48 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
10, anther; 11, ovary, style and stigmas. (Fig 4. from a picture by W. D. Alwis kindly 
lent by Dr. Н. Trimen of the Peradeniya Botanic Gardens; the rest, except 6, from 
fresh Calcutta specimens.) 
SECTION IV. 
16. BAMBUSA SCHIZOSTACHYOIDES, Kurz MS. 
An evergreen, arboreous, tufted bamboo. Culms 20 to 30 ft. high, З to 4 in. in diam- 
eter, green, glossy; nodes not thickened; internodes 1:5 to 2 ft. long, walls very thin; 
branches 1 to 4 from each node, leaf-bearing below, flower-bearing above. Oulm-sheaths 
unknown. Leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 4 to 7 in. long, “5 to 1:8 in. broad, 
rounded or attenuaie below into а short 1 in. petiole; above ending in a subulate, 
twisted, scabrous point; scabrous above along marginal veins and hairy near the base, 
otherwise smooth; pale and glabrous beneath; scabrous on one or both edges; main 
vein shining, conspicuous, secondary 5 to 6, intermediate 5; leaf-sheaths striate, hispid 
at first, then glabrous, ending abruptly without callus, and furnished with 6 to 10 long, 
white, twisted, stiff bristles on a long faleate auricle, ciliate at the edges; ligule long. 
. Inflorescence а spicate terminal panicle, bearing bracteate heads of few spikelets; bracts 
narrow, smooth, truncate or acuminate; rachis truncate, pubescent, joints about 1 in. 
long. Spzkelets smooth, cylindric, “5 to “б in. long, bearing 1 to 2 empty glumes, then 
2 to З fertile flowers, then a terminal imperfect one, rachille short, glabrous; empty glumes 
ovate, mucronate, many-nerved; flowering glumes similar but longer, “4 in. long, rough 
above; palea narrow, acuminate, membranous, “5 in. long, 3-nerved on the back, ciliate 
оп the keels, Lodicules 0 to 3, often wanting, when present lanceolate, rather blunt, 3- to 
5-nerved, shortly ciliate, one much largér than the others. Stamens scarcely exserted; 
anthers purple, 2 to "3 in. long, cells unequal, roughly apiculate. Ovary stalked, hairy, 
narrowly elliptic, flattened and somewhat triquetrous, gradually narrowed upwards into a 
long style, dividing into З minutely hairy stigmas. Cuaryopsis obliquely oblong, nearly 
'3 in. long, smooth, ending in a long stiff beak. (СЕРНАТОЗТАСНУОМ SCHIZOSTACHYOIDES, 
Kura For. ЕР. Burma, 565. Metocanna? Kura, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 134. 
Tropical forests of South Andaman; found by Kurz at Macpherson’s Straits. 
The genus to which this species belongs had been somewhat in doubt; but the ques- 
tion was set at rest in the ‘Genera Plantarum,’ in which Bentham and Hooker fil. finally 
decided it to be а Bambusa. It is one of the few bamboos known to grow in the 
Andaman Islands, and is remarkable for its narrow, acuminate, membranous palea, and 
long apiculate anthers. | | 
Pirate No. 44.— Ватђиза schizostachyoides, Kurz. 1, leaf-branch; 2, flower-bearing 
branch—of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5, flowering giume; 6, palea; 
T, lodicules; 8, anther; 9, ovary and stigmas; 10, leaf-sheath—enlarged. (АП from 
Kurz specimens.) | 
SECTION V, 
17. BAMBUSA GRIFFITHIANA, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 99. 
А sübsceandent, soft bamboo. Culms slender, hollow.  Cu/m-sheaths not known. Leaves 
large, l to L5 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate; unequally narrowed 
at the base into a short 2 in. thick petiole; ending in a subulate, twisted, scabrous point; 
