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87. oraminej:. 



\Oxyienanthefa, 



Stems not much used in K^nara as other and better kinds of bamboos 

 are everywhere abundant. 



1. O. Stocksii, Munro ; Trans. Linn. Soc. 26 to 130 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. 

 233. Konda, Oor sheme, K. 



Commonly cultivated along the coast, rare in the ghat forests of North 

 Kanara. A strong bamboo, used for punting poles and for making native 

 umbrellas and baskets. Flowering culms are frequently found. A large 

 unarmed bamboo 30 ft. high by 1 — 1*5 in. in diam. Culms covered when 

 young with a white or grey, deciduous tomentum. Culm sheaths striated, 

 silvery, shining within, covered outside with closely matted, reddish, 

 deciduous hairs amongst which are numerous minute hairs from a 

 bulbous, black base. The articulate, acuminate ligula is bearded at each 

 side of its broad base. The lower culm-nodes develop rings of aerial 

 roots. 



0. Thivaitesii, Munro. Common on the Bababuden Hills of Mysore 

 55Q0U-.600O ft. Was in flower during the rainy season of 1896. 



4. OCHLANDRA, Thw. 



Unarmed bamboos. The spikelets in heads forming either an 

 interrupted spike or arranged in a large terminal capitulum. 

 Spikelets 1-flowered, rachilla inarticulate, often produced beyond 

 the flower in a short stipe_, flower hermaphrodite. Empty glumes 

 many, muticous or mucronate^ not keeled, many-nerved, spirally 

 arranged, the smallest at the bottom. Stamens many (6 — 40)_, 

 exserted in the old flowers. Ovary long acuminate, glabrous ; 

 style elongate^ shortly 4-6-fid, stigmas 3-5, pilose. Caryopsis large, 

 ovoid, conical, acuminate^ beaked, supported by the persistent 

 glumes ; pericarp very thick, fleshy ; seed free, sub globose. 



O. Rheedii, Yar. sivagiriana, Gamble. Hook and Benth. Gen. Plant. S. 

 1214 ; Beesha, Munro ; Trans. Linn. Soc. 6. 145 ; Beddome Fl. Syl. 234. 

 Hooda, M. ; Wontenulgiy K, 



An unarmed bamboo growing in dense clumps of many culms, hollow, 

 slender, '5 - *75 in. in diam, green, scaberulous, sometimes scandent, nodes 

 thickened, shining glabrous. Leaves glabrous, pale, many-nerved, 

 lanceolate, long acuminate; petioled ; up to 10' X 2*5"; ligula bearded. 

 FJ. in axillary or terminal clusters or spikes. Empty glumes hairy 

 at tips. Stamens up to 40, filaments long, slender ; anthers linear '5 in. ; 

 connective minutely apiculate ; staminodes 6, linear, '75 in. long. Ovary 

 prolonged into a slender style 1*5 in. long, stigmas 5, papillose. Fruit 

 ovoid 2-3 in. long by '3 in. in diameter gradually narrowed into a long 

 beak surrounded at the base by 4 glumes. This species flowered during 

 1896 throughout N. Kanara, and, as far as I can ascertain, had never 

 before been seen in flower in that district. Good specimens sent to 

 Kew were said to be 0. stridtda) Munro, a Ceylon species. Mr, Gamble 

 however named it as above. It certainly seems to me to differ from both 

 ttese species. 



