INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ ; GAMBLE. 125 
Ртлте No. 110.— ОсМапага Beddomei, Gamble. 1, 2, 3, 4, leaf- and flower-branches— 
of natural size; б, top of leaf-sheath; 6, spikelet; 7, empty glume; 8, flowering glume; 
9, palea; 10, lodicules; 11, stamen; 12, ovary and style; 18, stigmas—endurged. (АП 
from Beddome's specimens.) 
4. OCHLANDRA TRAVANCORICA, Bth. in Bth. and Hook fil. Gen. Plant. iii, 1915. 
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An erect, shrubby or arborescent, reed-like, gregarious bamboo. Culms 6 to 20 ft. 
high, grey-green, rough, 1 to 2 in. in diameter; nodes somewhat swollen and marked 
with the base of the fallen sheaths; internodes 15 to 2 ft., and longer (sometimes even 
5 ft, fide Bourdillon), walls very thin, “1 in.  Culm-sheaths 6 to 8 №. long, thin, 
longitudinally wrinkled and striate, when young covered with many appressed golden 
or black bulbous-based hairs, glabrous when old, truncately rounded above and furnished 
with a fringe of erect, ‘3 in. long, stiff bristles; ciliate on the margins; imperfect blade 
narrow, subulate 15 to 3 in. long; ligule narrow, entire. Leaves broadly oblong- 
lanceolate, 6 to 18 in. long by 2 to 45 in. broad; rounded often unequally at the 
base into a thick, broad, somewhat concave, *3 to “4 in. petiole; apex long setaceous 
acuminate, often scabrous, twisted; both sides glabrous or slightly rough, edges scabrous, 
especially on, one side, margin cartilaginous; main vein thick below, afterwards narrow, 
secondary veins 12 to 17 pairs, intermediate 6 to 8, no regular transverse veinlets, 
but frequent oblique pellucid glands which show as transverse veinlets on the under 
surface; leaf-sheaths striate, glabrous, keeled, ciliate on the edges, ending in a smooth, 
shining callus, and short fa'eate auricles, the mouth furnished with several, often 1 in. 
long, stiff bristles; ligule short, truncate. Inflorescence а sub-verticilate, spicate panicle 
with a few large fertile spikelets and a, few much smaller sterile ones, in the axils of 
ovate-lanceolate, smooth bracts which bear subulate, deciduous imperfect blades, Spikelets 
ovate or oblong-ovate, 2 to 2:5 in. long, 5 in. broad, glabrous, striate, supported by 2 
to 4 small sheathing bracts; empty glumes usually 3, lowest smallest, 12 in. long, thick, 
concave, ovate, truncate at top and tipped with a subulate apex; the next similar but 
thinner and longer; the third again similar but 2 in. long and long acuminate, not 
truncate; all three many-veined and faintly transversely veined; flowering glume similar to 
the last empty glume; palea rather shorter and narrower, thinner in texture, acute, 
not mucronate, faintly 2-keeled. Lodicules 3, lanceolate, unequal, one 2-cleft, very 
membranaceous, "5 to “б in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad, 3- to 7-nerved. Stamens very many, 
(up to 120), monadelphous, at first included, afterwards long exserted; filaments slender; 
anthers about `1 іп. long, narrow,  long-hairy-apiculate. Ovary narrow, smooth, 
surmounted by a tri- or quadrangular perigynium enclosing the style which at the top is 
surmounted by 5 to 6 plumose stigmas, which are spirally twisted together. Caryopsis 
very large, 2 in. long, ‘d to “б in. broad, brown, oval-oblong, wrinkled and surmounted 
by a conical, stiff, 2 in. long beak; pericarp fleshy, enclosing the oval-eiongate seed, the 
whole surrounded by the persistent giumes and palea. BEESHA TRAVANCORICA, Leddome 
Flora Sylv. cexxxiv tab. ccexxiv. Í 
Mountains of Southern India in Tinnevelly and Travancore at 3,000 to 5,000 tt. 
elevation ; planted in Madras and at Peradeniya in Ceylon. пи 
This is a magnificent and most interesting species, of which Из discoverer, Colonel 
В. H. Beddome, late Conservator of Forests in Madras, says: “it covers many miles 
