Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 197 



The Siingei Hiulano- plant is referred to S. latifolium ])y Gamble, 

 hnt I think is imdonbtedly this species. Curtis Sumatran plant, from 

 Indragiri is I think this, but the flowers are very young. He says it 

 is a thin climbing plant growing in immense abundance in swampy 

 places and called " Buluh Jalu." 



53. OcHLANDRA, Tliwaitcs. 



Shrubby reed-like bamboos. Culms thin walled erect internodes 

 long, sheaths thin persistent with small auricles. Leaves rather broad 

 many nerved, sheaths short, except in 1 species. Inflorescence a ter- 

 minal spike or panicle. Spikelets in verticals partly fertile and 

 partly sterile, 1 flowered usually large. Empty glumes 2-3 usually 

 mucronate. Flowering glume similar mucronate. Palea membra- 

 nous not keeled. Lodicules 1-several, conspicuous usually appressed 

 to the stamens. Satmens 6 to 120, filaments free or connate. Ovary 

 narrow, style long. Stamens 4 to 6 plumose, grain very large ovoid 

 long beaked with a thick fleshy pericarp. 



0. RiDLEYi, Gamble I.e. p. 127. Leaves 9-10 inches long 

 1-1| inch wide oljlong lanceolate narrowed at the base into a distinct 

 petiole ^ inch long glabrous tip acuminate scabrous, sheaths short 

 glabrous striate, ending in a narrow callus, with short long ciliate 

 auricles, ligule short. Inflorescence spicate. heads crowded, subdisti- 

 chous bracteate. Bracts ovate truncate, fimbriate with an imperfect 

 ovate blade. Spikelets about 1 inch long, several sterile few fertile. 

 Empty glumes 1-2 ovate truncate long mucronate covered above 

 with appressed hairs. Flowering glumes 1-2 similar longer. Paleae 

 2 not keeled, outer narrow bimucronate hairy at tip, inner shorter 

 tip rounded. Lodicules 6 to 10 lanceolate or spathulate, subacute 

 sometimes forked, ciliate above. Stamens free or connate usually 

 G, 3 longer blunt, 3 shorter acute. Ovary linear narrow enclosed in 

 an enlarged perigynium 2-4 cleft at tip. 



Singapore: Bukit Mandai (Ridley 4620); Johor: Bukit Muar 

 (Feilding). "Buluh Kasap." The Malays say it has been in- 

 troduced from Java and I never saw it anywhere where it looked wild. 



