OeMandra.] ctxxiii. GRAMiNEiE. (Bdmlusece, G&mhle.) 419 



' - V'ar. sihagiriana. Gamble I.e. 122, t. 108; spikelets rather larger, atamens up 

 ■ to 60, leaves generally larger'. — Pulney and Sivagiri HUla, Bed3^me. 



2. O. strldula, Thw. JEnum. Fl.Zeyl.Z1Q ; leaves 8-12 by 1^-2^ in. 

 oblong-lanceolate, young sheath hirsute, auricles falcate fringed with 

 bristles, spikelets 1 in. cylindro-conioal sparsely hairy, empty gls. 2-3 

 convolute raucronate ciliate, flg. gl. larger, anther tips 2-fid and mucronate. 

 Trimen Gat. Oeyl. PI. 110 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 123, t. 109. Beesha 

 stridula, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 145 ; B.^idoine Fl.^Sylvat. 

 Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiv. Bambusa stridula. Moon Gat. Ceyl. Pl.'w. 



Ceylon ; in the soatheru parts of the Island, Thwaiies. 



Stems 6-18 ft. by ^f in. diam., tufted, light green, geniculate, nodes ringed ; 

 internodea 12-14 in., scabrous. Stem-sheaths persistent, cylindric, glabrous, young 

 purple, tip rounded with falcate small fringed auricles; blade subulate. Leaves 

 broiid, somewhat rough beneath, base rounded, petiole broad, midrib slender, nerves 

 10-12 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands. Spikelets in a terminal panicle, whorled, 

 few fertile, rachis of spike long, rough, glaucous. Lodiexiles Q-Vi o\- more, lanceolate, 

 1- many-nerved, convolute. Stamens up to 30, filaments free, flat. Ova/ry narrow, 

 beak trigonous ; stigmas 4-5, plumose, at first twisted. Fruit 1 in., ovoid, beak 1 in. 



Var, maculata, Gamble 1. c. 124 ; stem greyish-green mottled with dark purplish 

 blotches. Teinostachyum ? maculatum. Trim, in Journ, Bot. xxiii. (1885) 273, 

 Cat. Ceyl. PI. 110. — Ceylon, Ferguson. 



3. O. Beddomej, Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 124, t. 110; leaves 6-8 

 by I-I5 in. oblong-lanceolate margins revolnte, auricles deourrent fringed 

 with bristles, spikelets 1-lJ in. hirsute, empty gls. 2 ovate long-mnoronate 

 many-nerved, flg. gl. 1^ in. ovate-lanceolate mucronate many-nerved 

 glabrous, anther tips 2-fid and mucronate. 



NlLQHlEl HiLlS ; in the Wynaad district, Beddome. 



Leaves long-acuminate, base unequally rounded, subglaucpus beneath, midrib 

 slender, nerves about 8 pairs ; sheaths pnberulous, margins ciliate, callus narrow. 

 Panicle short, spicate, terminating a leafy branchlet; rachis stiff, puberulous. 

 Spikelets few together, cylindric-conical, 2-3-bracteate, hairs tuberous-based, brown, 

 spreading; palea 1 in., membranous, acute or obtuse. Lo&icules 5, all different, 

 3-7-nerved, entire or 2-fid. Stamens about 82. Ovary subglobose, beak embracing 

 the style, stigmas 5-6 plumose. 



** Stamens mam), ligule short, fllamients coherent. 



4. O. travancorica, Benth. ex Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 125, t. Ill ; 

 leaves 6-18 by %-% in. broadly oblong-lanceolate, auricles short falcate 

 spikelets 2-2| in. ovoid or ovoid-oblong, glabrous, empty gls. usually 3, 

 lowest truncate tip subulate upper 2 in. long-acuminate, flg. gl. like the 

 upper empty, anther-tips penioillate. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 125, t. 111. 

 Beesha travancorica, Beddome Fl. Sylvdt. t. cccxxiv. Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiv. 



Tbavanoobb and Tinneveilt, alt. 2-5000 ft., Beddome, &c. (monopolizing 

 miles of country). 



An erect gregarious reed-like bamboo. Stems 6-20 ft. by 1-2 in. diam., nodes 

 swollen and scarred ; internodes lJ-5 ft., rough ; walls very thin. Stem-sheaths 

 6-8 in., thin, vertically wrinkled, young strigose with tuberous-based hairs, tip 

 truncately rounded, fringed with bristles ; blade subulate. Leaves glabrous or 

 scaberulons, base rounded, petiole broad, midrib thick below, nerves 12-17 pairs, 

 tessellate by pellucid glands ; sheath glabrous, keeled, margins ciliate, callus shining ; 

 ligule short, truncate. Spikelets a few fertile and a few much smaller sterile together 

 in the axils of ovate-lanceolate smooth bracts with subulate deciduous tips ; single 



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