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long as the sheath, triangular, cuspidate, convolute, striate, thickly covered with tawny 
bristles on both sides, slightly rounded at base and decurrent on the sheath in a narrow 
band ending in a rounded auricle, the band and auricle lined with a row of stiff long 
bristles bent in the middle; ligue very narrow, dentate, long fimbriate, Leaves 5-6 
together at the ends of the branchlets, thin, linear-lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. long, '8 to *5 
in. broad; abruptly rounded at the base into a very short, glabrous petiole; ending 
above in a twisted scabrous point; glabrous above, glabrous and glaucous beneath; scabrous 
on the edges; main veins prominent beneath, secondary veins 5 to 7, intermediate 7 
to 9; leaf-sheaths striate, covered with appressed hairs, keeled, ending in а small, 
recurved, ciliate callus, and furnished at the mouth with a few, slender, deciduous bristles ; 
ligule short, truncate, fimbriate. Inflorescence a large branching terminal panicle, bearing 
spicate branchlets with heads containing many imperfect and few fertile spikelets; 
rachis smooth, slender. Spikelets 1 to 15 in. long, compressed, narrow, slender, bearing 
2-3 empty glumes, 6 to 8 fertile and 1 to 2 terminal imperfect flowers; empty glumes 
ovate-acute, 3- to 7-nerved, glabrous; flowering glume ovate, acuminate, 7-8-nerved; 
palea as long as, or longer than, flowering glume, broad, concave, 2-keeled, ciliate on the 
keels, blunt. Lodicules 3, obovate, long-ciliate, many-nerved, and thickened at the base. 
Stamens little exserted; anthers blunt, obtuse. Ovary ovate, rounded, glabrous, ending in 
a short style, surmounted by З plumose stigmas, afterwards stalked. Caryopsis obovate, 
shining above, tipped with the bases of the 3 stigmas. Kunth Елит. 431; Munro in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xxvi 101; Kurz т Ind. Forester i. 340. В. вРТМОВА, Bl. in litt, ad. Nees von 
Esenb. in Bot. Zeit. 1825, p. 580. ІвснгкоснгоА spinosa, Вйзе т Ми. Pl. Jungh, 389. 
ScuizostacuyuM Durie, Rupr, Damb. 46. 
Pahang; collected by H. R. Ridley. Also in Java, Sumatra, Borneo and elsewhere 
in the Moluccas. 
This species is easily distinguished from B. arundinacea by the long spikelets, different 
culm-sheaths and fimbriate ligules. The culm-sheaths have the same coriaceous texture 
and dull colour as those of B. arundinacea, but the long-fringed auricles and ligules and 
bristly back distinguish them. Munro doubts if it is not the same as B. agrestis, 
Poir., but on reading the description of the latter, I am of opinion that it differs, so 
that I do not quote that species as а synonym. Blume and Kurz give the Malay 
names of bamboo durie and лошег fjutjuk. The Pahang locality brings it within the 
region to which this work relates. 
— Prae No. 47.—Bambusa Blumeana, Sch. 1, leaf-branch; 2 & 3, flowering branches— 
of natural size; 4, culm-sheath—reduced ; 5 & 6, spikelets; 7, flower; 8, flowering glume ; 
9, palea; 10, lodicule; 11, anther; 12 & 13, ovary, style andstigmas—a// enlarged (from 
Kurz’ Java specimens). 
20. BAMBUSA ARUNDINACEA, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 245 (1799). 
A tall, graceful, thorny bamboo with curving branches from a thick central root- 
stock. Culms bright green, shining, variable in length, but in large specimens reaching 80 
to 100 ft. high and 6 to 7 in. in diameter, branched from the base, the lower joints 
giving out long horizontal shoots armed at the nodes with 2 to 3 recurved spines and with 
few leaves; nodes prominent, lower ones rooting; internodes variable in length, up to 18 
in, long, often faintly angular, and in smaller culms flattened on one side, walls thick, 
1 to 2 in., cavity small Culm-sheaths coriaceous, orange-yellow when young, often striped 
Ann. Roy. Вот. Gag. Сагсстта, Vor. VII. 
