192 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



a. D. rEXDiLUs. Eidl. Jonrn. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. XLIV. 

 p. 210. Culms about ()0 feet tall arched 3 inches through Avith long 

 slender pendulous branches, dark green below ghiucescent when young, 

 Avails rather thick, intei'nodes 9 inches long, nodes rough Avith short 

 projecting rootlets in the loArer parts, Cuhn-sheaths 6 to 9 inches 

 long hard covered at first Avitli Avhite AvooUy appressed in fascicles, 

 limb narroAV lanceolate acute 4 inches or more long caducous, auricles 

 large dark red Avith long white cilia. Leaves lanceolate oblong acu- 

 minate thin glabrous o to G inches long ij to incli Avide, base broad 

 truncate edges scabrid at the tip, petiole short thick -^^ inch long, 

 sheaths minutely pubescent, tip truncate edges scal)rid, ligule very 

 short Avitli few or no cilia at the mouth. l*anicle of simple spikes 

 of heads on the ends of the leafy branches Avith occasionally 1 or more 

 branchlets. Heads of spikes croAvded i incli long with broad sheaths 

 yellow Avitli a short limb at the base. Spikelets I inch long glabrous 

 shining oljlong cylindric numerous one floAvered. Empty glumes ovate 

 glabrous 2. FloAvering glumes longer lanceolate. Palea as long 2 

 nerved not keeled convolute lanceolate. Lodicules 0. Stamens G. 

 Anthers oblong minutely apiculate, lilaments narrow linear free. 

 Ovary conic short hairy. Styles simple hairy. 



Selangor: Talumg Track (Ridley 8482), at an allitudc of 2000 

 feet. Endemic. This super!) bamboo luis long been cultivated in the 

 Botanic Oardens, Singapore, but has not llowered there. The flowers 

 are described from plants seen in tlie hill foi'est in Selangor. 



51. DlXOCHLOA, Busc. 



Long climbing Iximboos Avith slender much Ijranched stems. 

 Culm-sheaths thick loosely clasping, Avrinkled at the base where a 

 broad leathery ring remains after it falls oil', limb long. Leaves 

 moderately large. Panicle very long slender compound of very small 

 heads of minute s|)ikelets. Spikelets 1 tioAvered rachilla articulate 

 not produced. l']m{)(y glumes 1 to 4 broad very blunt. Flowering 

 glume slend(U'. Palea convolute as large not keeled. Lodicules none 

 or six. Stamens G free short. Ovaiy ovate glabrous. Style short. 

 CJraiu ovoid acuminate. 



Species 3. Burma, Andamans and Malay Islands. 

 Emj)ty glumes 1-2 . . . . . . . . D. Tjankorrch. 



Empty glumes 4 .. .. .. .. .. D. monlana. 



1). TjAXKOKKi^ir, Buse. Miij. PI. Jungh. 388. Culms very long 

 scrambling, 1 inch through or much less, snuwlli, branches slender 

 in tufts from the nerves. Culm-sheaths cylindric gradually attenuate 

 towards the mouth not auricled sprinkled with miiuite white bristles 

 limb ovate lanceolate acuminate, ligule broad entire or slightly tootlied. 



