198 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA, INDIAN BAMBUSEZ; GAMBLE. 
at top, glabrous, somewhat membranous. Lodicules 6 to 10, 2 to 3 in. long, usually 
lanceolate or spathulate, bluntly acute, many-nerved, ciliate above, sometimes forked. 
Stamens free or monadelphous, usually 6, sometimes one or two wanting, 3 longer blunt, 
3 shorter acute at the produced connective. Ovary linear, narrow, surmounted by a 
long style and shortly plumose stigma, the whole enclosed in an enlarged perigynium 
which is 2- to 4-cleft at the tip.  Caryopsis not known. 
Malay Peninsula; collected by H. N. Ridley (No. 4620) and J. Feilding in 1892 
at Bukit Mandai, Singapore. 
The few stamens and the jose chiefly рови this species which is Ше first 
that apparently has been found in the Eastern Peninsula. The Malay пате is Bulu 
kasap. D 
Prats No. 114.—Ochlandra Ridleyi, Gamble. 1, leaf- and flower-branch—of matura 
size; 2, fertile spikelet with 2 to 3 sterile at base; 3, fertile spikelet (flowering 
glume removed); 4, flowering glume ; 5, outer palea, 6, inner palea; 7, flower with 
paleze змя showing style, with stamens and lodicules; 8, lodicules of various 
shapes; 9, stamens; 10, perigynium and stigma ; 11, free terminal rachilla ; 12, leat- 
sheath—enlarged (from Ridley’s specimens). . 
Species of which flowers are unknowm. 
7. OcHLANDRA SETIGERA, n. 8p. Gamble. 
A small, tufted, erect or straggling, reed-like bamboo. Culms about 20 ft. high, 
5 to ‘7 in. thick, very smooth, without branches below, much branched above; nodes 
hardly «swollen ; internodes 10 to 12 in. long, whitish below the nodes, walls 
1 to 2 hk thick, Culm-sheaths persistent, 6 t5 7 in. long, very thin, papery, 
atriate ; both longitudinally and transversely wrinkled near the top; sparsely covered 
with stiff appressed bristles, gradually attenuate to a very narrow (1 in. broad) 
apex; imperfect blade *T to 1 in. long, subulate, hair-like, edges ‘incurved, hairy 
within; ligule very narrow, erose. Leaves obloug-lanceolate, acuminate, 6 to 9 in. 
long, 78 to 12 in. broad; roundel at the base into a ‘1 to :2 in. long petiole ; 
the tip somewhat broadened, scabrous hairy, followed by a twisted, scabrous, hair-like 
point; smooth above, minutely hairy beneath, scabrous on one edge; main vein 
narrow, secondary veins 6 to 7 pairs, intermediate 6 to 7, pellucid glands many; leaf- 
sheaths smooth, ending in short decurrent auricles fringed with long, stiff, curved bristles, 
one side shorter than the other; ligule very narrow. Inflorescence, &c., unknown. 
Western slopes of the Nilgiri Hills, in ravines above Gudalur at about 3,000 ft. 
This species somewhat resembles О, Rheedii, also Arundinaria Prainii and Мапт, 
in „habit ‘and appearance. The needle-hairlike imperfect blades to the papery sheaths 
are characteristic, I have only once met with it, but Dr. H. Trimen has sent sheaths 
extremely like those of this species and a picture from the Royal Botanic Garden, 
Peradeniya, as those of 0. ¢ravancorica, which they certainly do not belong to. This may 
prove to belong to a new genus when the flowers are found, but I put it here at 
present beeause it has every appearance of ie an Ochlandra. ше, 
Prate No. 115.—Ochlandra setigera, Gamble, 1, leaf-branch ; 2, culm and culm- 
sheath; 3, imperfect blade of — inside ; 4, Vaf abeat ary (All from my 
own specimens.) 
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