114 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA, 
13. Schizostachyum, Vees. 
Arborescent or shrubby bamboos, usually erect, sometimes climbing. Culms smooth, 
usually slender, walls thin.  Culm-sheaths shorter than internodes, cylindrical, furnished 
with small auricles and bearing a triangular or subulate imperfect blade. Leaves mode- 
rately broad to broad, petioled, smooth, without proper transverse veinlets. Inflorescence 
a terminal panicle of spicate branches, bearing heads of spikelets, often reduced to a 
spike of heads, which are sometimes very few; rachis slender. Spikelets slender, fasci- 
culate in heads, usually pedunculate, or 2 or 3 together, often long, cylindrical, 
sometimes short. Empty glumes 1 to 3, narrow, separated by rachille from each other 
and from the flowering glume, usually mucronate. Flowering glumes 1 or 2, articulate 
below, much imbricate, convolute. Palea similar to flowering glume, not keeled, but 
often furrowed, sometimes bi-mucronate, closely convolute, bearing a terminal rudimentary 
flower on а long rachilla. Lodicules 0 to 4, usually 3, narrow, lanceolate, faintly ciliate. 
Stamens 6, exserted; anthers narrow, obtuse or apiculate or penicillate, filaments free. 
Ovary narrow, enclosed in a crustaceous pericarp which lengthens into a beak enclosing 
the style, which divides at the top into 3, short, plumose stigmas. Caryopsis (where 
known) ovoid, beaked, the beak bent to one side, enclosed in a crustaceous separate 
pericarp, seed rounded, embryo distinct. 
Distrib.—Besides the five species herein described, there are about eleven others. 
Опе--8. parvifolium, Munro—occurs in Madagascar; another—S, dumetorum, Munro—in 
China; another —S. glaucifoliuu, Munro—in. the Pacific Islands; another—/S. acutiflorum, 
Munro—in the Philippine Islands; and seven more, viz.—S. elegantissimum, Kurz, 
S. Zollingeri, Kurz, S. brachycladum, Kurz, S. Irratun, Steud., S. longispiculatum, Kurz, 
S. serpentinum, Kurz, and А. Hasskarlianum, Kurz—in Java and the neighbouring islands. 
Some of these may possibly be indigenous in the Indo-Malayan region, but I hesitate 
to include them without more information as to their true geographical distribution. 
Analysis of the species. 
Spikelets in heads in terminal per uim 
Heads very few, 1 іо З . . c r^r cos а лы 12 SS zeque, 
Нема usually mote than Фо. . . . . . . . ... 2. S.ehihanthum. 
Spikelets in heads in panieulate spikes. 
Spikelets short, under T in. long . . . . . . . . . 8, 8, Blume. 
. Spikelets long, usually over 1 in. ius 
Glumes glabrous . . . . «е» у с: .. 4. 5 iatifolium. 
lumes hairy а WOW. o. v ро. а 9. лене 
1. SCHIZOSTACHYUM TENUE, л. sp. Gamble. 
А graceful, small, climbing bamboo. Culms reed-like, thin. Culm-sheaths not known. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 4 to 6 in. long, “9 to’-6 in. broad; narrowed 
at the base into a rather long :3 in. petiole; ending in а. long setaceous twisted 
point; smooth and glabrous on both sides; edges very faintly scabrous, somewhat 
cartilaginous; main vein prominent, shining, Mondes veins 3. to 5 pairs, intermediate 
