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*of the mountains often to Ше entire exclusion of all other vegetation; in open 
* mountain tracts it generally grows to 6 to 8 ft. in height, but most close and 
*impenetrable, elephants even not attempting to get through it; inside sholas and on 
“their outskirts it grows to 15 ft. high, and is much more straggling. It is called Zr 
“by the natives and by Europeans the elephant grass.” Мг. Е. W. Bourdillon, Conservator 
of Forests in the Travancore State, who has kindly sent specimens of the leaves, culms, 
culm-sheaths and fruit, says also of it, “Ше Ее а or irá] reed is common up to 4,000 
“ft. and also in the low country. The culms attain a height of 20 ft. in favourable 
* circumstances, with a circumference of 7 inches. The internodes are sometimes 5 ft. 
“long. It flowers almost every 7 years and dies down. 18 .makes a splendid paper, and we 
“have a paper mill which uses it almost exclusively. Тһе fibre has been pronounced 
“superior to 'Esparto) Our only difficulty in connection with it is the great cost of 
* the chemicals required,” 
Brandis, writing of it under the name Jrakulli, says “it covers immense areas on 
“the top of the ghats above Courtallum at 2,500 ft" Не speaks of it again as climb- 
ing. Beddome expresses a doubt whether, considering the monadelphous stamens and the 
twisted stigmas, it should not form a new genus Jrulia. As iegards the stigmas, O. 
зи а has them also twisted, and as regards the monadelphous stamens the authors of 
the Genera Plantarum have not considered a new genus necessary, and note, what I 
find perfectly true, that the tube is ‘facillime jissus? It is a very remarkable bamboo 
in respect of its long culm-internodes, and large flowers and fruit. Of stamens I have 
counted up to 120 in one spikelet ! 
Var. hirsuta. The spikelets thickly clothed with light brown velvety 
pubescence ; leaves thicker, their edges more cartilaginous; leaf- 
sheaths with appressed hairs with bulbous bases. Collected in 
1869 by Beddome in the Travancore Hills. 
Prate No. 111.—QOchlandra travancorica, Bth. and Hook. fil. 1, leaf- and flower- 
branch; 2, culm-sheath—of natural size; 3, spikelet with bracts; 4, spikelets showing 
exserted stamens; 5, 6 & 7, empty glumes; 8, palea; 9, lodicules; 10, stamen; 11, ovary 
with style and stigma; 12 & 13, stigmas twisted and unrolled; 14, fruit—a more or less 
enlarged. (No. 2 from my own specimens ; Nos. 12, 13, 14, from Beddome’s figures; 
the rest from the sheet of Beddome’s type in the Madras Sd Herbarium.) 
Prarg No 112.—Var. hirsuta. 1, leaf- and flower-branch ; 2, flower-branch—of natur al 
size (from Beddome's specimens in the Madras Museum Herbarium). 
5. Оснілхркл Ввахотви, a. sp. Gamble. 
Culm апа culm-sheaths not known. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, thick; 10 
to 20 in. long, 15 to 3 in. broad; attenuated at the base into а short ‘2 to 3 
in. broad petiole, which is wriukled beneath; ending at the apex in a long, twisted 
subulate point; glabrous on both surfaces, whitish beneath, margins cartilaginous, smooth; 
mai vein thick, prominent, secondary veins 10 to 13 pairs, thick, intermediate 5 to 7, 
no regular transverse veinlets, but pellucid glands which give the appearance of transverse 
veinlets on the lower surface; /e«f-sheaths striate, ending in a smooth, rounded callus and 
produced at the mouth into short auricles fringed with a few stiff deciduous bristles; 
