Bambusa.] 83. graminE/E. 205 



Ovary 1-celled. Fruit a, 1-seccled caryopsi,", pericarp adherent to 

 the testa, and sometimes to the palca and tiowcring glume. Albu- 

 men farinaceous. Embryo at base ot" albumen small or minute. 



Stam#s (). 



Filaments tree. Lodicules 3, 2. Style deciduous. 



Embryo conspicuous on surface of caryopsis Ba.MDUSA. 



Filaments free. Lodicules 0. ^;tyle with a persistent 



base. Embryo not apparent on surface of caryo^jsis... DendrocalAMUS. 

 Filaments united in a slender tube. Caryopsis linear, 



oblong '... OXYTEXANTUEKA. 



BAMBUSA, hchreber. •■ 



Large bambooSj usually in compact clumps, Spikelets 5 to many- 

 flowered, usually clustered and spiked, forming a gigantic leafless 

 panicle. Empty glumes 2 or more, lower shortest, the upper 

 similar to the flowering ghimes. Palea 2-keeled, usually fimJDriate. 

 Lodicules *>, ciliate, membranous. Stamens 6. Caryopsis with a 

 longitudinal furrow, often adhering to the palea and flowering 

 glume. 



Branches spineseent. Leaves with longitudinal nerves 



distinct, transverse not so ... ... .. ... ... B. avundinacea. 



Unarmed. Leaves with distinct, trausyer.se veil!.'! ... S. vulfjaris. 



B. arundinaeea, Retz. Munro in Trans. Linn. See. 2G, 103. Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 231 ; Brandis For. Fl. 564 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 290 ; Gamble 

 lud. Timbers, 428. Bayis, Vern. ; dougi, hidrgahc, K. The large thorny 

 bamboo, common throughout the presidency, usually in deciduous forests. 



B. vulgaris, Wendl. ; Munro I.e. 106 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 299 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 232; Brandis For. Fl. .^GS ; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 428. 

 Kidlulc, baiahoo, Vern. Cultivated in Koihapur, Poona, Satafa, &c., but 

 not indigenous. Stems. with green and yellow stripes. 



OXYTENAWTHERA, Mumo. 



Erect or scandent bamboos. • Spikelets often elongate and curved, 

 verticeflato, few flowered. Flowers 1-3, the terminal one or the 

 last but one fertile, rachilla obsolete. Flowering glume many 

 nerved, spinose-mucronate. Palea in the fertile flowers convex on 

 the back, keels obsolete, in the other flowers bicarinate. Lodicules 

 none. Stamens 6, monadelphous, anthers with a mucro or bristle or 

 with a few hairs. Style slender, divided at the apex into 2-o long 

 and plicate stigmas. Caryopsis linear-oblong with a longitudinal 



furrow. 



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2 ilowers to spikclet. Style liairy. Anthers acute, not 



apiculate ... ... ... ... ... 0. Stocksii. 



fcjpikelets .slender, 1-fiowercd, Style glabrous. Anthers 

 apiculate ... ... ... ... ... 0. monostigma. 



O. monostigma, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 233 ; Gamble Ind. Timbers, 429. 

 Bamhusa Eitcheyi, Munro. Choiw, K. Common throughout the Konkan 



