATA, (ianible I.e. U. PI. Leaves 10 to 12 inches long, 

 1-1.', inch wide oblong lanceolate acuminate base rounded almost 

 cordate into a short petiole nearly half an inch long hairy, tip twisted 

 scabrid, glabrous above pu])escent l)eneath, sheaths J'aintly pul)escer.t 

 or glabrous with a short hairy ligule. Panicle of long slender sjjicate 

 biancbes 2 feet or more long, rachis hairy, spikelets in round heads 

 1 inch apart and half inch through. Spikelets narrow conical { inch 

 long, acuminate pubescent. Empty glumes 2-3 ovate mucronato 

 edges ciliate. Flowering glumes ovate mucronate but longer, muero 

 longer. Palea blunt or bifid. Keels 2 eiliate. Stamens cxsertcd, 

 tube thick thin elongate. Anthers narrow, point hairy. Ovary 

 l>roadly ovate hairv, stvle long hairy, llook. 111. Fl. Brit. Ind. A'.ii. 

 401. 



Johor: (iunong Panti (Hidley), llulu Kahang (Kclsall) : Sungei 

 rjong: Seremban (Cantley's Coll.). Endemic. " Buluh Minyak '' 

 used for baskets. 



oO. Di;ni)1{ocalamis, Xees. 



Arborescent bamboos with stout and long culms. Cubu-sheatlis 

 broad with dark brown or wbite hairs, lind) narrow lanceolate. l>eaves 

 lanceolate. I'anicle usually large, the spikelets in globose distant 

 heads ovate 2 to o tioweied." Empty glumes 2-;) ovate acute. Fh.wer- 

 ing glumes similar. Palea of lower ilower keeled, of upper one 

 i-ounded glabrous. Lodicules usually absent. Stamens G iilanients 

 free. Ovary hairy. Stiguuis usually simple. Grain small pericarp 

 erustaceous or coriaceous. 



Species IT. Indo-Malayan. 

 Stems 8-10 inches tii rough. 



S|)ikclels ovate acute \ inch long .. .. \. D. iji<jankus. 



Stems about 2-6 incbo tbrougli. 



Spikelets small in di.-lant licads. 



Panicle branches verv long . . . . 2. D. Jhnjcllifcr. 



