194 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
14, stamen; 15, оуату—етатјеа (Nos. 4 and 5 from. а drawing by W. D. Alwis kindly 
lent by Dr. H. Trimen; the rest from Thwaites’ and Beddome’s specimens.) 
Var. maculata. А gregarious slender bamboo. Culms densely tufted from much- 
branched, scaly rhizomes; greyish-green, elegantly mottled with 
irregular rings, bands and blotches of dark purplish claret colour; 
rest like the type. TEINOSTACHYUM ? MACULATUM, TZrimen in Journal of 
Botany, 1885, 213. 
Trimen says of this, ‘‘ Forming jungle in several places in the districts of Amba- 
“ gamuwa, Ruanwelle, and regions to the south-west of Adam's Peak." First collected by 
Mr. С. J. Ferguson on Galbodde Теа Estate, owing to attention having been drawn to 
articles ornamented with the mottled stems and exhibited in Colombo in 1883. The 
specimens I have seen, as well as Trimen’s description and drawings, convince me that 
his suggestion to me, that his Te/nosíachyum maculatum is only a variety of Ochlandra 
stridula, is probably correct. Trimen says that specimens planted in the Royal Garden 
at Peradeniya “have nearly lost the mottling of their stems, and they will not flower." 
З. Оснгахрва DEDDOMEI, n. sp. Gamble. 
Culms and culm-sheaths not known. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 8 in. long, 1 to 
15 in. broad; rounded unequally at the base into a ‘2 in. long petiole; long-acuminate 
above with а twisted, scabrous, setaceous point; smooth above, except on the veins 
towards the edge, where scabrous; margins cartilaginous, revolute, one scabrous, smooth, 
and somewhat glaucous below; main vein narrow, secondary veins about 8 pairs, inter- 
mediate 6 to 7, transverse veinlets none; /eaf-sheaths striate, minutely pubescent, ciliate 
on the edges, ending in a narrow callus, the mouth bearing a few erect stiff pale bristles 
near the petiole and much decurrent bristly-ciliate auricles at the sides; ligule very narrow. 
Inflorescence a short, terminal, spicate panicle at the apex of a leafy branchlet, the 
spikelets few together in short-bracteate verticils; rachis short, faintly pubescent. Spikelets 
1 to 155 in. long, cylindric, conical, covered with scattered, stiff, bulbous-based, spreading, 
brown hairs, 2- to 3- bracteate at base; empty glumes 2, ovate, many-nerved, long-mucronáte, 
hirsute, outer 7° in. long, inner longer; flowering glume 1°3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, 
mucronate, glabrous, many-nerved; palea acute or blunt, very membranaceous, shorter than 
flowering glume, 1 in. long. Lodicules 5, all narrowly elongate, all different, one or two 
bipartite at the apex, '6 to ‘7 in. long and ‘05 to ‘1 in. broad, 3- to 7-nerved, glabrous 
or very faintly ciliate at the edges. Stamens many, about 32, exserted, filaments free; 
anthers narrow, straight, “5 to "6 in. long, bifid at apex and mucronate. Ovary glabrous, 
sub-orbicular, the beak of the perigynium produced in an angular style-sheath enclosing 
the style which is terminated by 5 to 6 plumose whitish stigmas, which before 
spreading out are close together in a narrow pencil. Caryopsis not seen. 
Wynaad in South India, 
Very little is known of this pretty species collected by Colonel В, H. Beddome 
in Wynuad. It is distinguished from 0. travancorica by the free filaments and bifid 
apex of the anthers, and by the peculiar decurrent bristly auricle of the hairy leaf- 
sheath. 
