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caryopsis filled with dry white pith, and found in the Moluccas from Amboina to 
Java. Kurz himself says of this plant (Jndian Forester, vol. i. p. 336)—“ no one will 
“be able to identify it, unless he studies the Moluccan species on the classical ground." 
Prate No. 106.—Melocanna humilis, Kurz. 1, leaf-branch; 2, culm sheath (from 
Kurz specimens). | 
Species ef Melocanna now referred to other genera. 
JM. gracilis, Kurz = Schizostachyum chilianthum, Kurz. 
М. Киггй, Munro = Lambusa schizostachyoides, Kurz. 
М. longispiculata, Kurz = NSchizostachyum Рите, Nees. 
15. Ochlandra, Thwaites. 
Shrubby, gregarious, reed-like bamboos. Culms small, thin-walled, erect, with rather 
long internodes. Culm-sheaths thin, persistent on Ше culm, auricles small. eaves like 
those of Bambusa, veins many, margins cartilaginous; leaf-sheaths striate, fringed; ligule 
short (in one species very long). Jnflorescence a terminal spike or spicate panicle on a 
leafy branchlet, spikelets in verticels, partly fertile, partly sterile. Spikelets 1-flowered, 
often very large. Empty glumes 2 to 5, variable, usually mucronate. Flowering glume similar 
to last empty glume, also mucronate, alea membranous, not keeled.  Lodicules from 1 
up to several, conspicuous. variable, usually appressed to the filaments. Stamens 
many, from 6 up to 120; filaments free or monadelphous, exserted ; anthers long, narrow, 
usually mucronate. Ovary narrow, style elongated, stigmas 4 to 6, plumose, before 
opening either close together or twisted. Caryopsis large or very large, ovoid, long- 
beaked, supported by the persistent glumes; pericarp very thick, fleshy. BEESHA, Munro 
én Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvi. 144. 
Distrib.—The seven species herein described belong: six to South India and ume 
and one to the Malay Peninsula. No others are kowi, a so far. 
TM Analysis of ike species. 
Stamens many. 
Ligules short. 
Filaments free. 
Spikelets glabrous or merely pubescent. 
о ње и о 1. О. Rheedii. 
Do. broad ues она ce quer 2. O. stridula 
Sci elets hirsute 42.02. 8, 0. Beddomei 
Filaments Бао spikelets "iy hug „тате 4. О, travancorica. 
Ligulsloeng . . . · с. + б, О. Brandieii. 
Stamens usualy 6. . рее № 6. О. Ridleyi. 
< + я 7. O. setigera. 
Ligules ghort, flowers Боа, Бати 
1 Оснгахова RHEEDH, Bth. and Hook. fil. Gen. Рі. 
` А gregarious, shrubby bamboo. Culms erect, up to 16 ft. long, smooth; nodes 
somewhat raised; internodes about 17 in. long, l in. in diameter, bearing persistent 
Axx. Вот. Bor. Garp. CALCUTTA, Vor. VII. 
