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imperfect one with long produced rachilla; empty glumes glabrous, striate, ovate-mucronate; 
flowering glume similar but longer; palea similar but bi-mucronate, keeled above only 
and furrowed.  Lodicules 8, ovate-lanceolate ог obovate, 3- to 5-veined, ciliate on the 
edges. Stamens exserted; anthers short, greenish, rounded at the tip (Munro says 
‘apiculate,’ but I do not find them so) Ovary oblong, long-beaked, the зе included 
in the beak; stigmas 3, short, exserted, purple plumose. Caryopsis ovate, long-beaked 
(4 in. long, '2 in. broad, beak “5 ш.), beak much bent to опе side, surrounded by 
the persistent flowering glume and palea; pericarp crustaceous; seed rounded, embryo 
distinct, CHLooTHAMNUS CHILIANTHUS, Вше in Pl. Јипић. 387; Mig. Fl. Ind, Bat. i. 
415. Metocanna GRACILIS, Kurz, Munro in Trans, Linn, бос. xxvi. 199. BAMBUSA, Wall, 
Cat. 5032. 
Malaya: collected at Batang, Malacca, by Mr. Vaughan Stevens (No. 3947 of 
Botanic Garden, Singapore); at Singapore by Wallich. Also in Java and Sumatra. 
The Singapore specimens bear the name Bulu rappen, Kurz says it is Bulu akar. 
I have followed Kurz in identifying his Melocanna gracilis with Chloothamnus chilianthus, 
Визе, although Biise’s description does not agree in all particulars. (See also note in 
Benth. and Hook. fil Genera Plantarum, p. 1214.) 
Prate No. 101.— Schizostachyum chilianthum, Kurz. 1, leaf and flower specimen; 
2, young shoots showing culm-sheaths—of natural size ; 3, leaf-sheath ; 4 & 5, spikelet ; 
6, flowering glume; 7, palea; 8, stamen ; 9, Jodieule; 10, ovary with beak and stigmas ; 
11, caryopsis; 12, do. section; 13, seed—all enlarged. (No. 4 from Kurz drawing, No. 11 
from Kurz Java specimens, Nos. 12 & 13 from Kurz? Plate 2 in Ind. Forester. i. 219; 
rest from Stevens’ specimens.) 
3. SenuizosrACHYUM Вілмеі, Nees von Евепб. in Agrost, Bras. 535, 
An arborescent bamboo. Culms up to 30 ft. high, hollow, fragile, glabrous. Culm- 
sheaths cylindric, slightly attenuate to the truncate mouth with appressed white bristles, 
striate, mouth hispid, ciliate; imperfect blade leafy, erect; ligule narrow. Leaves 9 
‘to 10 in. long, 12 to 18 in. broad, those of sterile branches up to 16 in. long 
and 2:5 in. broad, oblong-lanceolate; rounded or narrowed at the base into a °3 
to '4 in, petiole; acuminate above in а subulate twisted point; rough on both 
surfaces, pubescent below scabrous on the edges; main vein narrow, secondary 
veins 5 to 6, intermediate 5 to 7; Jleaf-sheaths smooth, striate, keeled, mouth truncate 
and margins furnished with long, white, deciduous bristles; ligule short-fimbriate. 
Inflorescence a terminal panicle bearing clustered spikes with long spreading, erect or 
deflexed spikelets supported by chaffy bracts; rachis very thin, slender. Spikelets *6 to 
“7 in. long, very narrow, cylindrical, with 1 fertile flower ; empty glumes 2, oblong, long 
mucronate, striate, glabrous, separated from each other and from the flower by ciliate 
rachille ; flowering glume similar, but much longer; paleew 1 or 2, inner membranous, 
not keeled, convolute. odicuies none. Stamens exserted ; anthers green, elongate, blunt. 
Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous, surmounted by a long beak, the style with 8 
plumose stigmas. Caryopsis not seen. Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. ii. 1355; Kunth Enum. 
435; Rupr. Bamb. 43 i. xvi, хуй. fig. 4; Steud. Syn. 332; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat, iii. 
4294; Munro in Trans. Linn. Кос. xxvi. 196; Kurz in Ind. Forester i, 350. 
MELOCANNA TENUISPICULATA, Kurz in Bot. Gard. Buit. and Calc. i · 
