62 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
to the top of the sheath; ligule narrow, shortly fimbriate or loy dentate. Leaves oblong- 
anceolate, 10 to 15 in. long, 15 to 2:3 in. broad; narrowly attenuate at base with a 2 
to '3 in. petiole; ending in a subulate, setaceous, twisted, scabrous tip; glabrous above, 
hairy beneath when young, afterwards glabrous; scabrous on the margins; main vein 
narrow, pale beneath, secondary veins 8 to 12, intermediate 7 to 8; Jleaf-sheaths hairy: 
when young, somewhat keeled, striate, truncate at top and ending in a narrow callus 
and short, glabrous, rounded auricle, the margin produced to meet the ligule which is 
about *l in. long. Inflorescence а compound panicle of spicate branchlets bearing distant 
heads of few small spikelets; rachis smooth, slender, nearly solid. Spikelets ovate, sub- 
acute, "3 to `£ in. long with 2 to 4 fertile flowers ; empty glumes 2 to 3, broadly ovate- 
acute, minutely ciliate on the edges; flowering glume similar, many-veined, shortly mucro- 
nate, ciliate on the edges; palea shorter than flowering glume, oblong, 2-keeled, 
ciliate on the keels and between them, sometimes bimucronate, 3—5-nerved. Lodicules 
variable, usually 3 only in the uppermost fertile flower, 1 to 2 in the others, oblanceolate, 
fimbriate. Stamens exserted, tube membranous, anthers yellow, ending in a more or less 
hairy point. Ovary sub-orbicular, very hairy; s/yle narrow, rather short, pubescent, divid- 
ing into 2 to 3 white stigmas. GIGANTOCHLOA MAXIMA, Kurz in Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind, xxvii 
(1864) 226; Jnd, Forester i. 943. BAMBUSA YERTICILLATA, Willd. Spec. РІ, п. 245 
(1797). BAMBUSA PSEUDARUNDINACEA, Steudel Syn. 330. 
Wild, or more usually cultivated, in the Malay Peninsula, and throughout the 
Malay Archipelago, probably extending northwards to Tenasserim ; cultivated in the 
Calcutta Botanic Garden. | 
A species very striking from its light-coloured striped culms. The sheaths some- 
what resemble both those of Gigantochloa Atter and Dendrocalamus giganteus. Kurz 
gives the Malay names Bamboo andong, bamboo gombong, bamboo dyawa, also awie soorat 
(Sunda). Ridley’s specimen No. 119 collected at Twal, Singapore, and identified by 
Hackel, is said to be the Campong bamboo, | 
Рглте No. 59.—Gigantochloa verticiliata, Munro. No. 1, leaf branch; 2, flower 
branch—of natural size; 8—top of culm-sheath,—much reduced; 4—part of young shoot, 
reduced; 5 & 6, spikelet; 7, flowering glume; 8, palea; 9, staminal tube and anthers; 10 
lodicules and anthers; 11, ovary, style and stigmas; 12, leaf-sheath—enlarged, (Nos. 6, 7, 
8, 10, 11, Кап Kurz specimens; No. 1 from specimens collected in Royal Botanic 
Garden, Caleuttu; rest from Kurz drawings in the Herbarium of that Institution.) 
2. GiIGANTOCHLOA ScoRTECHINH, 2. 8р. Gamble, 
A tall gregarious bamboo. Culms 40 to 80 feet high, 4 to 6 in. in diameter. 
Culm-sheaths not known, Leaves 12 to 16 in. long, 1 to 15 in. broad, linear- 
lanceolate, often unequal sided; narrowly attenuate at the base into a “2 to "8 in. petiole, 
acuminate, the tip with a twisted scabrous point; smooth above, softly hairy pube- 
scent beneath; scabrous on the edges; main vein rather narrow, secondary veins 8 to 10, 
intermediate 7 to 8, transverse veinlets conspicuous, formed by pellucid glands joined 
obliquely to the veins on either side; Jeaf-sheaths densely pubescent, ending above in a 
pubescent callus and a small rounded auricle fringed with a few stiff short bristles, ciliate 
on the edges; ligule short, hairy. Inflorescence a large compound panicle of curved време 
branchlets bearing verticils of distichous heads, each head bearing 2 to 5 large fertile 
