402 OLXXiii. gbamine^. {Bamhuiecu, Gamble.) lOxyfenanthera, 



Malata ; Sunjei Ulong. Johoee, Ridley (var. with glabrous spikelets). 



Leaves 10-12 by li-li in., oblong-kuceolate, acuminate, base rounded orsub- 

 oordate, petiole broad hairy, tip setaceous scahrid twisted scabernlous above, midrib 

 faint, nerves 10-12 pair ; sheath glabrous or puberulous, keeled, striate, ending in a 

 narrow ciliate callus ; ligule rather short, tliickly pubescent. Panicle with slender 

 sinuous branches, internodes ^-1^ in. Ooary broadly ovoid, style hairy, stigmii 

 plumose. 



4. O. parvifolia, Brandis ex Oamhle Bamh. Brit. Ind. 72, t. 6.3; 

 leaves 3-5 by | in. linear-Ianoeolate puberulous beneath, spikelets narrow 

 f-J in. 4-10 in a whorl with polished bracts, rachis slender wiry, gls. 

 eciliate fertile and sterile mixed, empty gls. 2-3 ovate mucronate glabroas, 

 fl. gls. similar but longer usually 2 fertile and 1 imperfect, palea 2-3-ner7ed 

 between the shortly ciliate keels, anthers short obtuse, 



BxritMA ; in the Yonzalin Valley, Brandts. 



Stems up to 3 in. diam. Stem-sheaths 8-9 by 8-10 in., strigose with brown 

 hairs, top truncate striate ; blade 2-3 by 1 in , base rounded and decurrent in a 

 narrow naked subauricled band ; ligule long, rather broad. Leaves shortly 

 petioled, base rounded, tip subulate twisted, pale and puberulous beneath ; sheath at 

 first hairy, ending in a prominent callus bristly at the top. Panicle of long glabrous 

 branches, with internodes 1-2 in. Spikelets glabrous ; empty gls. striate towards 

 the tip. Ovary hairy, style long slender, stigmas 1-2 plumose. 



** Meads of many spilcelets. — South Indian species. 



5. O. Thwaitesil, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxri. (1868) 129 ; 

 stem reed-like straggling, leaves up to 8-12 by l-lj^ in., spikelets J-J in. 

 in dense heads with ovate bracts acute pale usually 1-fld., rachis smooth, 

 gls. with more or less ciliate margins, empty gls. 2-3 ovate muoronate 

 many-nerved, flg. gl. ovate acute cuspidate pubescent above, palea con- 

 volute, anther-tips long hairy, stigmas 3. Beddome Fl. Sylo. t. cocxxii.; 

 Forest. Man. p. ccxxxii. ; Trim. Cat. Geyl. PI. 110 ; Gamble Banih. Brit. Ind. 

 73, t. 64. Dendrocalarans monadelphus, Thwaites Enum. PL Ceyl. 376. 



NiL&HiEi and Tbatanooee Hills, alt. 3500-6000 ft. Ceylon, alt. 4-6000 ft. 



Stem? 10-12 ft. by 1 in. diam., gregarious, straggling or subscandent, smooth ; 

 branches whip-like, branchlets whorled and sheathed, nodes prominent, internodes 

 12-18 in. rough, young hirsute, walls -^-^—f^ in. thick. Stem-sheaths about 6 by 

 3-4 in., of young shoots glabrous yellow shining, of old strigose with light brown 

 hairs, ending in a coriaceous separable ciliate ring ; blade 3-5 by 1 in , base rounded 

 decurrent in rounded falcate auricles, pectinately ciliate with long curved bristles ; 

 ligule of old sheaths long- fimbriate, of young narrow erose. Leaves with twisted 

 setaceous tips, sparsely liaiiy beneath, midrib narrow yellow, nerves 4i-5 pairs, pel- 

 lucid glands few j sheath often hirsute keeled, callus rounded, young with falcate 

 bristly auricles ; ligule long. Fanicle very large, leafy j lower heads 1^-2 in. diam., 

 upper smaller with fewer spikelets. Ouory ovoid and style pubescent. G-rain i-J in., 

 glabrous, mucronate. — Easily recognized by the whip-like climbing branches and 

 long-ciliate sheaths. 



6. O. monostig-ma, Beddome Fl. Sylv. Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiii., and 

 Ic. PI. Ind. Or. i. 56, t. 234 ; stem solid velvety-tomentose pale yellow, 

 leaves 6-8 by 1| in. linear-lanceolate, spikelets f-1 in. in globose heads fertile 

 and sterile spinescent, glabrous, empty gls. muoronate 2-3 lower small 

 ovate, upper ovate-lanceolate, flg. long linear-lanceolate long-muoronate 

 convolute, palea concave not keeled obtuse, anthers tipped with a long hairy 

 bristle, stigma 1. Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 74, t. 65. Bambusa Ritcheyi, 



