INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 71 
Throughout Burma, chiefly in mixed forests. Collected by Faleoner in Moulmein, 
Brandis in Houndraw valley and Toungnyo in 1880; Dr. Mason in Toungoo Hills 
in 1857; Kurz in Thaungyin and Pegu Yomas in 1871; J. W. Oliver at Pyinmana 
ш 1891; P. J. Carter in Pegu; W. T. McHarg in Tenasserim in 1899. 
This is the well-known Wapyugale (little white bamboo), also Радой of Tenas- 
serim, and it is easily recognized by its narrow, white-ciliate, curved spikelets, by the 
absence of a terminal imperfect flower, and by the long ligules of the culm sheath. 
From the dates given by collectors it appears to have flowered in 1857, 1871, 1880, 
1891-92." It is a species of very little value, and is even troublesome in the teak 
plantations. | 
PrarE No. 61.—Oxytenanthera albociliata, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
panicle,—of natural. size; 3 & 4, culm-sheath—reduced to half; 5, spikelet; 6, empty 
glume; 7, flowering glume; 8, palea; 9, palea of last flower; 10, staminal tube and 
anthers of lower male flower; 11, anthers; 12, ovary and stigmas—enlarged. (No. 3 
from Kurz figure in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta ; the rest 
from his Thaungyin specimens.) 
3. OXYTENANTHERA SINUATA, ñ. sp. Gambie. 
Culms and culm-sheaths not known. Leaves 10 to 12 in. long, 192 to 15 in. 
broad, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; rounded almost cordately at the base into а "5 in. 
long, broad, thick, hairy petiole; ending above in a scabrous, twisted, setaceous point; 
somewhat scabrous above, softly pubescent beneath, scabrous on the edges; main vein 
hardly prominent, secondary veins 10 to 12 pairs, intermediate 7 to 8; leaf-sheaths 
glabrous or slightly pubescent, faintly striate, keeled, ending in a narrow ciliate callus 
and bearing a few long deciduous bristles ; ligule rather short, thickly pubescent. Znflores- 
еспсе а panicle with spicate branches bearing round heads of sterile and fertile spike- 
lets; rachis sinuate, softly pubescent, joints “5 to 15 in. long; heads up to "5 in. in 
diameter; spikelets narrow, conical, "3 to "4 in. long, acuminate, minutely hairy, bearing 
2 to 3 empty glumes and then 2 to 3 fertile flowers; empty glumes ovate, mucronate, 
ciliate on the edges, many-nerved ; lowering glumes similar but longer, and longer 
mucronate, the uppermost convolute ; palea of lower flowers blunt or bifid, 2-keeled, 
ciliate on the keels, 2- to 3-veined between, that of upper flowers long-acuminate, 
glabrous, not keeled. Stamens exserted, tube at first thick, enclosing the ovary, afterwards 
elongate, membranous; anthers narrow, connective produced into а hairy acumen. Ovary 
‘broadly ovate, hairy, surmounted by a long hairy style and plumose stigma. Caryopsis 
not known. | 
Malaya: collected at Serumban in Sunjei Ujong in 1885 (Herb. Singapore). 
А very little known kind, said to be used for making baskets and to be called 
Poké, bulu miniak. I also consider Ridley’s specimens from Gunong Panti and Hulu 
Kahary, Johore, to belong to this, though they have only one fertile flower and a glab- 
rous spikelet. | 
Рглте No. 62.—Oxytenanthera sinuata, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch ; 2, flower branchlet-— 
of natural size; 3, spikelet ; 4, empty glume ; 5, flowering glume of uppermost flower ; 
6, palea of lower flowers; 7, palea of upper flowers; 8, staminal tube; 9, anther; 
10, ovary with style and stigmas—enlarged. | | 
