Oxytenanthera.*\ CLXXIII. GKAMINEJS. (Bambusew, Gamble.) 403 



Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 113. Schizostachyum hindo- 

 stanicum, Kurz in Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xlii. (1873) II. 252. 



WESTERN GHATS, from the Concan to the Anamalai Hills. 



Stems 10-15 ft. or more by I in. diam., internodes long. Stem-sheaths 6-9 by 

 3 in. broad at the base, narrowed from the base up to the 2-lobed tip ; blade in the 

 sinus, 3 in., linear-lanceolate; ligule long, fimbriate. Leaves variable, shortly 

 petioled, pale green, tip setaceous twisted, base unequal rounded, sparsely hairy 

 beneath, midrib beneath yellow shining, nerves 7-12 ; sheaths striate ; ligule long. 

 Panicle large, terminal, rachis smooth, heads of spikelets up to 2J in. diam. Ovary 

 ovoid, acuminate and style glabrous, stigma thickened. Grain narrow, tipped with 

 the conic style-base. 



7. O. Stocksii, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 130 ; stems 

 glabrous or softly pubescent, leaves 4-8 by ^- in., spikelets \ in. in 

 globose heads spinescent glabrous fertile and sterile, empty gls. 2 ovate 

 mucronate 5-7-nerved, fl. gls. 2 ovate subacnte dorsally mucronate, anthers 

 short acute, stigma 1. Beddome Fl. 8ylvat. t Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiii. ; 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 75, t. 66. 



The CONCAN, Slocks, &c. (usually cultivated). 



Stems slender, grey-green, solid, or tube slender, nodes with a softly pubescent 

 ring ; internodes 6-12 in. Stem-sheaths 6-9 in. by 3-7 at the base, tapering 

 upwards to a retuse tip, densely brown, strigose, margins ciliate ; blade subulate, 

 base dilated into a rounded fringed auricle ; ligule in., deeply fimbriate. Leaves 

 very shortly petioled, tip setaceous, base rounded or cuneate, beneath glabrous or 

 hairy, midrib narrow, nerves 5-6 ; sheath striate ; ligule rather long, toothed. 

 Panicle large ; heads 1 in. diam., mixed with chaft'y bracts, rachis smooth, inter- 

 nodes 1-2 in. Anthers short, acute. Ovary and long style hairy, stigma simple, 

 plumose. 



8. O. Bourdilloni, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 76, t. 67 ; stem-sheaths 

 coriaceous nearly glabrous, leaves 6-9 by 1-1J in., mouth of leaf-sheath 

 with 2 shining calli, spikelets f-f in. in globose heads glabrous, rachis 

 soft, empty gls. 2 ovate mucronate many-nerved, fl. gls. 3, mucronate 

 lowest much longer than the next, rachilla ciliate and bearing a setaceous 

 gl., anthers apiculate, stigmas 3, short. 



TEAVANCOEE ; on the Ghats, alt. 3-4000 ft., Bourdillon. 



Stem in open clumps of straggling habit, soft, internodes long. Stem-sheaths 

 6-12 by often 6 in., glabrous, except a few black bristles below, slightly narrowed 

 upwards, tip truncate; blad9 2-3 in., triangular, decurrcnt and forming two rounded 

 recurved entire wings that line the upper edge of the sheath ; ligule short. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, thin, tip twisted, scabrous covered above with scabrid papillae near 

 the margins and midrib, smooth beneath; midrib narrow, nerves 7-8; sheath soft, 

 striate ; ligule long, serrate. Panicle large spikelets in globose heads l- 2 in. 

 diam., rachis fistular. Palea of lower fls. 3-nerved between the ciliate keels, rachilla 

 ciliate with a terminal imperfect gl. Ovary and style hairy. Grain linear-oblong, 

 tipped with the thickened style-base. 



k, 

 138. DENDROCALAMUS, Nees. 



Arborescent unarmed Bamboos, with, densely branching rootstocks. 

 Leaves shortly petioled, transverse nervules represented by pellucid glands. 

 Spikelets in globose clusters on the long branches of a compound panicle, 

 ovate, '2-6-fld. ; empty gls. 2-3, ovate, acute, many-nerved; flg. gls. like 

 the empty ; palea of lower fls. keeled, of upper dorsally rounded eciliate. 

 Lodicules or rare. Stamens 6, filaments free. Ovary hairy above, often 



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