100 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
at Peermaad in 1887; and leaf specimens have been collected by W. А. "Talbot 
at the Gairsoppa Falls in N. Kanara, by myself in the Ochterlony Valley and on 
the Carcoor Ghat, Nilgiris, and by J. A. Bourdillon on the Travancore Hills іп 1892. 
Bourdillon says that in Travancore it flowered in 1887 to 1859 and died off, new young 
seedlings at once springing up. I cannot agree with Beddome in identifying this 
species with Bambusa Wighti, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi 111, which is 
characterized by very glabrous leaves and very long ligules. Wight’s plant is, I believe, an 
Ochlandra, and is herein described ав Ochlandra Brandisii, п. sp. 
Puare No. 87.—TZeinostachyum Wightii, Beddome. 1, leaf- and flower-branch; 2, 
part of flowering panicle—of natural size; 3, culm-sheath— reduced ; 4, bract; 5, spikelet; 
6, flowering glume; 7, palea; 8, lodicule; 9, anther; 10, ovary with persistent lodicules, 
style and stigmas; 11, caryopsis (young)—enlarged. (АП from my own specimens.) 
3. ТЕТХОЗТАСНУОМ ATTENUATUM, Munro in Trans. Linn. Кос. xxvi. 148. 
A medium-sized, tufted bamboo. Culms 12 to 25 ft. long, 5 to 1 in. in diameter, 
filiform-wiry at the юр; nodes bearing many branches. Culm-sheaths pale, appressed 
hairy. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, “6 to 1 in. broad, lanceolate acuminate, rounded 
at the base into a thickened “1 to :3 in. long petiole; ending above in a twisted, 
scabrous, subulate point; slightly rough above, smooth and pale beneath; main vein hardly 
prominent, secondary veins 3 to 4 pairs, inconspicuous, intermediate 5 to 7, rather thick, 
with no transverse veinlets but lines of pellucid dots between; leaf-sheaths sparingly 
appressed-pilose, ciliate at the edges, truncate at the mouth and fringed with deciduous 
ciliæ; ligule short, glabrous, entire. Inflorescence usually in short, spiciform, leafy panicles 
elustered at the nodes, the end branches sometimes prolonged with verticillate clusters of 
spikelets, the clusters subtended by a smooth, mucronate bract and containing several 
sterile spikelets with a few longer fertile ones, often curved ; rachis smooth, swollen 
above. Spikelets glabrous, narrow, 1 in. long,'2 in. broad, bearing l empty glume, then 
2 to 3 fertile flowers, then 1 to 2 imperfect flowers; rach?lla round, smooth, thickened 
above; empty glume ovate-mucronate, 3 in. long, 7-nerved, ciliate on the edge ; lowering 
glume similar but longer and 9- to ll-nerved; palea smaller than flowering glume, 
2-keeled, minutely ciliate on the keels. Lodicules lanceolate, “15 in. long, 3-nerved, 
ciliate at the tip. Stamens exserted, filaments long, twisted, anther rather short, bluntly 
mucronate. Ovary ovoid-acuminate, glabrous, produced into a long style, divided at about 
2 of the way up into З long plumose purple stigmas. Caryopsis attenuate at both ends, 
glabrous, rostrate. Beddome Flora Sylv. ecxxxiv. BAMBUSA ATTENUATA, Thwaites Enum. 
Plant. Zeyl. 379. 
Ceylon, in the Central Province at 4,000 to 6,000 feet; collected by Thwaites 
(No. 3255) in 1864, by T. Thomson, and by Н. Trimen in Ohiya Valley, 1890. 
This species is distinguished from T. б? ІЛ by the shorter spikelets and ciliate 
lodicules, from 7, Wightii by the smaller leaves and quite different inflorescence. 
Ртлте No. 88.—T'einostachyum attenuatum, Munro. 1 9, leaf- and flower-branches— 
of natural size; 3, spikelets, one fertile, one sterile; 4, empty glume; 5, flowering 
glume; 6, palea; 7, lodicule; 8, anther; 9, ovary with style and stigmas enlarged (All 
from T. Thomson’s or Thwaites’s ико 
