Oxyte?ianthera.~\ GramineCE. 3 1 5 



3. *B. nana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 25 (18 14). 



Trim. Syst. Cat. Ceyl. PL no. Moon, Cat. 29. C. P. 4022. Gamble, 

 Bamb. Brit. Ind. 41. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 390. Gamble, 1. c. t. 38. 



An evergreen shrub; stems tufted 6-10 ft. by \-\ in. diam., 

 much branched from the base, smooth, green, at length yellow, 

 internodes 8-15 in., nodes thickened, stem-sheaths 4-6 by 

 2-3 in., slightly narrowed to the rounded top, stiff, striate, 

 glabrous, green, then yellow, blade 2-3 in., linear, acuminate, 

 base decurrent on the sheath, glabrous or appressed hairy 

 above, hairy beneath, margins ciliate with deciduous hairs, 

 ligule narrow, entire ; 1. distichous, 2-4 by \ in., linear- 

 lanceolate, tip subulate, twisted, smooth above, whitish or 

 glaucous and puberulous beneath, base rounded or narrowed 

 into the very short petiole, midrib faint, pale beneath, veins 3-6 

 with 7-8 intermediate, crossed by pellucid glands, 1. -sheaths 

 smooth, striate, tipped with a callus, auricles of mouth fringed 

 with a few long stiff bristles, ligule short ; infl. a diffuse leafy 

 panicle of slender short rhachides bearing solitary or fascicled 

 spikelets ^-ii in. long by A in. broad; spikelets 5- or more-fid., 

 terminal fl. alone imperfect, glabrous, straw-col'd., rhachilla 

 xs~4 in., flattened ; empty glumes o, rarely 1, fig. glumes 

 about §-§ in., ovate, acute, glabrous, many-veined, palea 

 shorter, many-veined, keels 2, with ciliolate tips; lodicules 3, 

 unequal, ^u~i i n -> linear-lanceolate, usually 2-veined ; anth. 

 exserted, linear, pendulous, obtuse or apiculate, yellow; ov. 

 obovoid, rough, pubescent above, style very short, stigmas 3, 

 rather long, penicillate to the base; grain ellipsoid, shortly 

 beaked, furrowed, hirsute above. 



Naturalised only (Ferguson). The Dwarf or Chinese Bamboo. 



China ; cult, throughout India. 



Cultivated extensively for close fences. Thwaites observes that the 

 fl. are usually imperfect. 



79. OXYTENANTHSRA, Munro. 

 Small or medium-sized arborescent or scandent unarmed 

 bamboos; rootstock stout, usually creeping and stoloniferous ; 

 stem-sheaths various; 1. variable, shortly petioled; infl. of 

 clustered, elongate, slender, simple or branched rachides, bear- 

 ing heads of sessile, elongate, narrowly conical, 1-3 -fid. 

 spikelets; glumes I— III empty, fig. glumes ovate, acute, or 

 cuspidate, palea keeled or dorsally rounded; lodicules o; 

 stam. 6, fil. confluent in a long tube, anth. narrow, exserted; 

 ov. ovoid, style slender, stigmas 1-3; grain elongate, beaked by 

 the style-base, grooved, embryo large. — Sp. 9 ; 8 in Fl. B. Ind. 



