“INDIAN BAMBUSEE, GAMBLE. 115 
5 to 7, very distant transverse veinlets caused by pellucid glands; Jea/-sheaths smooth, 
striate, truncate at the mouth with a broad callus; ligule very narrow. Inflorescence 
a terminal spike of 1 to 3 heads bearing few йй: ts; rachis slender, curved; heads 
bracteate, with yellowish, mucronate, chaffy bracts. Spikelets narrow acuminate, about 
9 in. long, with 1 to 2 empty glumes, one fertile flower and a terminal small hairy 
imperfect flower; empty glumes ovate acute, mucronate, 5- to 7-veined; Jlowering glume 
similar but longer; palea longer than flowering glume, 2-keeled, the keels close 
together, glabrous, bi-mucronate. Lodicules 3, 2 in. long, ovate-acute, thickened below, 
3—ó-nerved, somewhat hairy within. Stamens exserted; anthers linear, rounded at the 
top. Ovary narrowly oblong, surmounted by a long beak, enclosing, but rather longer 
than, the style; stigmas 3, purple plumose. Caryopsis not known. 
Malaya: collected by H. N. Ridley in 1891, at Kwala Berar Pahang (No. 5596) 
and Bukit Toongul, Malacca (No. 5601). His specimen from Kota Tiuggi, Johore, is 
also this probably, but has rather larger and longer leaves, reaching 9 in. in length 
and ‘8 in. in breadth. 
I cannot help thinking that this may be the plant described as Schizostachyum elegant- 
issimum, Kurz in Ind. Forester i. 348= Bambusa elegantissima, Hassk. Pl. Jav. rar. 49— 
Beeshu elegantissima, Kurz, Munro in Trans. Linn, бос. xxvi 146; but the specimens 
in the Calcutta Herbarium do not agree very well, and I have therefore preferred 
to describe it afresh. It is near А. chilianthum, but is much more slender and has 
fewer heads, often reduced to 1 only. 
Рглте Хо. 100.—Schizostachyum tenue, Gamble. 1, leaf. and flower ^ branch— 
of natural size; 2, spikelet; 3, empty glume; 4, flowering glumo; 5, palea; 6, lodicules; 
7, anther; 8, ovary and beak with stigmas—a// enlarged (from  Ridley's Pahang 
specimens). 
2. SOHIZOSTACHYUM CHILIANTHUM, Kurz in Ind. Forester i. 348. 
A small, graceful, shrubby bamboo. Culms 6 to 8 ft. high, 6 to 8 in. in diameter, 
smooth, glossy ; nodes not prominent; internodes fistular, glabrous, with the flower- and 
leaf-bearing branchlets semi-verticillate together at the nodes with many small bract- 
like sheaths, branchlets curved, slender, smooth. Culm-sheaths glabrous, smooth, ciliate on 
the. edges, ending in a truncate mouth; imperfect blade erect, narrowly lanceolate, rounded 
at the base, hairy within and decurrent on the sheath in a long-fringed band ending 
in narrow auricles also long-fringed ; ligule narrow, long-fimbriate. Leaves 6 to 10 in. 
long, “7 to 1 in. broad, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate ; rounded or attenuate at the 
base into a ‘2 in. long petiole; ending іп а setaceous, twisted, scabrous point, 
sometimes even 1:5 in. long; somewhat rough above, pale and hairy on the midrib 
beneath, scabrous on the edges; main vein not prominent, secondary veins 4 to 6, 
intermediate 5 to 7, transverse veinlets formed by pellucid glands, few but conspicuous ; 
leaf: ‘sheaths striate, glabrous, ciliate at the edges, truncate at the mouth, with a narrow 
callus and short auricles, the mouth bearing long white (about 10) stiff deciduous 
bristles ; ligule very, short. Inflorescence a terminal spike of distant heads of spikelets, 
heads about *5 in. broad, few, rarely more than 5 to 6; rachis very slender, somewhat 
angled, grooved, glabrous. Spikelets 74 to “6 in. long, very narrow, acuminate, with 
1 fertile flower and sometimes a gemmiferous glume below and a terminal minute 
Ann. Вот. Bor. Garp. Carcurra, Vor. VII. 
