Ochlandra] CXII. GRAMIXE.E 



B. Filaments monadelphous. 



6. 0. travancorica, Benth. ; Gamble, t. 111. Syu. Beeslia travancorica, Betid. Fl. 

 Sylv. 324. The Elephant Grass. Vern. Iral,Ita Kn/li, Tarn. Ghats between Travancore 

 and Tinnevelli above 2,000 ft., covering immense areas, often to the exclusion of almost 

 all other vegetation, with impenetrable thickets up to 15 ft. high, from which stand 

 • >u*. a few scattered trees of Vernonia, Eugenia, and other kinds. Culms erect or 

 - raggling, internodes 2-5 f t. long, 1-2 in. diam., walls thin. Culm-sheaths thin, 6-8, 

 blade narrow, subulate, 1J-3 in. long. L. b-21 by 2-6 in., pet. thick, J-J in. long, 

 ii. 18-21 "ii i in. Fl. panicles leafy, fertile spikelets few, 2 in. long, with numerous 

 sterile ones in distant beads on fascicled spikes, which are arranged in large leafy 

 panicles. Lodicnles usually 3, lanceolate, more or less unequal, one dentate, sometimes 

 bifid. Stamens ap to 120, anthers A— J in. long, with a long point, filaments monadel- 



p] -. free at apex. Fr. ovoid. 3-4 in. long, 1J in. diam., fleshy, surrounded by the 



persistent glumes and palea. Beddome collected it in fl. about 1868. I found it in fl. 



on the Tinnevelli ghats in Feb. 1882, and in Travancore t he si ies was expected to 



flower in I'll in. Believed to die down after flowering. Var. hirsuia, Gamble, t. 112, 

 spikelets thickly clothed with light brown velvety pubescence. 



Fl. unknown. 



7. 0. setigera, Gamble, t. 115. Ravines above Gudalur, Nilgiris 3,000 ft. Culms 

 20 ft., internodes 10-12, diam. J-f in. Culm-sheaths persistent. 6-7 in. long, thin, 

 gradually narrowed to a subulate hair-like blade. L. 6-9 by J— 1 in., n. 30-33 on J in., 

 sheath at mouth with long bristles. 



Bamboos from Upper Burma, the flowers of which are unknown : — 



1. Wakha, Burin. On Hmangin daung, 2,500 ft., gregarious in Taungya pouzo 



C. B. Smales, March 1902). Tufted, stems 35 ft. long. weak, widely overhanging, 



i breaking when without support, internodes 9 in. long, slightly swelling in the 



middle, diam. 1-1} in., walls very thin. T '- in. Culm-sheaths light buff-coloured, thin. 



) — ly clasping the stem, brown hairs outside in the lower portion, blade early 

 deciduous glabrous, finely ribbed, 3-3A in. long. Young shoots olive-brown just above 

 and olive-grey just below the nodes. L. glabrous, light green, 10 by Ik in., n. 19-21 

 on J in., transverse veins conspicuous, distant, mostly oblique, sheaths green with a 

 few scattered brown hairs on the margin. Similar to Pseudostachyum polymorphum, 

 Munro, but reported to be tufted. 2. Sinthana, Burm. Pyinyaung forests, MeiktUa 

 district, along banks of streams and on low, moist ground (Troup, June 1902). 

 Culms erect, clothed with liu'ht brown silky hairs, which are matte.l t ,-, t her like felt 

 near the nodes, 50 ft. high, internodes 15-24 in. long. diam. 3J-4 in., walls A in. thick, 

 rootlets at the lowest 3 or I node-. Culm-sheaths 7 10 in. long, brown-hairy outside, 

 blade persistent, ribbed on the outside. L. densely clothed with fine hairs beneath, 

 us by '-:; in. ii. Jl on J in., transverse veins distant. :;. Thalaw-wa, Burm. t Hit i- 



re id in the Northern Shan States, 2-4,000 ft. (Troup, June 1902). Shifted, culms 



light green, with minute white silky hairs, erect. Jo oil ft., internodes LJ-2J ft.. 3-4 in. 



ii.. walls \ in. thick, small branchlets at most of the nodes. Culm-sheaths thick. 



iiv gla i ton-. ."> 6 in. long, 12 in. wide at base, the sides curving to a slightly 



concave top, I in br I, with a brown fringe, blade triangular, on the inside densely 



clothed with brown hairs, sharply cuspidate, base LJ in. i.. 7-9 by I in., n. 26 on Jin , 

 transv. veins visible, oblique, distant. I. Wamni, Burm. Cultivated in gardens in 



Sort] era Sh in Stat< - - bid by some to have l n brought from China, bj others 



from Chengmai, in Siam (Troup, May 1902). Culms looselj tufted, erect or bending 

 Btiffij up to 10 ft., usually smaller, dark green, shining and perfectly glabrous. 



Inter |es i 6 in. long, rarely longer, much swollen in the lower half, the swollen 



pari I .. in. diam. Rootlets on the lowest 8 or I nodes. Culm-sheaths resembling 

 those of Bambusa vulgaris, brown hairy outside. ."> in., blade 2 8 in. long with 

 rounded oiliate auricles at the base. L. 7 9bj ; in., n. 80 38 on I in., sheaths keeled, 

 edges 1 1 1 i i n 1 1 . ■ 1 _\ oiliate. The short swollen internodes may be a deformity onalo 

 to that described by Kinz in tnd. For. i. 252, t. I. 



Order CXIII. GNETACEvE. Gen. I'l. iii. 117. 



(E. Strasburger, Die Coniferen unci die Gnetaceen, 1872. 



stem and branches jointed al the nodes. L. opposite, whorled, or reduced 

 to a short, sometimes 2 l-dentate sheath. Fl. unisexual, J, with 2-8 anthers. 



9: one erect ovule with one integument, prolonged into a tube, which 



