146 NEW AND BARE MALAYAN PLANTS. 



Dendrocalamus hirtellus, n. sp. (Graminece) . A tall bamboo, 

 about 40 feet long, and 2 inches through, but rather weak, 

 walls thin, internodes long. Leaves broad, oblong, acuminate, 

 with a long point, base broad rounded, glabrous above, softly 

 pubescent beneath, 11 inches long, 1*5 inches wide; petiole 

 thick, -1 inch long, glabrous; ligule of few stiff bristles; sheath 

 glabrous. Panicle branches pendulous, 3 feet long. Spikelets 

 in dense heads *5 inches through and 1*5 inches apart; bracts 

 numerous ovate acute keeled. Glume I, lanceolate; glume II 

 similar, but longer many nerved; III twice as long as I, 

 mucronate; IV similar longer. Palea shorter, lanceolate, 

 three-nerved, pale. Stamens 6, filaments free : anthers ob- 

 long, muticous, exsert. Style simple shortly plumed. 



Johore: in forests at Genuang (Ridley) April 1915. 



Schizostachyum elegans, n. sp. ( Graminece) . Stems slender, 1 

 inch through ; walls rather thick : internodes long and weak ; 

 branches slender, whorled. Leaves thin, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 pubescent beneath, margins denticulate, base narrowed to the 

 very short petiole, 6 inches long, -75 inches wide; ligule of few 

 rather long bristles; sheath hairy. Panicles graceful, 15 

 inches long slightly geniculate, branches 2-4 inches long : 

 spikelets -25 inches long, light green, 4 or 5 in a fascicle, 

 with several ovate bracts at base, fascicles little over -25 

 inches apart. Glume I ovate; II longer, lanceolate, shortly 

 mucronate; III still longer, mucronate; IV similar but 

 longer. Palea a little shorter, lanceolate, not keeled, glume- 

 like but thinner. Stamens 6 ; filaments free ; anthers exsert, 

 oblong, obtuse, violet. Ovary conic, stipitate, subtriquetrous : 

 style simple, grain obliquely blunt conic stipitate. 



Kedah: Lankawi Islands: common, cultivated in the 

 Botanic Gardens Penang, where it forms a large bush of sar- 

 mentose habit and where it flowered in March 1915. 



