418 OLXXiii. GRAMiNB^.. (SambtisecB, Gamble.) IMelocanna. 



12-20 in.,, walls thin. Stem-sTieaths 5-6 in. by 6-12 at the base, yellow, marpns 

 straight for f up, then waved, auricles often long-fringed ; blade up to 1 ft., base 

 1 in. broad; decurrent in a narrow strip along the top of the sheath ; ligule very 

 narrow, serrate. Leaves from fascicled branches, tip long twisted scabrous, 

 glaucescent beneath, yonng hairy, margins ciliate, inner and 2-3 adjoining nerves 

 scabrous, midrib prominent, nerves 8-12 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands; sheath 

 glabrous, auricles pointed, ciliate and bearing 10-12 large whitish bristles ; ligule 

 very short. Panicle with drooping branches. Spihelets about i in., glabrous ; empty 

 ^Is. with sometimes abortive buds. Lodicules erose, 3-5-nerved. Frttit up to 3-6 

 by a-? in. 



2. UK. bumilis, Eurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 569 ; atem-sheatlia very shori; 

 glabrous P mouth much produced rounded inflated and sinuate, Ipaves 4-6 

 by |-1 in. lanceolate to linear-lanceolate roughish pnberulous beneath, 

 base obtuse, petiole about ^ in., sbeathi glabrous mouth minutely anricled 

 deoiduously long-fringed. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 120, t. 106. 



Aeeacan and Pe&u, Kurz. 



Known chieBy from the leaves and sheath. Stems 8-15 by 1 in. diam. ; nodes 

 hardly thickened, internodes about 1 ft. Blade of stem-sheath linear, erect, decurrent 

 in a narrow nude green strip bordering the sinuses ; ligule very narrow, entire. 



146. OCKXiAVDRA, Thwaites. 



Shrubby, gregajrious, reed-like Bamboos. Stems erect, internodes rather 

 long, thin-walled. Stem-sheaths thin, persistent, auricles small. Leaves 

 as in Bamhusa, margins cartilaginons, nerves many; sheath striate, fringed ; 

 Ijgnle (except in one sp.) short. Spikelets fertile and sterile mixed, or 

 vf horled on terminal spikes or spicate panicles from a leafy branchlet, often 

 very large," 1-fld. ; empty gls. 2-5, usually muoronate ; flg. gl. like the 

 uppermost empty, mucronate ; palea membranous, not or faintly 2-keeled. 

 Lodicules 1 or more, usually appressed to the filaments. Stamens 6-120, 

 filaments free or monadelphous, exserted; anthers long, narrow. Ova/ry 

 narrow, style elongated, stigmas 3'-6. Fruit large, ovoid, long-beaked, 

 pericarp fleshy. — Species the following. 



* Stamens many, ligules short, filaments free. 



1. O. Rbeedii, Benth. ex OambleBamh. Brit. Ind. 121, 1. 107 ; leaves 

 4-10 by 3-1t in. linear-lanceolate, sheath smooth, auricles falcate fringed 

 with bristles, spikelets cylindric acute glabrous, sterile g-f in., fertile 

 1-1|^ in., empty gls. 2-3 broadly ovate mucronate many-nerved, flg. gl. 

 larger subacute, anthers muoronate. Beesha Rheedii, Kwith Fnwm. PI. i. 

 434 {excl. all oit.- hat Bheede) ; Bupr. Bamb. 65 ; Munro in, Trans. JAnn. 

 Soc. xxvi. (1868) 144; Beddome Fl. Sybiat. Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiv. 

 Melocanna Rheedii, Steud. Syn. Gram. 332. Bambusa scriptoria, Dennst. 

 Schluess. Hort. Malab. 31.—Bkeede Mart. Mai. v. t. 60. 



Cochin and Tbavancobb, White, Johnstone, &c. 



Stems erect, up to 16 ft. by 1 in. diam. ; nodes somewhat raised ; internodes 

 about 17 in., walls i in. thick. Stem-sheaths 4-6 in., purplish-green, young hairy, 

 margins ciliate, top rounded-truncate, auricles falcate long-ciliate j blade subulate, 

 base hairy within ; ligule short, ciliate. Leaves usually small, base rounded, smooth 

 on both surfaces, midrib narrow, nerves 5-10 pairs. Spikes or spicate panicles 

 terminal or axillary on leafy bratichlets. Palea convolute, long-mucronate, base 

 membranous, Lodicules many, J-t| in., acute, glabrous, 1-7 -nerved. Stamens 15-18. 

 Ovarg oblong, style embraced by the enlarged perigynium, stigmas 3, plumose. Frmt 

 oblong, long-beaked. 



