316 GraminecE. [Tetnostachyum. 



O. Thwaitesii, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 129 (1868). 

 Gamble, Bamb. Brit. Ind. 73. Dendrocalanucs monadelp]ius, Thw. 

 Enum. 376. C. P. 3359. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 402. Beddome, Fl. Sylv. t. 322. Gamble, 1. c. t. 64. 



Gregarious, subscandent ; stems 10-12 ft. by about 1 in. 

 diam., with whip-like curved tips, bearing whorls of small- 

 leaved branchlets, smooth, nodes prominent, internodes 

 12-18 in., rough, young hirsute, walls tV~t * n - thick; stem- 

 sheaths about 6 by 3-4 in., of old stems covered with appressed 

 light brown hairs, of young thinner, glabrous, shining, base 

 leaving a coriaceous ring on the nodes, mouth truncate, 

 margins ciliate, blade 3-5 in., ovate, acuminate, base rounded 

 and decurrent on the top of the sheath, and ending in large 

 rounded auricles with bristly tips, bristles very long and 

 flexuous on the 1. of young shoots, ligule of old sheaths very 

 long, fimbriate, of younger narrow, erose; 1. variable, of old 

 stems up to 12 by i-if in., lanceolate, acuminate, tip seta- 

 ceous, twisted, glabrous above, sparsely hairy beneath, base 

 narrowed or rounded, margins scabrous, midrib yellow, veins 

 8-10 pairs, with 7 intermediates, and many transverse venules 

 in the larger leaves, few or o in the smaller, petiole T V- \ in., 

 l.-sheaths keeled, ending in a rounded callus, and below, in 

 young plants, in 2 auricles, bearing very long flexuous bristles, 

 ligule variable; infl. very large, panicled, leafy, heads of 

 spikelets globose, up to 2 in. diam., bracts small, ovate; 

 spikelets often binate, sessile, stellately spreading, jo— t^ m - 

 long, densely packed, pale, usually i-fld.; glumes I — III, empty, 

 ovate, mucronate, many-veined, fig. glumes ovate, acute, 

 mucronate, tip often pubescent, margins ciliate, palea convo- 

 lute, obtuse, tip ciliate; stam.-tube at first short, thick, then 

 elongate, membranous, anth. subsessile on the tube, narrow, 

 tip long, hairy; ov. ovoid, pubescent, style long, slender, hairy, 

 stigmas 3, stigmatic hairs short; grain oval-oblong, glabrous, 

 except the style-base. 



Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft. ; common. Flowers frequently in 

 March. 



Also in Nilgiri and Anamalai Hills. 



80. TEINOSTACKYUM, Munro. 

 Shrubby or arborescent Bamboos; stems rather slender, 

 drooping from an erect base, stem-sheaths slender, blade 

 recurved ; 1. variable ; infl. a slender terminal rhachis, bearing 

 sessile bracteate fascicles of long, narrow, subterete, many- 

 fld., suberect spikelets, upper and lower fl. imperfect; glumes 

 distichous, I and II empty, ovate, acuminate or mucronate, 



