Dinochloa-I clxxiii. gramineJJ. {Bamhuseae, Gamble.) 415 



Flora, vii. (1824) 291. Nastus Tjangkorreh, SchuUes Syst. Veg. vii. 1358 ; 

 Kunth Ermm. PI. i. 430; Steud. 8yn. Oram. 333. Ohusquea amplo- 

 paniculata, Steud. Lc. 337 ; Miq. I.e. 415. 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, Ridley. — Disteib. Malay and Molucca lalds. 



Stems 100 ft. by 1 in. diam. or more, green, glossy, nodes swollen, of the branches 

 often thorny ; interuodes 9-18 in., hairy above, walls thin. Stem-sheaths loose, 

 leathery, cylindric, narrowed to the non-auricled mouth, sparsely bristly; blade 

 ovate-lanceolate, minutely hispid above ; ligule rather broad. Leaves lanceolate, 

 rather soft, base narrowed, petiole very hairy, smooth on both surfaces, mid-rib 

 conspicuons, nerves 7-9 pairs ; sheaths strigose at length glabrous, mouth rounded 

 with long white bristles; ligule rather broiid, long-oiliate. Panicle compound, 

 branches thin, wiry ; rachis cai'ved, striate, flattened on one side ; nodes with a 

 ring formed by the base of the fallen bracts ; clusters with few fertile and many 

 empty gls. Spikelets ^ in. or l«ss, ovoid, glossy, brown, glabrous ; empty gls. 

 with 1-2 smdier at the base, convolute, 5-7-nerved ; flg. gl. similar. Stamens 

 included, anthers acute. Stigma 2-fid, not plumose. Grain yg-^ in., fleshy. 



Var. andamanica,Ghmh\e I. c. t. 93; spikelets straw-colrd., leaves up to 12 by 

 2 in. softly ovate-lanceolate, mouth of sheaths more ciliate, ligule more fimbriate. 

 D. andamanica Kwz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlli. (1873) ii. 253, For. Fl. Burnt. 

 ii. 570. — Andaman and Nicobar Islds., Sieber, Kurz, &c. 



2. D. M'Clellandi, Kurs in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1873) ii. 

 253, For. Flor. Burm. ii. 371 (Maolellandi) ; stem-slieaths truncate at the 

 mouth, leaves 6-18 by 1-4 in. Oatnble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 113, t. 99. 

 Bambusa M'Olellandi, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. (1868) 114. 



Chittagong, Pegu and Maetaban, Kurz, &c. 



Stem clinibing, 100 ft., or short and straggling, 1-2 in. diam., grey green, 

 nodes swollen ; internodes 6-8 in., young often angled, strigose with brown pungent 

 hairs. Stem-sheaths 6-9 in. by 7-9 in. at the base and 2-3 at the top, cylindric, 

 leathery, strigose with golden -brown hairs ending in a narrow dark glabrous 

 margin and top ; blade lanceolate, glabrous without, densely hairy within, 

 base rounded decnrrent on the sheath ; li^ale entire or subserrate. Leaves broadly 

 oblong-lanueolate, base unequally rounded, narrowed into a broad thicic petiole \ in. 

 long or less, glabrous on both surfaces, one or both margins retrorsely scabrid, 

 mid-rib prominent, nerves 10-18 pairs ; sheath transversely nerved, keeled, at first 

 strigose, mouth produced into a rounded naked auricle ; ligule entire or serrate. 



144. SCKIZOSTACKYUnZ, Nees. 



"Erect or climbing, arborescent or shrubby Bamboos ; stems usually 

 slender, smooth, walls thin. Stem-sheaths short, cylindric, auricles small. 

 LeoAjes broad, petioled. Panicle terminal, of spioate branches bearing 

 heads of spikelets, often reduced to a spike of heads, rachis slender. 

 Spikelets slender, fascicled, peduncled or 2-3-nate ; empty gls. 1-3, narrow, 

 usually mucronate, rachilla elongate b-^tween them and much beyond with 

 a rudimentary gl. : fl. gls. 1-2, articulate below, convolute ; palea like its 

 gl., convolute, not keeled. Lodicules 0-4, narrow. Stamens 6, exserted, 

 anthers narrow, filaments free. Ovary narrow, pericarp produced as a 

 tubular beak enclosing the style, stigmas 3 short plumose. Or ain o^o\^, 

 beaked, beak inclined, pericarp crustaceous; seed rounded.— Species 16, 

 trop. Asia and Pacific. 



* Beads of spihelets in terminal simple spikes. 



1. S. tenue, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 114, t. 100; leaves 4-6 by 



