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glabrous, lanceolate, bearing 2 to 4 empty glumes, then 3 to 5 fertile flowers, then 
1 to 2 imperfect ones; empty glumes ovate, mucronate, striate; flowering glumes *8 in. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, glabrous without, sometimes minutely hairy within, mucronate, many- 
nerved; palea shorter than flowering glumes, oblong, acute, bifid at the apex, keels 
only very minutely ciliate near the tip, many-nerved between; rachille glabrous, club- 
shaped, short. Lodicules 3, two 78 in. long, somewhat one-sided, lanceolate, long 
fimbriate; the third ovate, acute, shorter; all many-nerved. Stamens hardly exserted, 
anthers long, rarrow, setose-apiculate. Ovary somewhat elongato, hairy above, the style 
soon dividing into three plumose stigmas. Caryopsis not known. 
Singapore: collected in 1890 by H. N. Ridley (No. 1693) at Bukit Timah. 
The very long smooth spikelet, bifid palea, long lodicules and remarkable ligule 
characterise this species, which I have placed next to В. Tulda, nutans and teres on 
account of the character of the spikelets, though the culm-sheaths are not known. 
РглтЕ No. 82.—Bambusa Ridleyi, Gamble. 1, leaf and flower branch; 2, part of 
flower spike—of natural size; 3, leaf-sheath; 4, spikelet; 5, flowering glume; 6, palea; 
7, lodicules; 8, anther; 9, ovary and stigmas—enlarged (from specimen in Singapore 
Botanical Garden Herbarium). 
5. BAMBUSA BURMANICA, n. sp. Gamble. 
A large handsome bamboo. Culms up to 50 or 60 ft. in height and 4 in. 
in diameter, dull green, strong, nearly solid; nodes not much swollen, marked by a 
white ring of hairs below them; internodes 12 іп, long or more. Cudm-sheaths of young 
plants green, turning yellow at the edges, covered with appressed golden hairs on the 
sides, glabrous on the back, rather broader than long, rounded above; imperfect blade 
short, broad, cuspidate, cordately rounded at base and then again widening out into 
large rounded fringed auricles; Пуше short, entire, Leaves of young plants 10 to 12 in, 
long, 15 to 2 in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, white-hairy on both surfaces, but less so 
above; Jeaf-sheaths striate, very pubescent, furnished with a large rounded fringed auricle; 
when older 8 to 10 in. long by 1 to 15 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, smooth above, whitish 
and pubescent beneath, unequally attenuate or rounded at base. into a very short 71 in, 
petiole, ending above in a subulate, setaceous, twisted, scabrous point, scabrous on the edges; 
main vein prominent, secondary veins 7 to 8, intermediate 5 to 8, many pellucid glands; 
leu f-sheath nearly glabrous, reddish-brown, keeled, ciliate on the edges, truncate at top with 
a small deciduous auricle and deciduous cilie; ligule short, minutely dentate. Inflorescence 
a panicle of spicate branches, bearing heads of few spikelets in the axils of smooth, 
1 in. long, truncate bracts; rachis slender, wiry, pubescent above. Spikelets up to 1 in. 
Jong, narrow, many-flowered; empty glumes 2, striate, minutely hairy within, mucronate; 
fertile flowers 5 to 6; flowering glumes ovate acute, mucronate, many-nerved ; palea ovate, 
elliptic, 2.keeled, white ciliate on the keels, 4 to 5 prominent veins between, edges 
overlapping; terminal 1 or 2 flowers imperfect; rachilla short, thick, glabrous except a 
ciliate ring at the top. Lodicules 3, two bluntly and oliquely truncate, thickened at 
base 5- to 6-nerved, the third rhomboidal, narrowed at base, thinner. Stamens with 
ñayra anthers ending in an apiculate point. Ovary stalked, cylindric, truncate, white- 
hairy on top; style very short; stigmas 3, pubescent. Caryopsis 3 in. long, smooth except 
the hairy top which is crowned by a persistent style, grooved on one side, 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Garp. Олісстта, Vor. УП. 
