Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 193 



Leavesj lanceolate acuminate 6-lU inches long, 1-1| inch wide, tip sub- 

 ulate edges scabrid, sheaths glabrous when old, striate with a callus 

 and long stiff white cilia at the mouth. Panicle very long slender 

 with long wiry branches, rachis smooth striate, marked at the nodes 

 Mith a ring formed by the bases of fallen bracts. Clusters of spikelets 

 very small with few fertile spikelets and many empty glumes. Spike- 

 lets minute ^j, inch long ovate glabrous 1 flowerctl. Empty Glumes 

 1 or 2, with a few lower ones below the articulation broad obtuse. 

 Flowering glumes similar. Palea rounded convolute.Filaments very 

 short. Anthers acute. Ovary ovate. Style thick, stigma bifid not 

 plumose. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 415. Munro.'l.c. 153. PI. V. 

 Gamble I.e. 112. p. 98. Baiiibusa scandens, Bl. Nees. Flora VII. 

 291. Nastus Tjankorrcli, Schultes. Syst. Veg. VII. 1358. Kunth. 

 Enum. I. 430. Chusquea aiiiplopaniculaia, Steud. Syn. 337. Miq. 

 l.c.c. 



Dindings at Lumut (l\idley 3112). Distrib. Audamans and 

 Malay Islands. "• Buluh Akar." 



D, MOXTAXA, Eidley Journ. Koy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. XLIV. 

 p. 210. Culms long and scrambling smooth branches in whorls wiry. 

 Leaves lanceolate acuminate, 8 inches long, by 1 inch wide glabrous, 

 tip scabrid, base unequal slightly attenuate into a short petiole -^ inch 

 long sheaths smooth flattened striate with a low callus minutely 

 pubescent not ciliate. Panicle long rachis wiry pubescent with distant 

 heads of spikelets 2^ inch apart. Spikelets ^-^ inch long straw 

 coloured one flowered. Empty glumes -4 ovate obtuse strongly 

 keeled submucronate rachilla stout flexuous. Flowering glume lan- 

 ceolate ribbed minutely mucronate. Palea oblong with 2 nerves, not 

 keeled or ciliate. Lodiculos 6, spathulate oblong strongly nerved 

 edges ciliate. Gi'ain oblong beaked narrowed at tlie base channelled 

 along one side, beak minutely hairy. Penang Hill (Ridley '<0G4, 

 H260, 10171). Forming dense masses at an altitude of 3000 feet. 



52. ScHizosTAciiYUM, Necs. 



Bamboos, usually slender erect or climbing. Culms smooth 

 thin walled. Culm-sheaths short with small auricles. Leaves broad 

 or narrow petioled. Panicle terminal, of spike-like branches bearing 

 heads of spikelets often reduced to a single head of spikes. Spikelets 

 slender fascicled, cylindric acute. Empty glumes 1 to 3 narrow, 

 nmcronate rachilla elongate between them. Flowering glumes 1-2 

 convolute. Palea similar not keeled. Lodicules 0-4 narrow. Sta- 

 mens 6, filaments free. Ovaiy narrow, the pericarp produced into a 

 beak enclosing the style. Stigmas 3. Grain ovoid beaked with a 

 sloping beak. Pericarp crustaccous seed rounded. 



Species 17. Malay Peninsula and Islands and China one from 

 Madagascar. 



13 



