Gigantocldoa.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (Bambusece, G-amble.) 399 



between the 2 ciliate keels, top 2-fid. Lodicules 0. Anthers yellow, long-apiculate. 

 Ovary rounded, style glabrous. G-rain obtuse, glabrous. 



** Spikelets narrow, cylindric, acute, 

 f Leaf-ligule short. 



3. Cr. macrostachya, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 557 ; nodes hairy, 

 leaves lanceolate whitish and softly puberulous beneath, spikelets 

 1-2 in. linear-subulate, gls. fringed with black hairs, empty gls. 2-3 ovate 

 mucronate dorsally many -nerved with a few bristles, fig. gls. 2-3 longer 

 linear-lanceolate convolute, palea very narrow keels white-ciliate dorsally 

 3-5-nerved. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 63, t. 54. 



ASSAM ; Garrow Hills, Mann. CHITTAGONG, ARRACAN, & BURMA, Kurz, &c. 



Evergreen. Stems 30-50 ft., 2|-4 in. diam., fistular, young glaucous, old 

 dark green, sometimes striped ; nodes scarcely thickened ; interuodes 16-30 in., 

 lower shorter, walls -J~TO ^ n - thick. Stem-sheaths 5-8 in. long, up to 14 broad, top 

 truncate, densely covered with blackish hairs ; blade as long or shorter, reniform, 

 acute, appressed hairy beneath, base rounded dilated into a long-fringed band ^-1 in. 

 broad with rounded auricles ; ligule narrow. Leaves thin, lanceolate, 6-15 by |-2 in., 

 tip setaceous scabrid, margins scabrous, midrib narrow, nerves 513 ; sheath hairy, at 

 length glabrous; callus rounded, auricles 1 or 2 ciliate ; ligule short. Panicle large, 

 leafy, branchlets spicate; spikelets 1-2 in., clustered, fertile and sterile. Lodicules 

 0. Anthers purple, tips setaceous. Ovary ellipsoid, style long curved hairy, stigma 

 undivided. Gram linear, puberulous above. The leaves resemble Bamb. Tulda ; 

 the sheaths B. nutans and teres ; the spikelets Oxytenanthera nigro-ciliata. 



4. G-. Wrayi, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 64, t. 55 ; branchlets scurfy 

 glaucous, leaves large oblong-lanceolate cuspidate shortly petioled strigose 

 beneath, spikelets f in. conical acute, gls. fringed with black hairs, empty 

 gls. 2-3 ovate mucronate striate, fig. gls. 3-4 longer narrower, palea 

 narrowly oblanceolate keels faintly ciliate 5-7-nerved. 



MALAYA ; Perak, at Bakit Gantang, L. Wray. 



Stems 3 in. diam. Leaves 12-15 by 2-2 in., tip setaceous, scabrous, midrib 

 broad yellow, nerves 10-12 pairs, nervules of pellucid glands; sheath smooth, 

 keeled, mouth and short auricle fringed with long stiff white bristles, callus narrow ; 

 ligule short, puberulous. Panicle compound, branchlets spiciform, fertile spikelets 

 few, sterile shortly bracteate, rachis curved. Spikelets subcompressed ; empty gls. 

 2-3, flg. gls. narrower. Lodicules 0. Anthers long, narrow, tips elongate 

 setaceous hairy. Ovary hairy, style slender pubescent, stigma broadly plumose. 



5. G-. Kurzii, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 65, t. 56; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate base cuneate petioled sparsely hairy beneath, spikelets | in. 

 acute, gls. fringed with brown hairs, empty gls. 2-3 ovate mucronate 

 many-nerved, flg. gls. 2-3 longer narrower terminal imperfect, palea linear 

 obtuse 3-5-nerved keels ciliate. 



TENASSERIM, Kurz. PERAK, Ridley. 



Stem-sheaths 6 by 3 in., cylindric, truncate, glabrous ; blade longer, recurved, 

 lanceolate, decurrent in a narrow black band lining the top of the sheath, ending in 

 a naked round auricle. Leaves 8-13 by -! i n -> petiole ^ in., midrib narrow, 

 nerves 9-11 pairs ; young sheath appressed hairy, truncate, auricles rounded ; ligule 

 short. Panicle leafy, branchlets spicate. Spikelets 2-3 in. in heads with narrow 

 bracts. Anthers obtuse, apiculate. Ovary stipitate, puberulous, style long, stigma 

 plumose. Grain (young) glabrous. 



ft Leaf-ligule long. 



