418 OLXXIII. GRAMINE^:. (Bambusew, Gamble.) \_Melocanna. 



12-20 in., walls thin. Stem- she atlis 5-6 in. by 6-12 at the base, yellow, margins 

 straight for f up, then waved, auricles often long-fringed ; blade up to 1 ft., base 

 1 in. broad, decurrent in a narrow strip along the top of the sheath ; ligule very 

 narrow, serrate. Leaves from fascicled branches, tip long twisted scabrous, 

 glaucescent beneath, young hairy, margins ciliate, inner and -3 adjoining nerves 

 scabrous, midrib prominent, nerves 8-12 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands ; sheath 

 glabrous, auricles pointed, ciliate and bearing 10-12 large whitish bristles ; ligule 

 very short. Panicle with drooping branches. Spikelets about in., glabrous ; empty 

 gls. with sometimes abortive buds. Lodicules erose, 3-5-nerved. Fruit up to 3-5 

 by 2-3 in. 



2. IK. humilis, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 569 ; stem-sheaths very short 

 glabrous ? mouth much produced rounded inflated and sinuate, leaves 4-6 

 by -1 in. lanceolate to linear-lanceolate roughish puberulous beneath, 

 base obtuse, petiole about in., sheath glabrous mouth minutely auricled 

 deciduously long-fringed. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 120, t. 106. 



ARRACAN and PEGU, Kurz. 



Known chiefly from the leaves and sheath. Stems 8-15 by 1 in. diam. ; nodes 

 hardly thickened, internodes about I ft. Blade of stem-sheath linear, erect, decurrent 

 in a narrow nude green strip bordering the sinuses ; ligule very narrow, entire. 



146. OCHLANDRA, Thwaites. 

 regarious, reed-like Bamboos. Stems erect, internodes rather 



long, thin- walled. Stem-sheaths thin, persistent, auricles small. Leaves 

 as in Bambusa, margins cartilaginous, nerves many; sheath striate, fringed ; 

 ligule (except in one sp.) short. Spikelets fertile and sterile mixed, or 

 whorled on terminal spikes or spicate panicles from a leafy branchlet, often 

 very large, 1-fld. ; empty gls. 2-5, usually mucronate ; fig. gl. like the 

 uppermost empty, mucronate ; palea membranous, not or faintly 2-keeled. 

 Lodicules 1 or more, usually appressed to the filaments. Stamens 6-120, 

 filaments free or monadelphous, exserted; anthers long, narrow. Ovary 

 narrow, style elongated, stigmas 3-6. Fruit large, ovoid, long-beaked, 

 pericarp fleshy. Species the following. 



* Stamens many, ligules short, filaments free. 



1. O. Rheedii, Benth. ex Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 121, 1. 107 ; leaves 

 4-10 by |-1|- in. linear-lanceolate, sheath smooth, auricles falcate fringed 

 with bristles, spikelets cylindric acute glabrous, sterile ^-f in., fertile 

 1-1 in., empty gls. 2-3 broadly ovate mucronate many-nerved, fig. gl. 

 larger subacute, anthers mucronate. Beesha Eheedii, Kunth Enum. PL i. 

 434 (excl. all'dt,. but Rheede); Rupr. Bamb. 65; Munro in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxvi. (1868) 144; Beddome FL Sylvat. Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiv. 

 Melocanna Rheedii, Steud. Syn. Gram. 332. Bambusa scriptoria, Dennst. 

 Schluess. Hort. Malab. Zl.Rheede Hort. Mai. v. t. 60. 



COCHIN and TRAVANCORE, White, Johnstone, &c. 



Stems erect, up to 16 ft. by 1 in. diam. ; nodes somewhat raised ; internodea 

 about 17 in., walls | in. thick. Stem-sheaths 4-6 in., purplish-green, young hairy, 

 margins ciliate, top rounded-truncate, auricles falcate long-ciliate ; blade subulate, 

 base hairy within ; ligule short, ciliate. Leaves usually small, base rounded, smooth 

 on both surfaces, midrib narrow, nerves 5-10 pairs. Spikes or spicate panicles 

 terminal or axillary on leafy branchlets. Palea convolute, long-mucronate, base 

 membranous. Lodicules many, - in., acute, glabrous, 1-7-nerved. Stamens 15-18. 

 Ovary oblong, style embraced by the enlarged perigynium, stigmas 3, plumose. Fruit 

 oblong, long-beaked. 



