Dinochloa.~\ CLXXIII. GEAMINE.E. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 415 



Flora, vii. (1824) 291. Nastus Tjangkorreh, Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 1358 ; 

 Kunth Enum. PI. i. 430; Steud. Syn. Gram. 333. Chusqueo, amplo- 

 paniculata, Steud. I.e. 337 ; Miq. I.e. 415. 



MALAY PENINSULA; Perak, Ridley. DISTRIB. Malay and Molucca Islds. 



Stems 100 ft. by 1 in. diam. or more, green, glossy, nodes swollen, of the branches 

 often thorny ; internodes 9-18 in., hairy above, walls thin. Stem-sheaths loose, 

 leathery, cylindric, narrowed to the non-auricled mouth, sparsely bristly; blade 

 ovate-lanceolate, minutely hispid above ; ligule rather broad. Leaves lanceolate, 

 rather soft, base narrowed, petiole very hairy, smooth on both surfaces, mid-rib 

 conspicuous, nerves 7-9 pairs ; sheaths strigose at length glabrous, mouth rounded 

 with long white bristles ; ligule rather broud, long-ciliate. Panicle compound, 

 branches thin, wiry ; rachis curved, striate, flattened on one side ; nodes with a 

 ring formed by the base of the fallen bracts ; clusters with few fertile and many 

 empty gls. Spikelets T \, in. or less, ovoid, glossy, brown, glabrous ; empty gls. 

 with 1-2 smaller at the base, convolute, 5-7-uerved ; fig. gl. similar. Stamens 

 included, anthers acute. Stigma 2-fid, not plumose. Q-rain YJJ in., fleshy. 



Var. andamanica, Gamble 1. c. t. 93; spikelets straw- colrd., leaves up to 12 by 

 2 in. softly ovate-lanceolate, mouth of sheaths more ciliate, ligule more fimbriate. 

 D. andamanica Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Eeng. xlii. (1873) ii. 253, For. Fl. Burm. 

 ii. 570. Andaman and Nicobar Islds., Sieber, Kurz, &c. 



2. D. XK'Clellandi, Kurz in Journ.'-As. 'Soc. Seng. xlii. (1873) ii. 

 253, For. Flor. Burnt, ii. 371 (Maclellandi) ; stem-sheaths truncate at the 

 mouth, leaves 6-18 by 1-4 in. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 113, t. 99. 

 Bambusa M'Clellandi, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. (1868) 114. 



CHITTAGONG, PEGU and MARTABAN, Kurz, &c. 



Stem climbing, 100 ft., or short and straggling, 1-2 in. diam., grey green, 

 nodes swollen ; internodes 6-8 in., young often angled, strigose with brown pungent 

 hairs. Stem-sheaths 6-9 in. by 7-9 in. at the base and 2-3 at the top, cylindric, 

 leathery, strigose with golden -brown hairs ending in a narrow dark glabrous 

 margin and top ; blade lanceolate, glabrous without, densely hairy within, 

 base rounded decurrent on the sheath ; ligule entire or subserrate. Leaves broadly 

 oblong-lanceolate, base unequally rounded, narrowed into a broad thick petiole ^ in. 

 long or less, glabrous on both surfaces, one or both margins retrorsely scabrid, 

 mid-rib prominent, nerves 10-18 pairs ; sheath transversely nerved, keeled, at first 

 strigose, mouth produced into a rounded naked auricle; ligule entire or serrate. 



144. SCHIZ.OSTACHYUBX, Nees. 



Erect or climbing, arborescent or shrubby Bamboos ; stems usually 

 slender, smooth, walls thin. Stem-sheaths short, cylindric, auricles small. 

 Leaves broad, petioled. Panicle terminal, of spicate branches bearing 

 heads of spikelets, often reduced to, a spike of heads, rachis slender. 

 Spikelets slender, fascicled, peduncled or 2-3-nate ; empty gls. 1-3, narrow, 

 usually mucronate, rachilla elongate between them and much beyond with 

 a rudimentary gl. ; fl. gls. 1-2, articulate below, convolute ; palea like its 

 gl., convolute, not keeled. Lodicules 0-4, narrow. Stamens 6, exserted, 

 anthers narrow, filaments free. Ovary narrow, pericarp produced as a 

 tubular beak enclosing the style, stigmas 3 short plumose. Grain ovoid, 

 beaked, beak inclined, pericarp crustaceous; seed rounded. Species 16, 

 trop. Asia and Pacific. 



* Heads of spikelets in terminal simple spikes. 



1. S. tenue, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 114, t. 100; leaves 4-6 by 



