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glaucescent above, walls rather thick, internodes 9 inches 

 long 1 nodes rough with short projecting rootlets at the 

 base. Culmsheaths 6 to 9 inches long hard, covered at 

 first with white woolly appressed hairs in fascicles, limb 

 narrow lanceolate acute 4 inches or more long caducous. 

 Auricles large dark red with long white cilia. Leaves 

 lanceolate oblong acuminate thin glabrous 5-6 inches 

 long J to inch wide, base broad truncate, edges scabrid 

 at the tip, peiiole short thick T \ inch long sheaths 

 minutely pubescent, top truncate ligule very short, with 

 few or no cilia at the mouth. Panicle of simple spikes 

 of heads on the ends of the leafy branches with occas- 

 sionally one or more branchlets. Heads of spikes crowd- 

 ed -J inch long, with broad sheaths yellow with a short 

 limb at the base. Spikelets £ inch long glabrous shining 

 oblong cylindric numerous l flowered. Empty glumes 

 ovate glabrous 2. Flowering glumes longer lanceolate. 

 Palea as long 2 nerved not keeled convolute, lanceolate. 

 Lodicules none. Stamens 6, anthers oblong minutely 

 apiculate filaments narrow linear free. Ovary conic 

 short hairy, style simple hairy, 



Selangor Pahang Track ( Ridley 8482) alt. 2000 feet. 

 This superb bamboo with its long arching culms and 

 long pendulous branchlets has long been cultivated in 

 Singapore Botanic Gardens, but has not flowered there. 

 The flowers are described from a plant in high forest in 

 Selangor, quite resembling that cultivated in the Singa- 

 pore Gardens. The young culm sheaths are covered with 

 fine white hair, as if coated with mildew. This dis- 

 appears in the full grown sheaths altogether. 



R, A, Soc, No. U, 1905, 



