Bambusa.] GRAMINER (Stapf). 749 
Glumes gradually passing into the valves and like these rigidly 
membranous to subco oriaceous, muticous or mucronate- -acuminate, 
upper larger. Valves ovate- lanceolat ate, many-nerved. Pades equal 
to the valves, prominently 2-keeled, keels ciliate or not. Lodicules 
3, membranous, generally obtuse, ciliate. Stamens 6; filaments 
conspicuo 
Arborescent or paipene rarely climbing, sometimes thorny; culms from a 
thick ieee usually czespitose, sometimes stoloniferous; blades medium-sized, 
rarely large, linear or pe ae lanceolate, acuminate, shortly petioled ; panicles 
often very compound 
Species about 50, in a Asia, 1 in North-Hast Australia ; elsewhere only 
cultivated or as escapes 
. B. Baleooa (Roxb. Hort. Beng. 25; Fi. Ind. ii. 196) ; tall, 
eck exspitose ; culms 50-70 ft. high, 3-6 in. in diam., branehed 
om th 
. st s 
hairy on the upper side, ciliate along the margins, bearing sho 
toesgulat -suricled 3 ae — blades, following sheaths 10-14 in. by 
8-10in en exp exc e margins, 
tru neate, sei some blades, 6-8 in. by he in., ene hairy, 
rounded at the base and then again decurrent on the sheath 3 upper 
panicle large, compoun nd; rhachis pubescent or scurfy, striate ; 
branches long ; sor rs of few to many spikelets, bracteate ; spike- 
lets ovoid-lanceolate, 31-8 lin. by 23-3} lin., up to 7-Hlowered, 
greenish, straw- ica or brow nish ; glum s 2-0, very concave, 
ovate, acute, many-nerved, if 2, the lower smaller, upper intermediate 
between it and the lowest valve, beth with a small or rudimentary 
bud in the axil; valves ovate-lanceolate to pare in profile, acute or 
mucronate, up tod 4 lin. long, herbaceous-subcoriaceous, many-nerved, 
margins ciliate above; pale acutely 2-keeled, keels long re 
back 5-nerved adele the keels, flaps about 3-nerved ; 1 
oblong to obovate, 3- eames ciliate, up to 1 lin. long ; aatiene 
hardly saciid anthers 21 lin. lon , glabrous; ovary hairy, 
ere olga into the ‘llons style, this ese 2 lin. long ; stigmas 3, 
ender. Munro in Trans. Linn . 100; Gamble in Ann. 
Bot. Gard. Caleutta, vii. 42. B. ssbiad “Dapis Bamb. 54, t. 12, 
fig. 54; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 330; Durand & Schinz, Consp. 
