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long and up to 3 in. broad; those on older branches and flowering branches 10 to 12 
in. long by 1 to 15 im. broad ; stiff, brittle, dull green above, pale beneath, ovate- 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate ; unequally rounded at the base into a very short (1 to 
2 in.) broad petiole; above ending in a long, twisted, scabrous point ; glabrous above and 
beneath, except for scabrous points on the marginal veins above ; scabrous-serrate on the 
edges ; secondary veins 8 to 12, intermediate 5 to 7, many pellucid glands which 
give the appearance of transverse veinlets beneath; Jea/-sheaths striate, hairy, koeled, 
truncate at top with no or only a very small callus, ending in long, falcate, 
deciduous auricles which are fringed with long stiff bristles ; ligule short, very long and 
stiffly fimbriate. Inflorescence a terminal spike or panicle at the ends of leafy branchlets, 
bearing clusters of sessile spikelets supported by a truncate bract; rachis rounded or 
flattened on one side, striate. Spikelets ovate-acute, 74 to *5 in. long, about '2 in. broad, 
much compressed, and often spirally twisted, bearing usually 1 to 2 empty glumes, 
then about 10 fertile flowers, then a terminal imperfect flower; rachille short, glabrous ; 
empty glume ovate, long-mucronate, 5- to 7-veined ; flowering glume similar but longer, 
and white-ciliate on the margins; palea a little shorter than the flowering glumes, 
narrow, 2-keeled, minutely ciliate on the keels, sometimes bifid at the apex. Lodicules 
apparently none. Stamens exserted; anthers narrow, tho connective apiculate with a - 
penicillate point; filaments often apparently monadelphous but separable. Ovary oblong, 
whitish, pubescent, gradually passing into an elongated style which is finally divided 
into three purple plumose s/igmas. Caryopsis not known. Bampusa RUMPHIANA, Kurz іл 
Journ. Аз. Кос. Beng. xxxix. (1870), 86; Ind. Forester i. 341. Leesa LINEATA, 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. vi. tab. 1, p. 5. Лева RUMPHIANA, Kurz іп Cat. Hort. Bogor, (1866), 
20. Вамвоза Amanussana, В. ATRA, В. раста, В. Prava, ТА, (according to Munro and 
Kurz.) 
Throughout the Malay Archipelago and the Moluccas, extending northwards to the 
Andaman Islands, where it was gathered at Rutland Island by Dr. Prain in December 
1890. Cultivated in the Botanic Gardens at Buitenzorg, Java; at Peradeniya, Ceylon, 
and at Calcutta. It is found in marshy coast forests. 
This is a very remarkable species, which Kurz thought would prove to belong to a 
new genus when the caryopsis is found. It is characterized by its shrubby habit; con- 
stant flowering; many-flowered, long-mucronate, Bromus-like spikelets; brittle leaves and 
peculiar culm-sheaths. Kurz in Jnd. Forester i. 341, enumerates 5 varieties bearing 
the Malay names of Leleba dychat, pootee, ietam, tootool, soorat. I think that the name 
of B. lineata must take precedence of Kurz’ name of В. Rumphiana, much as it may be 
regretted; for Rumphius called it Zelba lineata, and Munro published it as Bambusa 
lineata in the same year (1866) in which Kurz gave it the name of Zelba Rumphiana. 
I have examined many flowers and failed to find the lodicules, but in a picture by 
Kurz in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, there are given what I 
take to be intended for small acute glabrous lodicules, though they may be the bases of 
the filaments which have themselves disappeared. Тһе fruit also is not known and should 
be searched for; for though constantly found in flower in the Botanic Gardens at Caleutta 
and Peradeniya, it has not yet been known to produce seed. 
Prate No. 43.—Bambusa lineata, Munro. 1, leaf and flower branch; 2, leaf-sheath ; 
3 & 4, culm-sheaths, outside young and inside older—of natural size; 5, spikelet ; 
6, spikelet, from a Ceylon specimen; 7, empty glume; 8, flowering glume; 9, palea; 
