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Heads many-flowered (South Indian species). 
Spikelets 1-flowered. 
Style hairy . . 5. 0. Thwaitesii. 
» glabrous . 6. 0. monostigma. 
Spikelets 2-flowered . . . 4. О. Stocksit. 
» З-Шочегей . . 8. 0. Bourdilloni. 
l. OXYTENANTHERA NIGROCILIATA, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 128. 
An evergreen tufted bamboo. Culms 30 to 40 ft. high, 5 to 2 in. in diameter, usually 
dark green, sometimes marked with longitudinal yellow stripes; nodes prominent; internodes 
scabrous, rough above. Culm-sheaths about 6 in. long, striate, ciliate at the edges, covered 
on the back with appressed stiff brown hairs, slightly narrowed upwards, truncate at the top; 
imperfect blade ovate-lanceolate, decurrent on the sheath, and furnished on either side with a 
bright green, rounded, naked auricle, hairy within; ligule narrow, faintly toothed. Leaves 
6 to 12 in. or more long, 1 to 2 in. broad, lanceolate; unequally rounded at the base or 
attenuate into а ‘2 to '3 in. petiole; ending above in a subulate twisted point; somewhat 
rough above, pale and smooth and at first pubescent beneath, scabrous on one margin; 
main vein prominent, secondary veins 9 to 12, inconspicuous, transverse veinlets none, 
but pellucid glands which appear beneath like transverse veinlets; Jeaf-sheaths stiff, hairy 
at first, afterwards smooth, ciliate at the edges, produced at the mouth and furnished 
with small, naked, rounded auricles ; ligule narrow. Inflorescence a large compressed, 
sometimes leafy, panicle of spicate verticils ; rachis pubeseent especially above, striate, 
1 to 3 in. between verticils; spikelets usually few in the verticils. Spikelets narrow, 
cylindric, 1 in. long by `1 to :2 in. in diameter, conspicuously black- or purple-fringed 
at the edges of the glumes, sometimes curved; bearing empty glumes 2 to 3, fertilo 
flowers 2 to 3, and а terminal imperfect flower; empty glumes ovate-acute, mucronate, 
ciliate on the edges, many-veined; flowering glume lanceolate, acuminate, long-mucronate, 
ciliate on the upper margins, many-veined; palea shorter than, or as long as, the 
flowering glume, narrow, obtuse or acute or bimucronate, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels 
and 9- to 3-veined between them, that of uppermost flower convex, glabrous.  S/amens 
exserted, tube. at first thick, afterwards elongated, membranous ; anthers 73 to *4 in. long, 
narrow, purple, ending in a long hirsute point. Ovary narrowly ovoid, acuminate, pubescent, 
style slender, stigmas 1—3, plumose, short. Caryopsis linear-oblong, “6 in. long, 1 in. broad, 
glabrous, truncate at the top and with a short penicillate beak, grooved on the back, | 
. embryo conspicuous. Beddome РІ. Sylv. ccxxxiii. BAMBUSA wIGROCILIATA, Ризе in Pl. 
Jungh. i. 389; Miquel Flora Iud. Bat., vol. ІП, 416; Walpers Ann. iv. 1045. BAMBUSA 
Birowo, Hassk. РІ. Jav. Бағ. 42. ВамвовА GRACILIS, Wall. Cat. 5033.  GricANTOCHLOA 
NIGROCILIATA, Kurz Ind. Forester i. 345. G. anpamanica, Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii, 556. 
Orissa, Chittagong, Burma, Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula, extending to 
Sumatra and Java. Said also to occur іп Coorg and Canara, but this requires 
further investigation: the specimens were collected by Hohenacker and by по one 
else. Collected by Helferin Tenasserim; also by Falconer in 1849; also by С. King 
on Pagoda Hill, Moulmein, іп 1879; by Kurz in S. Andaman, and by А. Г. Home 
in the Andamans in 1875; by myself in Kasalong valley, Chittagong (not in flower), 
in 1880. 
