402 CLXXIII. GKAMINE.E. (Bambuiecu, Gamble.) [Oxytenanthera. 



MALAYA ; Sunjei Ulong. JOHOEE, Ridley (var. with glabrous spikelets). 



Leaves 10-12 by li-li in., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base rounded or sub- 

 cordate, petiole broad hairy, tip setaceous scabrid twisted scaberulous above, midrib 

 faint, nerves 10-12 pair j sheath glabrous or puberulous, keeled, striate, ending in a 

 narrow ciliate callus ; ligule rather short, thickly pubescent. Panicle with slender 

 sinuous branches, internodes -! 'n. Ooary broadly ovoid, style hairy, stigma 

 plumose. 



4. O. parvifolia, Brandis ex Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 72, t. 63; 

 leaves 3-5 by 5 in. linear-lanceolate puberulous beneath, spikelets narrow 

 -f in. 4-10 in a whorl with polished bracts, rachis slender wiry, gls. 

 eciliate fertile and sterile mixed, empty gls. 2-3 ovate mucronate glabrous, 

 ti. gls. similar but longer usually 2 fertile and 1 imperfect, palea 2-3-nerved 

 between the shortly ciliate keels, anthers short obtuse. 



BURMA ; in the Yonzalin Valley, Brandis. 



Stems up to 3 in. diam. Stem- sheaths 8-9 by 8-10 in., strigose with brown 

 hairs, top truncate striate ; blade 2-3 by 1 in , base rounded and decurrent in a 

 narrow naked subauricled band ; ligule long, rather broad. Leaves shortly 

 petioled, base rounded, tip subulate twisted, pale and puberulous beneath ; sheath at 

 first hairy, ending in a prominent callus bristly at the top. Panicle of long glabrous 

 branches, with internodes 1-2 in. Spikelets glabrous ; empty gls. striate towards 

 the tip. Ovary hairy, style long slender, stigmas 1-2 plumose. 



** Heads of many spiTcelets. South Indian species. 



5. O. Thwaitesii, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 129 ; 

 stem reed-like straggling, leaves up to 8-12 by 1-1 in., spikelets |-| in. 

 in dense heads with ovate bracts acute pale usually 1-fld., rachis smooth, 

 gls. with more or less ciliate margins, empty gls. 2-3 ovate mucronate 

 many-nerved, fig. gl. ovate acute cuspidate pubescent above, palea con- 

 volute, anther-tips long hairy, stigmas 3. Beddome Fl. ISylu. t. cccxxii.; 

 Forest. Man. p. ccxxxii. ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PL 110; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 

 73, t. 64. Dendrocalaraus monadelphus, Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 376. 



NILGHIEI and TEAVANCOEE HILLS, alt. 3500-6000 ft. CEYLON, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Stems 10-12 ft. by 1 in. diam., gregarious, straggling or subscandent, smooth j 

 branches whip-like, branchlets whorled and sheathed, nodes prominent, internodes 

 12-18 in. rough, young hirsute, walls T y-T 2 o m - thick. Stem-sheaths about 6 by 

 3-4 in., of young shoots glabrous yellow shining, of old strigose with light brown 

 hairs, ending in a coriaceous separable ciliate ring; blade 3-5 by 1 in., base rounded 

 decurrent in rounded falcate auricles, pectinately ciliate with long curved bristles ; 

 ligule of old sheaths long-fimbriate, of young narrow erose. Leaves with twisted 

 setaceous tips, sparsely hairy beneath, midrib narrow yellow, nerves 4-5 pairs, pel- 

 lucid glands few ; sheath often hirsute keeled, callus rounded, young with falcate 

 bristly auricles ; ligule long. Panicle very large, leafy j lower heads l-2 in. diam., 

 upper smaller with fewer spikelets. Ovary ovoid and style pubescent. Grain - in., 

 glabrous, mucronate. Easily recognized by the whip -like climbing branches and 

 long-ciliate sheaths. 



6. O. monostigrma, Beddome Fl. Sylv. Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiii., and 

 Ic. PI. Ind. Or. i. 56, t. 234 ; stem solid velvety-tomentose pale yellow, 

 leaves 6-8 by \\ in. linear-lanceolate, spikelets f-1 in. in globose heads fertile 

 and sterile spinescent, glabrous, empty gls. mucronate 2-3 lower small 

 ovate, upper ovate-lanceolate, flg. long linear-lanceolate long- mucronate 

 convolute, palea concave not keeled obtuse, anthers tipped with a long hairy 

 bristle, stigma 1. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 74, t. 65. Bambusa Ritcheyi, 



