: INDIAN ВАМВГЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 127 
ligule very long, 1 in, or more, membranaceous, acute. Inflorescence а vcrticillate, terminal 
spike with thick rachis, spikelets several in vertieils in the axils of ovate, glabrous 
biaets. Spikeiets glabrous, 1 to 15 in. long, °З to *4 iu. broad, conical, striate, supported 
at the base by 3 to 4 small chaffy scales; empty glumes up to 4, the two outer thicker, 
ovate truncate, with a subulate point; the other thinner, ovate acute, mucronate; all 
many-veined and glabrous; flowering glume thin, membranaceous, *8 in. long, similar to 
last empty glume, many-veined and transversely veined; palea similar again but smaller. 
Lodicule 1, large, “5 to "6 in, long, `1 to :2 in. broad, many-nerved, truncate and 
retuse at the tip. ¿mens many, up to 60; filaments short at first, afterwards elongated ; 
anthers narrow, long-apiculate. Ovary glabrous, perigynium thickened, and enclosing 
style which is surmounted by 5  plumose зйутаз, Curyopsis not known. BAMBUSA 
ХҮтвнтп, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi, 111. 
Tinnevelly Ghats in South India at Courtallum, up to 3,000 feet. Collected by 
Wight in 1832 (No. 1009) and by Brandis in flower іп 1882. 
І have no hesitation in considering Munro's Bambusa Wight of which the Calcutta 
Herbarium has a specimen with Munro's identification, to be this, and not, as Beddome 
supposed, Тетозасйуит Уши. Тһе very long membranaceous ligules are mentioned 
with great stress by Munro, nnd are most characteristic. I am not quite sure about 
the lodieules, the material at my disposal being insufficient; but I believe I am right in 
thinking that there is only one, and that very large. The bamboos of Courtallum 
require further investigation very badly, and I feel sure that that place, probably one 
of the most interesting of the special botanical collecting grounds of India, if thoroughly 
studied, will give some important information regarding South Indian bamboos, especi- 
ally of the genera OcAlandra and Ozytenanthera. 
Prate Хо, 118.— О Манга Brandisii, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower-spike 
— ој natural size; 3, spikelet; 4 & 5, empty glumes; 6, flowering glume (palea similar 
but smaller); 7, lodicule; 8, andro-gynecium; 9, anther; 10, style and stigmas before 
opening; 1l, stigmas opened  out— enlarged. (All from Brandis’ specimens, ) 
6. Оснгахрва RIDLEYI, m, sp. Gamble, 
Apparently a small species. Culm and culm-sheath not known. Leaves 9 to 10 
in. long by 1 to 15 in. broad, oblong-lanceolate ; rounded at the base into a broad, 
2 in. long petiole; cuspidate acuminate at the tip, which is terminated by a 
subulate, setaceous, scabrous point; smooth above, except the scabrous points on 
the marginal veins, pale and slightly scabrous beneath, edges not, or only slightly, 
scabrous ; main vein narrow, inconspicuous, secondary vems 10 to 12 pairs, inter- 
mediate 4 to 5; leaf-shealhs short, smooth, striate, ending in a narrow callus and 
bearing at the margins rounded or faleate, long-ciliate auricles ; ligule short. In- 
florescence a short (3 to 4 in.) terminal spike or spicate panicle on leafy branchlets, 
the flowers in somewhat distichous, bracteate heads, upper rachis very short ; douche 
ovate, truncate, fimbriate, with an ovate-acuminate imperfect blade. : Spikelets several 
sterile, few fertile, about 1 in. long, bearing 1 to 2 empty glumes, then 1 to 2 fertile 
flowers and a short terminal rachilla ; empty glumes ovate, truncate, long-mucronate, striate, 
covered with appressed hairs above ; flowering glume similar but longer ; раке two, not 
keeled : outer narrow, convolute, bi-mucronate, hairy near the tip; inner shorter, rounded 
