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mixed with few small sterile spikelets; rachis pubescent, sinuate, sometimes flattened on 
one side, 1 to 2 in, between the heads. Spikelets of three kinds, large ones bearing fertile 
flowers, medium-sized bearing merely glumes without pale or with only rudimentary 
pale, and small sterile ones; fertile spikelets 7 to ‘9 in. long, 3 to 4 in, broad, 
flattened, ovate-acute, densely silvery grey pubescent, bearing 2 to 3 empty glumes, then 
3 to 5 fertile flowers, then one imperfect terminal flower; empty glumes ovate, mucronate, 
densely pubescent; flowering glume similar but longer, that of uppermost fertile flower 
convolute ; palea shorter than flowering glume, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels, 6-nerved 
between them, bifid at apex, uppermost one less ciliate. odicules none. Stamens exserted, 
tube thick at first, afterwards elongate, membranous but persistent, anthers light yellow, 
narrow, long apiculate. Ovary rounded, hairy above, style long, glabrous, ending in a 
bifid white hairy stigma. Сағуорѕіѕ glabrous, ellipsoid, ending in an obtuse, hairy 
truncate top and surmounted by the short persistent base of the style. 
Malay Peninsula, collected by the late Rev. Father Scortechini, also by H. Kunstler, 
Dr. King’s collector, at Ulu Kerling and Ulu Selangore in 1886 (No. 8572), also by 
L. Wray, Junior, in Upper Perak (No. 3433) in 1889. 
This must be a fine species. It is said to be gregarious, forming whole forests on 
flats and on the sides of hills at 400 to 600 ft. elevation. Wray gives the Malay name 
as ‘ Bulu Rayah) I am very glad to be able to dedicate his beautiful discovery to the 
late Father Scortechini, whose admirable work and boundless energy have done so much to 
make known the flora of the Malay Peninsula. 
Рілте No. 53.—Gigantochloa Scortechinit, Gamble. Хо. 1, leaf branch; No. 2, part of 
flower panicle,—of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5, palea and staminal tube 
with stigmas; 6, the same elongated; 7, terminal imperfect flower; 8, ovary, style and 
stigmas; 9, caryopsis (unripe); 10, leaf sheath—en/urged. (From Father Scortechini's 
specimens.) 
3. GiIGANTOCHLOA MACROSTACHYA, Kurz For. Fl. Burma її. 557, 
А large evergreen bamboo. Culms 30 to 50 ft. long, dark green when old, glaucous 
when young, especially below the nodes, sometimes striped, 2:5 to 4 in. in diameter, fistulose, 
the walls being 2 to 3 in. thick; nodes scarcely thickened, hairy; internodes 16 to 30 in 
long, lower ones shorter. Culm-sheaths rather short, 5 to 8 in. long, up to 14 in. broad, 
not much narrowed upwards to the truncate top, densely covered with appressed blackish 
deciduous hairs, subciliate at the edges; imperfect blade as long as or shorter than the 
sheath, reniform, acute, appressed-hairy beneath, less so above, rounded at the base, 
and then again produced into a broad (5 to 1 in.) wavy, long-fringed band ending in 
rounded auricles, sometimes somewhat decurrent; ligule narrow, entire or faintly toothed. 
Leaves thin, lanceolate, 6 to 15 in. long by 5 to 2 in. broad, attenuate or rounded at the 
base into a short, 1 in. long, often wrinkled petiole; produced above into а setaceous 
scabrous point; glabrous above except the scabrous points on the marginal nerves, 
whitish and minutely and softly puberulous beneath; scabrous on the margins; main 
vein rather narrow, secondary veins 5 to 13, intermediate 7; Jleaf-sheath hairy at 
first, afterwards nearly glabrous, somewhat keeled, ending in a rounded callus and 
having on one or both sides a small glabrous rounded auricle which is fringed with 
few very deciduous long се; in young specimens the auricle is much longer and more 
