210 NEW MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Selangor. On the Ulu Semangko hill, (Buru-Murdach. 

 Ridley). 



This elegant tufted bamboo is abundant at the top of 

 the big hill above the iSemangko pass. As nearly all the 

 flowers both in Mr. Burn-Murdoch's original specimens 

 and the ones got afterwards by me have nearly all the 

 flowers destroyed by ir sects I have had some difficulty 

 in making out the structure and am not very certain as 

 to which genus this bamboo should be referred to, but I 

 think it should be referred to Bambusa. The stems are 

 tall and slender, half scandent among the low trees of the 

 hill top. 



Din odd oa montana, n. sp. 



Culms long and scrambling slender smooth with 

 whorled branches. Leaves lanceolate acuminate 8 inches 

 long, one inch wide glabrous, tips scabrid bases unequal 

 slightly alternate into a short petiole §- inch long, sheaths 

 smooth flattened stiiate with a low callus minutely 

 pubescent, not ciliate. Panicle long, rachus very pubes- 

 cent with distant heads of spikelets j>-2± inches apart 

 spikelets ^ to \ inch long, straw colored one flowered. 

 Empty glumes 4 ovate obtuse strongly keeled and 

 mucronate rachilla stout flexuous. Flowering glume 

 lanceolate, ribbed minutely mucronate. Palea oblong 

 with two nerves not keeled nor ciliate. Lodicules 6 

 spathulate oblong strongly nerved edges ciliate. Grain 

 oblong beaked narrowed at the base channelled along 

 one side, beak minutely hairy. 



Penang Hill forming dense masses at an altitude of 

 3000 feetrf-in forest (Ridley 7064, 7265, 10171). 



This slender climbing bamboo differs fromZ). Tjanlorreh 

 in its larger spikelets with 4 empty glumes, and lanceolate 

 flowering glume, and the presence of 6 lodicules. 



Dendrocalamus pe7idulus, n. sp. 



Culms about 60 feet tall arched, 3 inches through, with 

 long slender pendulous branches dark green below 



Jour. Straits Branch 



