312 Grammece. \Bambusa. 



ovoid, glabrous, style very short, stigmatic hairs secund ; 

 grain unknown. 



Montane region, alt. 6000-8000 ft. Spikelets red-brown. Flowers 

 annually (?). 



Endemic. 



Mr. Gamble adds to above description, ' Characterised by the small 

 pointed leaves, short spikelets, long glumes, and slightly ciliate palea.' 

 Thwaites remarks that it is used as horse-fodder at Nuwara Eliya. 



5. A., densifolia, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 32 (li 

 Gamble, Bamb. Brit. Ind. 8. C. P. 3956. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 379. Gamble, 1. c. t. 7. 



A densely gregarious shrub ; rootstock stoloniferous, 

 clothed with imbricating scales, stolons giving off stout, 

 strong, densely leafy stems 6 in-3 ft. high, with fastigiate 

 short branchlets, internodes i|-3 in. by J in. diam., rather 

 thick-walled, nodes not prominent, stem-sheaths 1 in. or 

 more, striate, hirsute, tip rather narrowed, truncate, minutely 

 2-auricled, blade short, ovate, base rounded ; 1. i-i| by 

 ■|— \ in., densely imbricate, subsessile, erect, lanceolate, 

 tapering into a setaceously acuminate, glabrous, pungent 

 point, margins broadly cartilaginous, finely spinulose-cilio- 

 late, midrib stout, shining, veins 1-2 pairs, inconspicuous, 

 with 4-5 intermediates and many regular cross-venules, 

 1. -sheaths striate, strigose with white hairs above, margins 

 ciliate, ligule short, rounded, hairy ; infl. of short erect 

 racemes i-\\ in. long, of 6-12 spikelets, terminating leafy 

 branchlets, bracteate by the uppermost leaf, rhachis of raceme 

 and short pedicels rather stout, angular, scabrid ; spikelets 

 subsecund, erect, |-J in. long, laterally compressed, i-fld., 

 rhachilla short and stout below the fig. glume, very slender 

 and naked above it, with sometimes a rudimentary; glumes 

 3-4, scaberulous, I subulate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, 

 3-veined, II much longer, aristately acuminate, 5-7-veined, 

 fig. glume rather longer, 5-7-veined, acuminate, keel strong, 

 palea as long as the glume, 2-toothed, keels scabrous, sides 

 faintly veined ; lodicules obovate, obtuse, shortly fimbriate, 

 faintly 3-5-veined; fil. short, anth. included, linear, obtuse, 

 apiculate; ov. oblong, glabrous, styles very short, free; grain 

 unknown. 



Montane region. Horton Plains and Pedurutalagala, alt. 7000 ft. 

 Fl. Sept. 



Also on the Anamalai Hills. 



78. BA9IBVSA, Schreb. 

 Trees or shrubs, rarely climbing, sometimes thorny ; 

 rootstock stout, stem-sheaths usually broad, triangular; 1. 



