392 OLXxiii. GEAMiNBiE. (BambusecB, Gamble.) \_Bamhusa. 



R. 8( S.)\ Ruprechtin Mem. Acad. Petersh. 8e.r. VI. v. (1839) 140, Bamh. 

 47, t. 11, f. 47; Steud. Syn. Gram. 329; Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl.299; 

 Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 106; Beddome Fl. Sylv., Forest. 

 Man. p. ooxxxii. ; Brandts For. Flor. 668 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 

 561, Ind. Forester, i. 339 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii 417 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. 

 Ind. 528; Biviire, Les Bamhous, 191, f. 18, 19; Trim. Cat. Oeyl. PI. 110; 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 44, t. 40. B. arundiiiacea, Ait. Hort. Kew Ed. II. 

 316; Moon Cat. Ceyl. PI. 26 {non Willd.). B. humilis, Beichb. fid. Bupr. 

 I. u. 60. B. Sieberi, Griseb. I. c. 5. B. striata, Lodd. ex Munro I. c. 121 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6079. B. surinamensis, Supr. I. c. 49, t. 11, f. 49 ; Steud. I. c. 

 329. B. Thouarsii, Runth in Journ. de Phys. (1822) 148 ; Rev. Gram. i. 

 323, t. 73, 74, Fmtrn. PI. i. 431, Suppl. 366; Rupr. Bamb. 48, t. 11, f. 48; 

 Steud. I. c. 329; Nees in Linnsea, 466; Thwaites Enum. PL Ceyl. 376. 

 Nastus Thouarsii, Spreng. Syst. ii. llo. 



Cultivated throughout tropical India and in all hot countries. (Wild in Java, 

 Kurz). 



Stems 20-50 ft., by 2-4 in. diam., rather distant, green yellow or striped, 

 polished j nodes hardly raised, with usually a ring of brown hairs ; internodes 

 10-18 in., walls rather thin. Stem-sheaths 6-10 in^ by 7-9 in. broad, often streaked 

 with yellow, thickly hairy above, top rounded retnse ; blade 2-6 by 4 in., appressed 

 hairy on both surfaces, base rounded decurrent with rounded falcate fimbriate 

 auricles ; ligule broad, toothed or fimbriate. Leaves 6-10 by j-lf in., pale, petioled, 

 tip twisted scabrid, nerves 6-8 ; sheath loosely hairy, callus ciliate, auricle rounded; 

 ligule short, ciliate. Panicle large, leafy, clusters of spikelets largest at the nodes, 

 rachis scurfy. Lodicules 3, winged, ciliate. 



11. B. Oliveriana, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 130, t. 116 ; stems 

 coespitose, leaves small linear thin, auricles unequal, panicle of drooping 

 unilateral spikes with distant braoteate clusters of 1-3 flattened spikelets 

 about f in. long, empty gls. 1-2 ovate-lanceolate, flg. gls. 3-4 9-nerved, 

 rachilla long flattened, palea as long as the gl. acute tip penioillate keels 

 glabrous, anthers obtuse, ovary elongate ovoid, style short, stigmas 2. 



Uppek Bttema, Oliver, Borers. 



Stems graceful, 40-45 ft., 1-2 in. diam. ; glossy green, branching from the base, 

 internodes about 14 in. Stem-sheaths thin, pale, 8-10 in. by 4-5 broad, narrowed 

 upwards to a mouth 2-3 in. broad, glabrous; blade 4-8 in., triangular- 

 lanceolate, cordate, sparsely hairy on both surfaces ; auricles unequal long fringed, 

 one -J;;-! in. rounded, the other decurrent ; ligule Jj in. broad, serrate. Leaves 

 4-7 by 4-| in., petioled, glabrous, nerves 4-5 pair ; sheath glabrous, callus emargi- 

 nate; ligule rather long. Bracts of infl. truncate, glabrous. Palea 3-nerved 

 between and on either side of the keels. Lodicules 3, rounded, fimbriate. Grain, 

 ovoid. Anthers striped red and yellow, then purple. 



12. B. Bingrhami, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 45, t. 41 ; stems wiry, 

 leaves linear or linear-lanceolate base rounded tip long twisted glabrous, 

 panicle terminal short leafy, spikelets few in scattered fascicles about | in. 

 long, empty gls. 1-2 striate muoronate, fig. gls. 5-6 ovate acute mucronate 

 smooth many-nerved, palea as long as the gl. or longer keels fringed with 

 long hairs, anthers obtuse or with an apical hair, ovary elongate, style 

 short. 



LowEB Burma ; Tenasserim, Bingham. 



Leaves 3-6 by J-f in., subsessile or petiole very short, smooth on both surfaces 

 nerves 5-6 pairs. Panicle with short rachis; joints sometimes geniculate clavate. 

 Spikelets with distichous gls., rachilla evident broad clavate flexuous ; palea con- 

 spicuous. Lodicules rounded, long-ciliate. Grain linear-oblong, beak hairy. 



Appears not to difler very greatly from the Chinese B. flexuosa, Munro. 



