398 CLXxm. GRAMINE.E. (Bambusea, Gamble.) [Thyrsostachys. 



4-5 in., margins recurved ; ligule narrow, glabrous, ciliate. Leaves 3-6 by \-\ in., 

 glabrous or young puberulous, tips short twisted, costa narrow, nerves 35 pairs ; 

 sheath white pubescent and ciliate, truncate, callus glabrous ; ligule short, ciliate. 

 Panicle graceful, pale ; branchlets many, thin, bearing bracteate clusters of few 

 fertile spikelets mixed with sterile ; bracts cymbiform, glabrous, tip truncate ; rachis 

 fine, wiry, curved, smooth, clavate. Spikelets whitish. Palea of upper fl. gl. 

 longer than the gl., not keeled, concave, striate, glabrous, 2-mucronate, narrowed 

 into a beak. Lodicules 0. Ovary at first ovoid, then depressed, flattened ; style 

 glabrous. 



136. CICANTOCHLOA, Eura. 



Arborescent or scandent. Stems unbranched below. Stem-sheaths 

 usually stiff, hairy above, auricled. Leaves long. Panicle compound, 

 branches long spiciform, bearing heads of few usually fertile and sterile 

 spikelets. Empty gls. 2-3; fl. gls. N similar. Palea of all the fl. 2-keeled, 

 keels ciliate. Lodicules 1-3 or 0. Stamens 6, filaments connate into a 

 short thick at length elongate membranous tube. Ovary hairy, stigmas 

 1-3 hairy. Grain usually oblong or linear and furrowed, pericarp 

 membranous. Species about 11, chiefly Malayan. 



* Spikelets oblong or ovoid, rounded, or flattened in G. Scortecliinii. 



1. G-. verticillata, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 124; 

 spikelets 2-4-fld. -^ y% in. ovate subacute glabrous, empty gls. 2-3 

 broadly ovate ciliolate, flg. gls. 3-4 similar many-nerved mucronate. 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 61, t. 52. Gr. maxima, Kurz in Tidschr. Ned. 

 Ind. xxvii. (1864) 226, Ind. Forester, i. 343. Bambusa verticillata, Willd. 

 Sp. PL ii. 245. B. pseudarundinacea, Steud. Syn. Gram. 330. 



MALAY PENINSULA, wild and cultivated. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago. 



Stems tufted, 80-100 ft., 4-5 in. diain., young striped yellow, mealy and with 

 appressed brown deciduous bristles ; old gray-green ; nodes hairy, not prominent ; 

 intercedes 18 in., walls rather thin. Stem-sheaths 12 in. long, as broad or broader, 

 rounded to the mouth with rounded ciliate auricles, clothed without with golden 

 brown hairs, glabrous and shining within ; blade short, recurved, ovate, acuminate, 

 narrowly decurrent ; ligule narrow. Leaves 10-15 by l^-2, base narrowed, top 

 setaceous twisted scabrid, young hairy beneath, nerves 8-12 ; sheath truncate, young 

 hairy, callus narrow, auricle short glabrous; ligale minute. Rachis and branch- 

 lets "glabrous, smooth, slender. Palea of flg. gl. shorter than the gl. sometimes 

 2-mucronate, 3-5-nerved, ciliate on and between the keels. Lodicules variable. 

 Anthers yellow. Ovary suborbicular, very hairy ; style pubescent, stigmas 2-3. 



2. G. Scortechinii, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 62, t. 53 ; spikelets 

 trimorphous larger fertile, medium rigid, small sterile, fertile spikelet 

 T 7 o- T 9 o in. ovate acute flattened densely clothed with silvery grey hairs, 

 empty gls. 2-3 ovate mucronate, fl. gls. longer. 



MALAY PENINSULA, Scortechini, &c., alt. 400-600 ft. 



Gregarious, forming forests. Stems 40-80 ft., 4-6 in. diam. Leaves lineir- 

 lanceolate, 12-16 by 1-1 in., often unequal sided, base narrowed, tip acuminate 

 twisted scabrid, softly hairy beneath, tessellate by pellucid glands ; sheath densely 

 pubescent, callus pubescent; auricle small, rounded, fringed with bristles; ligule 

 short, hairy. Particle compound, of curved spiciform branchlets bearing whorls of 

 distichous heads 1-2 in. apart. Spikelets 2-5 fertile in each head mixed with sterile, 

 rachis pubescent ; uppermost flg. gl. convolute; palea shorter than the gl., 6-nerved 



