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short, minutely pubescent. Znflorescence a large compound panicle of време branches 
bearing heads of spikelets; heads with few fertile flowers, several sterile flowers and 
many short bracts; rachis slender, somewhat grooved, minutely pubescent, joints somewhat 
curved from 2 in, down to 5 in. in length, Spikelets conical, somewhat flattened, "7 
to 8 in. long, 2 in. broad, acute, bearing 2 to 3 empty glumes and 3 to 4 fertile 
flowers; empty glumes oval, mucronate, striate, fringed with stiff blackish-brown hairs ; 
Slowering glumes similar but loñger, and longer mucronate; palea narrow, oblanceolate, 
bifid at apex, 2-keeled, keels not or only very faintly ciliate, 5- to 7-nerved. Lodicules 
none. Stamens exserted, tube thick at first, afterwards long membranous; anthers very 
long, narrow, ending in a long hairy setaceous point. Ovary narrowly ovate, hairy, 
surmounted by a long, very slender, pubescent siyle and a broadly plumose stigma. 
Caryopsis not known. А 
Malaya: collected at Bakit Gantang, Perak, by L. Wray, Jr, іп Мау 1888. 
This species, which ought to be a fine one, but of which по information is 
available except that it grows in the plains and has culms 3 in. in diameter, is 
known as Bulu Plang. The long ciliæ of the leaf-sheath and the almost complete 
absence of cili; to the palea are its chief characteristics. 
Рілте No. 55.— Gigantochloa Wrayi, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower-panicle 
—of natural size; 8, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5, palea; 6, staminal tube and stigma; 
7, anther point; 8, ovary, style and stigma—en/arged. (АП from Wray’s specimen.) 
9. GIGANTOCHLOA Kurz, п. sp. Gamble. 
Habit and culms mot known. Culm-sheaths glabrous, cylindrical, about 6 in. long 
by 3 in. broad, truncate at top; imperfect blade longer than sheath, recurved, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, decurrent in a narrow, black, glabrous band lining the top of the 
sheath and ending in a small, round, naked auricle; ligule narrow. Leaves linear- 
lanceolate, 8 to 13 in. long, 9 to 15 in. broad, attenuate at the base into a '2 in. 
long petiole; glabrous above, except the scattered scabrous points on marginal nerves, 
whitish and with scattered hairs beneath, scabrous on the edges; main vein narrow, 
secondary veins 9 to 11, intermediate 7 to 8; Jeaf-sheaths appressed-hairy when young, 
then smooth, truncate above and furnished with small rounded auricles; ligule short, 
Inflorescence a leafy panicle of spicate branchlets bearing distant heads of 2 to 3 spikelets 
in the ахі] of a smooth narrow bract; rachis slender, striate. Spikelets *4 to -5 
in. long, acute, conspicuously fringed on the edges of the glumes; empty glumes 2 to 
3, ovate, mucronate, thickly brown-ciliate on the sides and edges, many-nerved; 
fertile flowers 2 to 3; flowering glumes similar to empty glumes but longer, narrower, 
and with a longer mucro; palea linear, blunt, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels, 3- to 
5-veined; terminal flower incomplete. Zodicules not found. Stamens with tube short, 
thick; anthers about 72 in. long, blunt, apiculate; ovary elongate, stalked, minutely hairy, 
ending in a long simple style, with a plumose stigma. Caryopsis (young) oblong, truncate 
inted below, glabrous. 
ii аш айл Burma and the Malay Peninsula: collected in Tenasserim by 
Kurz on his last voyage іп January-February 1878 under the name of Коай; also 
in Perak in 1892 by H. N. Ridley (Хо. 3114) under the name Buly akar (Malay) 
and by L. Wray, Jr, at Thaipang, Perak, under the name Ваш mata kusa or ‘deer's 
eye bamboo. 
Ayn. Вот. Bor. Garp. Carcurra, Vor. УП. 
