Ochlandra.] Graminecz. 317 



fig. glumes similar, but longer, mucronate, palea oblong, 

 convolute, keels 2, ciliate; lodicules 3, persistent, 3-9- veined; 

 stam. 6, fil. slender, free, anth. exserted ; ov. ovoid or depressed- 

 globose, pericarp produced upwards into a tube enclosing the 

 slender style, stigmas 2-3 ; grain ovoid, acuminate, beaked, 

 pericarp crustaceous. — Sp. 5 ; all in FL B. Ind. 



T. attenuatum, Mitnro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 143 (1$ 

 Beddome, Fl. Sylv., For. Man. p. ccxxxiv. Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. no. 



Bambusa attemcata, Thw. Enum. 375. C. P. 3255. Gamble, Bamb. Brit. 



Ind. 100. 



Fl. B. Ind vii. 410. Gamble, 1. c. t. 88. 



Stems tufted, 12-25 ft. high, \-\ in. diam., tips very 

 slender, nodes with many whorled leafy branches ; stem- 

 sheaths pale, appressedly hairy; 1. thin, 3-6 by \-\ in., lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, tip subulate, twisted, scabrous, smooth or 

 rather rough above, smooth and pale beneath, midrib not 

 prominent, base rounded or cordate, veins 3-5 pairs, with 

 5-7 close - set intermediates crossed by pellucid glands, 

 margins ciliate, petiole yu~s m -> l.-sheaths sparingly ap- 

 pressed hairy or glabrous, mouth truncate, fringed with 

 short deciduous hairs, margins scaberulous, ligule short, entire, 

 glabrous; infl. terminal, and from the ends of the whorled 

 branches, elongate, very slender, falcate or drooping at the 

 tip, spikelets in whorled clusters of fertile and sterile bracts, 

 l-i| in. long, lanceolate, finely acuminate, rhachis smooth; 

 spikelets narrow, 1 by i in., rhachilla terete, smooth, thickened 

 above; glumes 5-6, I ^ in., ovate, mucronate, ciliate, empty, 

 7-veined, fig. glumes 2-3, with 1-2 upper imperfect, longer 

 than I, 9-1 1 -veined, palea smaller than the glume, keels 2, 

 ciliolate; lodicules lanceolate, 3-veined, tips ciliate; fil. long, 

 twisted, anth. J in. long, obtusely mucronate; ov. ovoid, acu- 

 minate, glabrous, style long, stigmas 3, long, purple, stigmatic 

 hairs, short, simple ; grain narrowed at both ends, beaked, 

 glabrous. 



Central Province, alt. 4000-6000 ft. Ramboda, Hakgalla, &c. 

 (Thwaites). Upper Abbotsford, in fl. and fr. May 1879, and January and 

 February 1880 (Ferguson). 



Endemic. 



Extensively used for basket-making and other purposes in Dambulla 

 (Ferguson). 



81. OCKLANDRA. Thw. 



Shrubby, gregarious, slender bamboos ; stems erect, inter- 

 nodes thin-walled, stem-sheaths persistent, auricles small; 1. 

 lanceolate, many-veined, margins sometimes cartilaginous, 1. 

 sheaths striate, fringed, ligule short or long ; infl. of elongate, 



