‚ INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. ' 117 
Malaya: collected by H. N. Ridley at Selitar, Singapore, in 1889. Also in Java 
up to 3,000 ft. (Kurz). 
Kurz says that this is common in Java along rivulets in the hills, and that it is 
called Bamboo ітғайт. The specimens available are all so young that I have had to 
take part of the dissections from Ruprecht’s excellent drawings of the spikelets. Тһе 
Singapore specimens have narrower leaves than those from Java, but they may be 
from upper branchlets. 
Prate No. 102.—Schizostachyum Biumet, Nees von  Esenb. l, leaf- and flower. 
branch; 2, part of young culm with culm-sheath—o/ natural size; 8, pair of spikelets ; 
4 and 5, empty glumes; 6, flowering glume; 7, palea; 8. ovary and beak; 9, 
stamens. (No. 8 from Ruprecht's drawing; the rest from Kurz specimen.) 
4. SCHIZOSTACHYUM LATIFOLIUM, m. sp. Gamble. 
Culms and culm-sheaths not known. Leaves 9 %о 12 in. long, 1:5 to 9% in. broad, 
oblong, acuminate, rounded at the base into a 3 in. long, broad, wrinkled petiole; 
ending above in а subulate, scabrous point; smooth on both surfaces and somewhat 
pale beneath, scabrous on the edges; main vein prominent below, secondary veins 
inconspicuous, 10 to 12 pairs, intermediate 5 to 6; leaf-sheaths striate, keeled, smooth, 
ending in a broad callus and large falcate auricle bearing long bristles; ligule short, 
long-ciliate. Inflorescence a terminal spicate panicle, 6 to 12 in. long, bearing clus- 
ters of spikelets mixed with ovate-lanceolate glabrous bracts; fertile spikelets in pairs 
or clusters, shortly pedicelled. Spikelets 1 to 14 in. long, long-acuminate, bearing 1 
fertile flower and 1 terminal very small imperfect one; empty glumes 2, oblong, long 
mucronate, striate, separated by a short rachilla; flowering glume much larger, ovate- 
lanceolate, long-mucronate, convolute, often ciliate on the edges above; palea 
lanceolate, bi-mucronate, faintly keeled or channelled on the back, much convolute. 
Lodicules З to 4, the 8 ordinary ones lanceolate, 3—5-nerved, “42 to *3 in. 1 ong, 
very faintly ciliate, the fourth apparently a modified stamen, 4 in. long. Stamens 
exserted ; anthers long, narrow, blunt at the top, the connective produced into a 
penicillate point. Ovary glabrous, narrowly-lanceolate, surmounted by a long glabrous 
beak enclosing the style which bears 3 plumose stigmas. Caryopsis not known. 
Malaya: collected by H. N. Ridley in 1891 at Kota Glanggi, Pahang (No. 5602). 
I also identify with this his No. 5598 collected at Tanjong Autan, Pahang, and 
his No. 5600 collected at Sungei Hudang, Malacca, in 1891, but the flowering 
glumes are rather more ciliate, and I only find one lodicule. This species is near 
S. longispiculatum, Kurz Ind. Forester i. 351, but differs in the presence of lodicules 
and in the penicillate instead of glabrous, bifid, anther points. 
Ртлте No. 103.—Schizostachyum latifolium, Gamble. 1, leaf- and flower-branch—of 
natural size; 2, empty glume; 3, flowering glume; 4, spikelet with flowering glume 
removed; 5, palea ; 6, lodicules; 7, anther; 8, ovary and beak with stigmas—a// enlarged | 
(from Ridley's No. 5602). | | 
5. SCHIZOSTACHYUM ACICULARE, Л. sp. Gamble. 
A small Лвов: Culms and culm-sheaths mot known. Leaves 6 to 9 in. long, 15 
to 9 in, broad, ovate-oblong, almost elliptic, cuspidate, rounded or attenuate at Ше 
