204 NEW AND BARE SPECIES OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Schizostachyum grande, Eidl. n. sp. 



Culms 60 feet tall, 3 inches through, Lnternodes 2-3 feet 

 long, walls thin. Sheaths over 12 inches long covered with 

 white hairs in fascicles between the nerves: leaves very stiif 

 almost coriaceous, oblong with a somewhat abrupt point : base 

 round, narrowed very shortly to the broad petiole, blades 

 smooth, midrib very prominent edge very minutely serrulate or 

 smooth, nerves 28, petiole .5 in. long, .15 in. wide, sheaths flat- 

 tened: ligule rather large, not bristly. Panicle 12 inches long. 

 Spikelets crowded in tufts .5 — 1 in. apart. Bracts short, ovate: 

 spikelets very slender .5 in. long, glumes lanceolate mucronate 

 strongly ribbed, glabrous. Pulea lanceolate acuminate. Lodi- 

 cules two oblong, lanceolate tip white, eiliate. Stamen anthere 

 shortly apiculate. 



Selangor, Semangkok Pass (Eidley 8457, 12043); (Ma- 

 chado 11591) ; (Curtis 3475) Ginting Bidai j Ridley 778 1 ; ). 



This very fine bamboo forms the greater part of the bam- 

 boo forest at the Semangkok Pass, (iambic in Herb. I\ew sug- 

 gested it was his 8. latifolium based on a plant from Kota 

 Glanggi, a much smaller plant with eiliate glumes. Another 

 plant which he has also written up in Herb. I\ew as >'. latifolia 

 is certainly 8. longispiculata, Kurz, a Javanese Bamboo with 

 very slender stems and much smaller softer leaves. It occurs 

 at Pahang, Kuala Lipis (Machado 11592 and 1151)3): Se- 

 langor. Ginting Bidai (Eidlev 7788) ; Dindings (Ridley 10322 

 and" 8389). 



Schizostachyum subcordatum, Eidl. n. sp. 



Branches slender. Leaves lanceolate acuminate : base 

 broad subcordate o-6 in. long, .75 in. wide, midrib slender; 

 petiole very short; ligule very short, no bristles. Panicles 

 simple, numerous in whorls or terminal on leafy branches 3-4 

 in. long of 7 or 8 clusters of spikelets crowded towards the tip. 

 Bracts ovate mucronate with three ribs from the tip, polished : 

 spikelets very short .15 in. long. Glumes lanceolate smooth. 

 Palea thin, lanceolate acute. Lodicules 0. 



Selangor, Semangkok Pass (Eidley 8482). Allied to 8. 

 chilianthum but differing notably in the narrow lanceolate 

 nearly cordate auricled leaves, and the very small crowded 

 spikelets, which on one spike are crowded into a dense mass 1 

 in. long. The whole plant appears to be perfectly glabrous. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



