416 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJE. (Bainbusece, Gamble.) [Schizostachyum. 



-| in. linear-lanceolate, heads 1-3 in a spike bracteate, spikelets few about 

 in. long, empty gls. 1-2 ovate acute 5-7-nerved, fig. gl., longer. 

 P S. elegantissimum, Knrz Ind. Forester, i. 348. (Bambusa elegantissima, 

 Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 42. Beesha elegantissima, Kurz ex Munro in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1808) 146). 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Pahang, Malacca and Johore, Ridley. 



Stems graceful, slender, scancient. Leaves narrowed into a rather long petiole, 

 smooth and glabrous on both surfaces, midrib shining, nerves 3-5 pairs, distantly 

 tessellate by glands, sheaths smooth truncate, callus broad ; ligule very narrow. Rachis 

 of spikes slender, curved ; bracts chaffy, mucronate, yellowish. Spikelets narrow, 

 acuminate ; palea longer than its gl., 2-keeled, glabrous, 2-mucronate. Lodicules 

 ovate, acute, 3-5-nerved. Stamens exserted, anthers linear tips rounded. 



2. S. chilianthum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. (1870) II. 

 88, Ind. Forester, i. 348 ; leaves 6-10 by f-1 in. linear-lanceolate, heads 

 3-6 in. a spike, spikelets about | in. long, empty gls. ovate mucronate 

 striate glabrous, flg. gl. longer. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 115, t. 101. 

 Chloothamnus chilianthus, Bnese in PL Jung h. 387; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 415. Melocanna gracilis, Kurz ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 

 (1868) 133. Bambusa, Wall. Gat. n. 50>. ff / ^L^ 



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Stem 6-8 ft. by $-f in. dianr., Smooth, glosr.y, nodes not prominent; internodes 

 fistular, glabrous ; flowering and leafing branches together half -whorled at the nodes 

 with many bract-like sheaths; branchlets slender, cur/ved, smooth. Stem-sheaths 

 glabrous, smooth, truncate, margins ciliate; blade narrowly lanceolate, base rounded, 

 hairy, decurrent in a long fringed band, auricles narrow long-fringed; ligule 

 narrow long-fringed. Leaves long acuminate, setaceous point sometimes 1-j in., 

 midrib not prominent, nerves 4-6 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands ; sheath glabrous, 

 mouth truncate bearing about 10 stiff white deciduous bristles, auricles short, callus 

 narrow. Heads about ^ in. broad, rachia slender, grooved, glabrous. Spikelet,? 

 acuminate. Palece 2, mncronate, keeled above only. Lodicules 3, 3-5-nerved, ciliate. 

 Ovary oblong, stigmas 3 plumose purple. Grain nearly - in., beak inclined. 



** Heads of spikelets in panicled spikes. 



3. S. Blumei, Nees Agrost. Bras. 535 ; leaves 9-10 by l^-lf in. on 

 sterile branches up to 16 in. oblong-lanceolate, spikelets under in. 

 cylindric, rachilla ciliate, empty gls. 2 oblong long-mucronate glabrous, flg. 

 gl. longer, paleee 1 or 2 inner convolute, lodicules 0, anthers obtuse. 

 Kuntli Enuin. PL i. 435 ; Rupr. Bamb. 43, t. 16, 17, f. 4 ; Stead. Syn. Gram. 

 332; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 42-t; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 

 136; Kurz Ind. Forester, i. 350; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 116, t. 102. 

 Melocanna tenuispiculata, Kurz in Hort. Buitenz. and Gale. 



SINGAPORE, Ridley. DISTRIB. Java. 



Stems 30ft., hollow, fragile, glabrous. Stem-she aths cylindric, slightly narrowed 

 to the ciliate truncate moutli, strigose with white bristles ; blade leafy, erect ; ligule 

 narrow. Leaves acuminate, base rounded or narrowed, rough on both surfaces, 

 pubescent beneath, midrib narrow, nerves 5-6 ; sheath smooth, keeled, mouth 

 truncate and margins ciliate with white bristles ; ligule short fimbriate. Spikes of 

 pauicle with long spreading erect or deflexed spikelets ^-f in. long and chaffy bracts, 

 rachis very slender ; empty gls. 2, striate. Anthers green, obtuse. Ovary narrowly 

 ellipsoid. 



4. S. latifolium, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 117, t. 103; leaves 9-12 

 by l|-25 in. oblong acuminate, spikelets 1-1-1 in. long acuminate, empty 



