3 1 8 GramineCB. [Ochlandra. 



naked, solitary or fascicled rhachides terminating leafy 

 branchlets; spikelets whorled, stellately spreading, lanceolate, 

 terete, rigid, sterile and fertile intermixed, i-fld. ; glumes 

 many, convolute, mucronate, lower I-V empty, lowest very 

 short, cupular, succeeding gradually longer, all rigidly cori- 

 aceous, obscurely very many-veined, smooth, polished, fig. 

 glume longest, solitary, palea membranous, many - veined, 

 not keeled; lodicules I or more; stam. 6-120, fil. free or 

 connate, exserted at the. top of the spikelet, anth. long, 

 narrow ; ov. narrow, style elongate, stigmas 4-6, short,- 

 stigmatic hairs short ; grain very large, ovoid or lanceolate, 

 long -beaked by the rigid exserted style, embraced by the 

 persistent glumes, pericarp very thick, fleshy. — Sp. 7 ; all in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



O. stridula, Thw. Ennm. 376 (1864). Bata-li, S. 



Beddome, Fl. Sylv., For. Man. p. ccxxxiv. Gamble, Bamb. Brit. Ind. 

 123. Beesha stridula, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 145. Bambusa 

 stridula, Moon, Cat. 26. C. P. 241. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 419. Gamble, 1. c. t. 109. 



Gregarious ; stems crowded, 6-18 ft. by \— f in. diam., pale 

 green, nodes geniculate, internodes 12-20 in. long, scabrous, 

 stem-sheaths glabrous, top rounded, auricles falcate, bristly, 

 blade subulate, recurved, ligule short; 1. 8-12 by \\-2\ in., 

 oblong-lanceolate, tip long, setaceous, scabrid, smooth above, 

 margins subcartilaginous, reflexed, one scabrous, midrib 

 slender, veins 10-12 pairs, with about 7 intermediates crossed 

 obliquely by pellucid glands, petiole short, stout, concave, L- 

 sheaths ending in a narrow callus fringed with deciduous 

 bristles sometimes \ in. long, young hirsute, old glabrous, 

 ligule narrow, glabrous ; rhachides elongate, rough at the 

 articulations, glaucous above them ; spikelets up to 1 in. long 

 by \ in. diam., cylindric-conical, glabrous or sparsly hirsute; 

 glumes persistent in fr.. I and II \- \ in. long and broad, 

 margins naked or ciliate, fig. glume similar but longer, palea 

 as long as the fig. glume, membranous, oblong, truncate, 

 veins many, trabeculate; lodicules 6-12 or more, lanceolate, 

 one-, few-, or many-veined, convolute, appressed to the fr. 

 and persistent ; stam. up to 30, fil. free, flat, anth \ in., 

 2-toothed, mucronate in the sinus ; ov. narrow, smooth, style 

 enclosed in the produced trigonous tip of the pericarp, 

 stigmas 4-5, at first twisted; grain about 1 in. long, beak 

 as long, subtended by the persistent glumes, palea, lodicules, 

 and filaments. 



