. INDIAN BAMBUSEE ; GAMBLE. 19 
Ritchie gave the vernacular name as Choomaree; Brandis’ specimens bear the names Chiwa, 
chiwan, chawa; Wroughton's and Wilkins’ specimens those of Huda, wdhe, manga, tandali. 
Ritchie says it is used for basket-work; Wroughton that it is one of the commonest bamboos 
largely cut and used for all purposes, but not really very good. I am not sure that the 
stigma is always undivided, for I have found some that separated on maceration, and I am 
rather in doubt whether Munro's specifie name should not have precedence. I cannot trace 
this species with certainty in Dalzell and Gibson's Bombay Flora, but it may be what is 
meant by the Chiwaree bamboo identified by him as Bambusa Arundo, Klein, Nees in 
Linnea, ix. 471, though Ше description does not agree. : 
PrarE No. 65.—Ozytenanthera monostigma, Beddome. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
panicle; 3, portion of culm with sheath; 4, culm-sheath—of natural size; 9, spikelet; 
6, empty glume; 7, flowering glume; 8, palea; 9, staminal tube and anthers; 10, 
anther; 11, ovary, style and feathery stigma; 12, caryopsis—enlarged, (No. 3 from 
fresh Bombay specimens; rest from Brandis’ Sattara specimens.) 
7. OxrrENANTHERA Stocks, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 130. 
A slender bamboo. Culms grey-green, glabrous or covered with close soft pubes- 
сепсе, solid or with а small cavity, with few branches from the nodes, which are 
marked by а ring and soft pubescence; internodes 6 to 12 in. long.  Culm-shea!hs 
6 to 9 in. long, 3 to 7 in. wide at base, tapering gradually upwards and воте- 
what concavely truncate at top; densely appressed brown hairy on the back, ciliate on the 
margins; imperfect blade subulate acuminate, rounded at the base, and again expanded 
into a rounded, waved, long-fringed auricle on the top of the sheath; ligule long, 73 
іп., deeply fimbriate, conspicuous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 4 {о 8 іп. long, :4 
to ‘7 in. broad, rounded or attenuate at the base into a very short *1 in. petiole; 
at top ending in a setaceous point; glabrous above, except near the edges where the 
veins are scabrous, glabrous or hairy below, scabrous on the margins ; main vein narrow, 
pale, shining beneath, secondary veins 5 to 6 with 6 or 7 intermediate, not prominent ; 
leaf-sheath striate, glabrous or at first pubescent, mouth somewhat produced; ligule rather 
long, dentate. Inflorescence а large panicle of spicate heads, with many closely-packed 
spinous spikelets, the heads supported by rounded chaffy bracts ; rachis smooth, striate, 
the distance between verticils 1 to 2 in.; heads 1 in. in diameter. Spikelets 4 105 
in. long, narrow, glabrous, mucronate, many fertile mixed with a few sterile. Empty 
glumes 2, ovate-mucronate, 5- to 7-nerved; then two hermaphrodite flowers; flowering glumes 
ovate, sub-acute with a strong mucro on the back; palea of lower flower as long as 
flowering glume, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels, 5-nerved between, blunt, that of upper 
flower concave, convolute, blunt. Stamens long exserted, tube rather persistent; anthers 
short, acute. Ovary ovoid, hairy, with sine "a style and undivided purple plumose 
) is not seen. Beddome FI. Sylv. ссхххш. 
E m by Stocks; by W. A. Talbot at Carwar in 1889, and at Coompta 
Өзек i : usually cultivated. 
а = 18 id very well known, but it ‘is recognized by the acute and not 
apiculate anthers and 2-flowered spikelets. I have, as did Brandis, examined | many 
spikelets without finding the 2- to 3-fid stigma. — All I have seen are undivided. T а 
gives the Капага name as Konda man, but says the commonest name is Mace (Més 2). 
I think that ап Ozytenanthera collected by myself in the S. E. Wynaad, Nilgiris, with 
Ах». Вот. Bor. Garp. Carcurra, Vor. УП. 
