420 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJE. (Bambusece, Gamble.) [Ochlandra. 



spikelets with 2-4 small sheathing bracts j gls. all many -nerved; palea acute, 

 faintly 2-keeled. Lodicules 3, in., membranous, 3-7-nerved. Stamens up to 120, 

 filaments coherent. Ovary narrow, tip 4-angled, stigmas 5-6 plumose spirally 

 twisted together. Fruit 2 in. by in. diam., ovoid-oblong, beak 2 in., pericarp fleshy. 

 ^ Vnr. hirsute, Gamble 1. c. 126, t. 112 ; spikelets densely brown velvety, leaves 

 thicker, margins more cartilaginous, leaf-sheaths with appressed tuberous-based hairs. 

 Travaucore Hills, Beddome. 



: * Stamens many, ligule 1 in. or more, filaments free. 



5. O. Brandisii, Gamble Bamb. Brit. 2nd. 126, t. 113 ; leaves 10-20 

 by l|-3 in. oblong-lanceolate acuminate, auricles short fringed, spikelets 

 1-1 1 in. conical glabrous bracteolate with chaffy scales, gls. all many- 

 iierved, 3-4 lower empty thick ovate truncate tip subulate, upper thinner, 

 flg. gl. membranous, anthers loner-apiculate. Bambusa Wightii, Munro in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1863) 111. Wight Cat. n. 1009. 



TINNEVELLY GHATS ; at Courtallam, Wight, Brandis. 



Leaves thick, base narrowed, glabrous ou both surfaces, whitish beneath, petiole 

 short broad wrinkled beneath, midrib stout, nerves 10-13 p.iirs strong, tessellate by 

 pellucid glands ; sheath striate, callus smooth rounded. Spike terminal, rachis thick, 

 whorls of spikelets several in the axils of ovate glabrous bracts; palea like the 

 flg. gl. but smaller. Lodicule solitary, ^-^ in. ; many-nerved, truncate and retuse. 

 Stamens up to 60. Ovary glabrous, stigmas 5, plumose. 



**** Stamens 6 or fewer, unequal, filaments free or coherent, ligule 

 short. 



6. O. Ridleyi, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 127, t. 114 ; leaves 9-10 by 

 l-l in. oblong-lanceolate cuspidately acuminate, auricles rounded or 

 falcate long-ciliate, spikelets about 1 in. appressedly hairy, empty gis. 1-2 

 ovate truncate long mucronate, flg. gls. 1-2 longer, rachilla produced beyond 

 the upper, palese 2 not keeled. 



SINGAPORE, Ridley fy Feilding. 



Leaves smooth above except the marginal nerves, scaberulous beneath, base 

 rounded, petiole short broad, midrib slender, nerves 10-12 pairs; sheath short, 

 smooth, striate, callus narrow. Spike or spicate panicle 3-4 in., terminating a leafy 

 branchletj heads subdistichous, bracteate ; bracts with imperfect blades, ovate, 

 truncate, fimbriate. Spikelets several sterile, few fertile ; outer palea narrow, 

 convolute, bimucronate, tip hairy, inner shorter tip rounded glabrous. Lodicules 

 6-10, many-nerved, entire or forked. Stamens 6, 3 longer obtuse, 3 shorter acute. 

 Ovary linear; style long embraced by the enlarged perigynium, stigma plumose. 



Flowers unknown. 



7. O.setig-era, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 128, t. 115; stem-sheaths 

 papery sparsely strigose narrowed to a truncate top, blade subulate hair- 

 like, leaves 6-9 by f-1^ in. oblanceolate acuminate puberulous beneath, 

 sheath smooth, auricles decurrent, ligule very narrow erose. 



NILGHIRI HILLS ; ravines above Gudalur, alt. about 3000 ft., Gamble. 



A small tufted erect or straggling reed-like Bamboo. Stem 20 ft. by | in. 

 diam., naked below, nodes hardly swollen; internodes 10-12 in., very smooth, walls 

 Vu-i in. thick. Stem-sheaths 6-7 in., persistent tessellately wrinkled towards the top, 

 blade |-i in., hairy within, margins incurved, top very narrow ; blade |-1 in., hairy 

 within, margin incurved. Leaves smooth above, puberulous beneath, tip capillary, 

 midrib narrow, nerves 6-7 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands ; auricles of sheath 

 fringed with long curved bristles. 



