416 OLXXiii. GRAMINB*. {BambusecB, Gamble.) [^Schizostachyum. 



g-j in. linear-lanoeolate, heads 1-3 in a spike bracteate, spiKelets few about 

 i in. long, empty gls. 1-2 ovn.te acute 5-7-nerved, &g. gl., longer. 

 ? S. elegantiasimuai, Sara Jrai. Forester, i. 348. (Bambusa elegantisaima, 

 Sassh. PI. Jav. Bar. 42. Beesha elegantissima, Kurz ex Munro in, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxyi. (1808) 146). 



Maiat Peninsuia ; Pahang, Malacca and Johore, Ridley. 



Stems graceful, slender, scaadent. Leaves narrowed into a rather long petiole, 

 smooth and glabrous on both surfaces, midrib shining, nerves 3-5 pairs, distantly 

 tessellate by glands, sheaths smooth truncate, callus broad ; ligule very narrow. Bachia 

 of spikes slender, curved ; bracts chaffy, mucronate, yellowish. Spihelets narrow, 

 acuminate ; palea longer than its gl., 2-keeled, glabrous, 2-mucronate. Lodicules 

 ovate, acute, 3-5-nerved. Stamens exserted, anthers linear tips rounded. 



2. S. chilianthum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. (1870) II. 

 88, Ind. Forester, i. 348 ; leaves 6-10 by f-1 in. linear-lanceolate, heads 

 3-6 in a spike, spikelets about 5 in. long, empty gls. ovate mucronate 

 striate glabrous, flg. gl. longer. Oamhle Bamh. Brit. Ind. 115, t. 101. 

 Ohloothamnus chilianthus, Buese in PI. Jungk. 387; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 415. Melooanna gracilis, Kurz ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 

 (1868) 133.— Bambusa, Wall. Cat. n. 5032. 



Stem 6-8 ft. by ^-f in. diam., smooth, glossy, nodes not promiuent; internodes 

 fistular, glabrous j flowering and leafing branches together half-whorled at the nodes 

 with many bract-like sheaths; branchlets slender, curved, smooth. Stem-sheaths 

 glabrous, smooth, truncate, margins oiliate; blade narrowly lanceolate, base rounded, 

 hairy, decurrent in a long fringed band, auricles narrow long-fringed; ligule 

 narrow long-fringed. Leaves loug acuminate, setaceous point sometimes li in., 

 midrib not prominent, nerves 4-6 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands ; sheath glabrous, 

 mouth truncate bearing about 10 stiff white deciduous bristles, auricles short, callus 

 narrow. Heads about 4 in. broad, racliis slender, grooved, glabrous. Spikelets 

 acuminate. PaZeoe 2, mucronate, keeled above only, iorficwles 3, 3-5-nerved, ciliate. 

 Ovary oblong, stigmas 3 plumose purple. Grain nearly ^ in., beak inclined. 



** Heads of spikelets in panicled spikes. 



3. S. Blumel, Nees Agrost. Bras. 535 ; leaves 9-10 by IJ-lf iu. on 

 sterile branches up to 16 in. oblong-lanceolate, spikelets under f in. 

 cylindric, raohilla ciliate, empty gls. 2obIoug loug-mnoronate glabrous, flg. 

 gl. longer, palese 1 or 2 inner convolute, lodicules 0, anthers obtuse. 

 Eunth Fnum. PL i.435 ; Bupr. Bamh. 43, t. 16, 17, f. 4 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 332; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 42-t; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 

 136 ; Kurz Ind. Forester, i. 360 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 116, t. 102. 

 Melocanna tenniapiculata, Kurz in Hort. Buitenz. and Gale. 



SiHGAPOEE, Bidley. — DiSTKiB. Java. 



Stems 30 ft., hollow, fragile, glabrous. Stem-sheaths cylindrio, slightly narrowed 

 to the ciliate truncate mouth, strigose with white bristles ; blade leafy, erect ; ligule 

 narrow. Leaves acuminate, base rounded or narrowed, rough on both surfaces, 

 pubescent beneath, midrib narrow, nerves 5-6; sheath smooth, keeled, mouth 

 truncate and margins oiliate with white bristles j ligule short fimbriate. Spikes of 

 panicle with long spreading erect or deflexed spikelets i-| in. long and chaffy bracts, 

 raohis very slender ; empty gls. 2, striate. Anthers green, obtuse. Ovary narrowly 

 ellipsoid. 



4. S. latifolium, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 117, t. 103 ; leaves 9-12 

 by li-23 in. oblong acuminate, spikelets 1-1^ in. long acuminate, empty 



