774 Jour., Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 [Oct. 15, 1929. 



Description .* Stems 20-30 m. by 20-25 cm. in diam., branched above ; 

 nodes hairy, internodes rather short, grey-green, young with waxy scurf ; walls 

 thin. Stem-sheaths 50 cm. long, as broad at the base, deciduous, thinly 

 strigose with golden hairs, top depressed ; blade 12-40 by 9 cm., decurrent into 

 glabrous, stiff, brown wavy auricles, narrowed above into a short point ; ligule 

 5-12 cm., stiff, black, margin serrate. Leaves up to 50 by 10 cm., oblong, 

 cuspidately acuminate, tips twisted, young hairy beneath, midrib strong, 

 nerves 12-16 pairs, with pellucid cross bars. Panicle very large, branchlels 

 slender, curved ; heads up to 2" 5 cm. diam., 1*2-2*5 cm. apart. Spikelets 12 

 mm. long, ovoid, acute, spinescent, puberulous, sometimes all flowering ; 

 rhachilia produced with an imperfect glume. Involucral glume ovate, 

 mucronate, striate ; flowering glumes 3-6, thin, mucronate, many-nerved. 

 Anthers acuminate. Ovary ovoid and long style hairy ; stigma simple. Grain 

 oblong, obtuse, hairy above. 



Distribution : India (Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Penang, Malacca, 

 Perak), Cochin-China. Cultivated in gardens of India, Ceylon and Europe. 



108. Teinostachyum, Munro. 



Stems thin, overhanging, sometimes climbing. Stem-sheaths usually thin. 

 Leaves various. Panicle spiciform, on leafy branches. Spikelets up to 7*6 cm. 

 long, slender, many-flowered, sometimes pedunculate, in bracteate whorls, 

 upper and lower flowers imperfect. Involucral glumes 1-2, mucronate ; 

 flowering glumes similar, mucros longer. Pale convolute, keels ciliate. 

 Lodicules 3, 3-9-nerved. Stamens 6, filaments free, slender. Anthers obtuse or 

 obtusely apiculate. Ovary ovoid or depressed-globose, apex produced enclos- 

 ing the style ; stigmas 2-3, plumose. Grain ovoid, acuminate, beaked, 

 pericarp crustaceous. 



Species 5.— India, Ceylon. — One species in the Bombay Presidency; not 

 mentioned by Cooke. 



1. Teinostachyum Wightii, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. cccxxiii, Forest Man. ccxxxiii 

 [fixcl. syn.) ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 99, t. 87, etin Hook. f. F.B.I, vii, 410 ; 

 Brandis Ind. Trees 679 ; Camus Les Bambusees (1913), 163. 



Description : Stem 3-6 m. by 2*5-3 cm., semi-scandent ; branches pendu- 

 lous ; nodes narrowly ringed ; internodes bright green, rough above ; walls 

 thin. Stem-sheaths 25-30 by 2*5-3 cm., papery, hirsute with black-brown hairs, 

 top truncate, not auricled ; blade subulate, 12-17 cm., decurrent on the sheath; 

 ligule 2*5 mm. Leaves 15-40 cm. by 2*5-5 cm., oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 tip scabrous, twisted, whitish and sparsely hairy beneath, midrib broad, 

 yellowish, nerves 6-7 pair, tessellate by glands ; sheath glabrous ; ligule 

 narrow. Panicle large, with spiciform drooping branchlets ; rhachis smooth, 

 slender ; rhachilia of spikelets slender, flattened and concave below, thickened 

 and ciliate above. Spikelets 12-25 mm. Involucral glume 1, ovate, mucro- 

 nate, 5-7-nerved, dorsally hirsute ; flowering glumes 1 or 2. mucronate, 

 nerved transversely. Lodicules ovate, short-ciliate, 3-5-nerved. Ovary stalked, 

 depressed-globose, smooth, style included in the long beak of the ovary. 

 Grain stoutly stalked, ovoid, beaked, glabrous. 



Locality : Ghats of N. Kanara. 



Distribution : Nilgiris, Anamalais, about 3,300-5,000 ft. altitude. 



109. Ochlandra, Thw. ; Cke. ii, 1050. 



Species 11.— India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, Java, Madagascar. — Only one 

 species in the Bombay Presidency. 



I. Ochlandra Talboti. Brandis Ind. Trees (1911), 684; Talbot For. Fl. 

 Bombay ii (1911), 572 ; Cke. ii, 1050 ; Camus Les Bambusees (1913), 181.- 

 O. stridula, Woodr. Journ. Bom. Nat. Hist. Soc xiii (1901), 442 {non Thw.). 



Ochlandra Rheedii var . Sivagiriana, Gamble which Talbot (1. c.) identifies 

 with Ochlandra Talboti, has been described as a distinct species by Camus 

 under the name : Ochlandra Sivagiriana in Les Bambusees (1913), 181. 



Description : Cke. ii, 1050. 



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