INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 73 
narrow, erose, Leaves very variable in size, those of old culms often 8 to 12 in. 
long, 1 to 1:5 in. broad; lanceolate acuminate, rounded ог. unequally attenuate at the base 
into a '1 to 2 in. petiole; above ending in a sharp, twisted, setaceous point; glabrous 
above, and with scattered hairs below, especially when young, margins scabrous; main 
veins narrow, yellow, shining below, not prominent above, secondary veins about 8 to 10 
with 7 intermediates; no transverse veinlets, but few pellucid glands; Jea/-sheaths striate, 
often very hirsute, keeled, ending in a rounded callus, those of larger loaves produced at 
the mouth to meet the ligule, those of smaller leaves ending in falcate auricles with а 
few long, stiff, deciduous bristles; ligule variable, sometimes long, sometimes very narrow, 
Inflorescence a huge, often leafy, panicle, with spicate branchlets bearing heads of more 
or less closely-packed spikelets, supported by small ovate bracts; the heads near the 
main rachis very large, 15 to 2 in. in diameter, those at the ends of the branchlets 
small few-flowered, average heads about 1 in.; rachis smooth, striate. Spikelets often in 
pairs, "8 to 4 in. long, acute, pale, usually 1-flowered; empty glumes 2 to 3, ovate, 
mucronate, many-veined, sometimes ciliate on the edges; flowering glume ovate-acute, 
sharply and strongly mucronate, ciliate on the edges and somewhat pubescent near the 
top; palea concave, glabrous except the ciliate point, convolute, blunt. Stamens exserted, 
tube at first short and thick, afterwards elongated and very thin; anthers narrow, long- 
apiculate, the tip hairy. Ovary ovate-acuminate, produced into a hairy style which is 
divided at the top into З short plumose stigmas,  Caryopsis elliptic-oblong, 2 to °3 in, 
long, glabrous, except the long mucronate apex formed by the base of the style which 
is hairy, embryo conspicuous. Beddome РІ. Sylv. сохххїї, tab, сссххи. DENDROCALAMUS 
MONADELPHUS, Thwaites Enum. Plant. Zeyl. 376. 
South India and Ceylon at from 3,500 to 6,000 feet elevation. It occurs in 
abundance in places оп the Nilgiris, such as in ravines below Coonoor, Kotagiri, 
Melkunda, Sispara, in the Ochterlony Valley, «е. It is also found in the Anamalai 
and the Palghat Hills and the hills of Travancore. It was also collected by Beddome 
in Kurnool. I have also specimens from Wynaad collected by Mr. Rhodes Morgan, 
and specimens from Travancore from J. Е. Bourdillon, Trimen’s Ceylon specimens came 
from Rangula Hill, 4,000 feet, 
It is at once recognized by its whip-like climbing branches and long-ciliate 
sheaths. I have examined an immense number of spikelets, but cannot find one which 
has more than one flower, although Beddome says 1 to 3 are fertile, Beddome says 
that in the Anamalais it is called Watte, and that the leaves are used for thatching; 
I never heard of its being used for any purpose on the Nilgiris, It is very frequently 
in flower, and I am not sure that it dies down after flowering. Wight’s specimens were 
collected in Nilgiris in 1847 and 1851; C. B. Clarke's at Coonoor in 1870; G, King's 
іп Ochterlony+ Valley in 1878; Beddome's in the Anamalais in 1865 and 1871; my own 
in various places in 1883 and 1889. In flower it much resembles Dendrocalamus strictus, 
and it is said by Munro to be this plant which is represented as that species in Plate 
70 of Roxburgh's Coromandel plants; but it must, however, be noted that the Plate does 
not show monadelphous stamens, In my opinion it merely represents a poor specimen 
of Dendrocalamus strictus. 
Puare Хо. 64.—Ozytenanthera Thwaitesit, Munro, 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
panicle—of natural size; 3, culm-sheath ; 4, culm-sheath of young shoot—somewhat reduced г, 
spikelet; 6 & 7, empty glumes; 8, flowering glume; 9, palea; 10, staminal tube (young) 
Ахх. Вот. Bor. Garp. Catcurra, Vor. VII. 
