410 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJR. (Bambmece, Gamble.) [Pseudostachyum. 



petiole, midrib pale, nerves 7-11, nervules oblique ; ligule short. Panicle large, 

 leafy, branches fascicled, rachis wiry angled. Grain subtended by the gls. and 

 lodicules, pericarp crustaceous. Spikelets in diseased specimens converted into 

 rounded softly hairy masses. 



141. TEINOSTACHYUltt, Munro. 



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Shrubby or arborescent; stems thin, arching. Stem-sheaths usually 

 thin. Leaves various. Panicle spiciform, on leafy branches. Spikelets in 

 bracteate whorls, long, narrow, many-fld., upper and lower fls. imperfect ; 

 empty gls. 1-2, mucronate ; fl. gls. similar, mucros longer ; palea convolute, 

 keels ciliate. Lodic.uJes 3, 3-9-nerved. Stamens 6, filaments free, slender. 

 Anthers obtuse or obtusely apiculate. Ovary ovoid or depressed-globose, 

 apex produced enclosing the style, stigmas 2-3 plumose. Grain ovoid, 

 acuminate, beaked, pericarp crustaceous. Species the following. 



1. T. Griffith!!, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 143, t. 3; 

 stem-sheaths auricled, leaves 6-10 by f-1^ in. oblong-lanceolate glaucous 

 beneath, spikelets 2-3 in. linear puberulous, empty gls. 1 or 2 (the second 

 sterile) narrowly ovate mucronate, fl. gls. 3-5 ovate acute mucronate 9-11- 

 nerved, lodicules glabrous. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 98, t. 86. Cepha-" 

 lostachyum Griffithii, Kurz For. Fl. Burma, ii. 566. 



The KHASIA HILLS, ASSAM, CHITTAGONQ & BURMA. 



Stems 25-50 by - in. diam., slender, arching, straggling or subscandent, 

 branches whorled, internodes 18-26 in., walls thin. Stem-sheaths 6 by 1-| in. or more, 

 strigose with white hairs above ; blade 34 in., dilated into large auricles fringed 

 with long curved reflexed bristles, shaggy within ; ligule short. Leaves cuspidate, 

 base rounded, petiole wrinkled, midrib with clusters of long hairs at the base, nerves 

 8-10 pairs with transverse pellucid glands ; sheath keeled, auricles falcate and 

 short ligule ciliate with deciduous hairs. Panicle leafy, branches often whip- like 

 with few often pedicelled spikelets or axillary fascicles, rachis smooth striate; 

 rachilla jointed between the gls. Palea longer than the fl. gl., keels fringed half 

 way down, 4-nerved on each side. Lodicules ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, 7-9-nerved. 

 Anthers yellow. Ovary stipitate, glabrous, style triquetrous. Grain obliquely 

 ovoid, tapering at both ends, beaked, glossy. 



2. T. Wig'htiii Beddome FL Sylvat. t. cccxxiii. ; Forest. Man. p. 

 ccxxxiii. (excl. Syn.} stem-sheaths papery hirsute top truncate not auricled, 

 leaves 6-15 by 1-2 in. oblong-lanceolate, panicle with spiciform drooping 

 branchlets, spikelets -1 in., empty gl. 1 ovate mucronate 5-7-nerved 

 dorsally hirsute, fl. gls. 1 or 2 mucronate nerved transversely, lodicules 

 short ciliate. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 99, t. 87. 



WESTERN GHATS, alt. 3-5000 ft., from N. Canara to Cape Comorin. 



Stem 10-20 ft., by 1-1 in., semi-scandent, branches pendulous, nodes narrowly 

 ringed ; internodes bright green, rough above, walls thin. Stem-sheatlis 10-12 by 

 1-li in., hairs black-brown ; blade subulate, 5-7 in., decurrent on the sheath ; ligule 

 -J- in. Leaves acuminate, tip scabrous twisted, whitish and spaj?sely hairy beneath, 

 midrib broad yellowish, nerves 6-7 pair, tessellate by glands; sheath glabrous; 

 ligule narrow. Panicle large, spiciform branches bracteate, rachis smooth, slender. 

 Rachilla of spikelets slender, flattened and concave below, thickened and ciliate 

 above. Lodicules ovate, 3-5-nerved. Ovary stipitate, depressed -globose, smooth, 

 style included in the long beak of the ovary. Grain stoutly stipitate, ovoid, beaked, 

 glabrous. 



3. T. attenuatum, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 143 ; 



