Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 1 9 1 



Spikolcts small in crowded heads. Panicle 



branches short . . . . . . o. D. pcndulus. 



1. D. GiGAXTEUS, Munro. Trans. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 150. Culms 

 100 feet long or less, 8 to 10 inches througli dark green or grey green, 

 thin walled covered with white waxy scurf when young internodcs 

 15-16 inches. Culm-sheaths 20 inches long and as broad hard glab- 

 rous shining within limb 5 to 15 inches long 3^ inch broad edges 

 waved, base decurrent into glabrous stiff brown wavy auricles, ligulo 

 stiff black, edge serrate. Leaves to 20 inches long 4 inches broad 

 oblong suddenly acuminate unequal sided glabrous, hairy beneath 

 when young, edges scabrous, sheaths glaJjrous with a callus, ligulc 

 broad fimbriate. Panicle very large, branchlets long curved with lax 

 spikes of few spikelets 1 inch through, -J-1 inch apart racliis hairy 

 below. Spikelets | inch or more long, minutely pubescent, ovate 

 flattened spiny many flowered. Empty glume 1-2 ovate mucronate. 

 Flower 3-6, glumes thin papery striate mucronate minutely hairy. 

 Paleas of lower flowers blunt, upper ones acute bifid. Keels 2 ciliate. 

 long hairy with a feathery purple stigma. Grain oblong obtuse hairy 

 above. Gamble I.e. 87. PI. ?6. Bambusa glgantea. Wall. Cat. Bot. 

 Card. Calc. 79. 



Malacca (Derry) ; Paliang; Perak: Larut Hills below Gunong 

 Hijau (Eidley) ; Penang (Wallich). Endemic. In hilhvoods. 



2. D. FLAGELLIFER, Munro. Traus. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 150. 

 Stems 20 to 30 feet tall If to 3 inches through dark green, walls as 

 much as an inch thick in old stems, nodes rough with short rootlets. 

 Culm-sheaths 14 inches long with dark brown fur, limb lanceolate 

 acuminate 16 inches long 2 wide at the base, mouth ciliate. Leaves 

 oblong lanceolate 10-14 inches long li-2 inches wide glabrous a})ex 

 smooth or scabrid base narrowed into a petiole -J inch long. Sheaths 

 smooth. Panicle of longer pendulous branches 2-6 feet long i-achis 

 pubescent grooved I'ather slender. Spikelets in small heads 2 i^ch 

 apart, ovoid green 2 inch long pubescent. Glume I small ovate, II 

 larger boat-shaped tip rounded, edges of both ciliate. Flowering 

 glumes 4 ovate truncate or mucronate edges ciliate. Palea broad 

 bifid with strongly ciliate edges. Lodicules usually none, sometimes 

 1 or 2 spatliulate lanceolate. Stamens 4-6. Anthers rather broad 

 linear apiculate yellow, filaments linear. Ovary ovoid hairy. Style 

 hairy simple purple, rarely trifid. Gamble I.e. p. 91. PI. 80, 



Singapore: Ang Mo Kio (Ridley 66S1) cultivated in Tangliu 

 (10644, 5603, 3945) ; Malacca : Bukit Sabukor (Derry 101) ; Penang: 

 Batu Feringhi Eoad (Curtis 3565, 3566), (Ridley 8363, 9160). 

 Distrib. Tcnasserim. Cultivated largely by Chinese for the edible 

 shoots, and a useful bamboo for many purposes. It is known ac 

 " Buluh Betong." The whole plant perishes after flowering. 



