Schizostachyum.] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJJ. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 417 



gls. 2 oblong loncr-mucronate, flg. gls. 1 much larger ovate-lanceolate long 

 mucronate convolute, lodicules 3-4, anthers obtuse tip penicillate. 



MALAY PENINSULA ; Pahang, Ridley. 



Leaves smooth on both surfaces, base rounded, petiole in. wrinkled, midrib 

 prominent beneath, nerves 10-12 pairs; sheath keeled, smooth, callus broad, auricle 

 large falcate bearing long bristles; ligule short, long-ciliate. Panicle 6-12 in. 

 Spikelets mixed with ovate-lanceolate glabrous bracts, shortly pedicelled ; empty gls. 

 distant at the base ; margins of flg. gl. often ciliate ; palea lanceolate, 2-mucronate, 

 dorsally keeled or channelled. Lodicules 3-4, -jL-J in., 4th longer (a modified stamen ?). 

 Anthers long, narrow. Ovary narrowly lanceolate. Near S. longispiculatum, Kurz 

 Ind. Forester, i. 351, but differs in the presence of lodicules and in the penicillate 

 anther- tips. 



5. S. aciculare, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 117, t. 104; leaves 6-9 by 

 1^-2 in. ovate-oblong cuspidate, petiole pubescent, spikelets 1^-1 5 in. 

 needle-like, empty gls. 2 oblong mucronate pubescent, flg. gl. linear con- 

 volute appressedly hairy long-mucronate, lodicule 1, anthers obtuse tip 

 penicillate. 



MALACCA ; at Rupayoong, Aliois. 



A small bamboo. Leaves almost elliptic, base rounded or narrowed, tip an obtuse 

 scabrous hairy point, pale and smooth .beneath, midrib hardly prominent, nerves 

 10 pairs; sheath smooth, mouth with a "few long bristles, callus rounded. Spikes 

 slender, rachis flattened on one side; bracts few, short. Spikelets very long, narrow, 

 on short bracteate peduncles ; empty gls. 2, pubescent, oblong, mucronate ; palea as 

 long as the flg. gl., mucronate, glabrous ; rachilla short, grooved, glabrous. Lodicule 

 1, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous. Anthers very long, narrow. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 

 glabrous. 



145. 1VIELOCANNA, Trin. 



Arborescent unarmed Bamboos. Stems solitary on the branches of a 

 rhizome, distant. Stem-sheaths short, brittle, shortly auricled, blade very 

 long. Leaves broad, petioled, smooth. Panicle large, compound, of spicate 

 one-sided spikelets. Spikelets 2-3, fascicled in bracts in the axils of the spikes, 

 acuminate with 1 fertile and 1 or more sterile fls. ; empty gls. indefinite, 

 acuminate, mucronate, striate ; fl. gl. similar ; palea like its gl. convolute 

 not keeled. Lodicules 2, narrow. Stamens 5-7, free or irregularly connate. 

 Ovary glabrous, style elongate, stigmas 2-4 shortly hairy. Fruit very 

 large, pyriform, long-beaked, pericarp very thick. Species 1 or 2. 



1. M. bambusoides, Trin. in Spreng. Neue Enter deck. ii. 43, Syst. 

 ii. 113 (excl. Syn. Lour.} ; stem-sheaths 5-6 in. strigose with whitish hairs 

 abruptly truncate with rounded auricles, leaves 6-14 by 1-3 in. lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate, spikelets about % in. spinous glabrous, empty gL. 

 2-4 lanceolate, flg. gl. similar but thinner. Rupr. Bamb. 65 ; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 831 ; Miq. JY. Ind. But. iii. 423; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 

 (1868) 1H2 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 569 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ir>d. 119, 

 t. 105. Bambusa baccifera, Roxb. Gorom.Pl. iii. 38, t. 243, Fl. Ind. ii. 197. 

 Beesha Kheedii, Kunth inJourn. de Phys. xlv. (1822) 4 ; Revis. Gram. i. 141 ; 

 Enum. PL i. 434 (excl. Syn.). B. baccifera, Schult. Syst. vii. II. Io3(5. 

 Nastus baccifera, Roxb. ex Rasp, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. I. v. (1825) 442. 



ASSAM, the KHASIA and GAEEOW. HILLS, CHITTAGONG, ARRACAN, and 

 TENASSEEIM. 



Evergreen. Stems solitary on branches of the rhizome, 50-70 ft. by l-3 in. 

 diam., green, straight, unbranched till near the top, nodes a thin ring; internodes 



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