CLXIII. GRAMINE^. 
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{Bamhusa. 
Culms 6 to 8 ft. tall; lodicules linear 
Slender, sub-scandent; stamens 3. 
Leaves 1-75 in. wide; panicle large of many 
spikelets ....... 
Spikelets in distant heads, *25 in, long. 
Inflorescence branched ..... 
Inflorescence simple ..... 
(5) B. nana 
(6) B. elegans 
(7) B. Wrayi 
( 8 ) B. pauciflora 
(9) B. Klossii 
(i) B. vulgaris Schrad. in Wendl. Collect, PL ii 26 t 47- 
Gamble, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vii. 43, pi. 40. > • > 
Culms rather distant, bright green, yellow or striped green and 
yellow, 20 to 50 ft. tall, 2 to 4 in. through, internodes 10 to 18 in. 
long, walls rather thin. Culm sheaths 6 to 10 in. long, n to o in. 
wide, top round concave, blade triangular acute, hairy on both 
sides with a hairy auricle on each side. Leaves linear-lanceolate 
base round or narrowed, point long, twisted, scabrid, glabrous or 
when young hairy beneath, 6 to 10 in. long, 75 to 17 in. wide ■ 
petioles -2 in. long, sheaths hairy with a small callus above and rounded 
auricles with a few bristles, ligule short ciliate. Panicle large leafy 
compound, branches spicate with clusters of 3 to 10 spikelets * 
rachis scurfy, or at end hairy. Spikelets -6 to -8 in. long, oblong 
acute compressed. Empty glumes ovate acute ciliate at tip. 
Idowering glumes larger. Palea as long or longer, acute, 2-keeled 
keels white, ciliate. Stamens exsert, purple. Ovary narrow- 
oblong, hairy. Style hairy; stigmas 3 plumose. Hah. Cultivated 
and run wild, or occurring in abandoned villages and such places 
in all tropical countries. Its origin is unknowm; Kurz says it is 
wild in Java. The variety striata, with yellow and green striped 
^Ims, is said to be of Chinese or Japanese origin. Native names : 
Buluh Pan; Buluh Minyak Has. 
(2) B. Blumeaua Schultes fil. Syst. Veg. vii. 2, 1343; Gamble, 
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vii. 50, pi. 47. B. spinosa Bl. Bot, Zeit. 182s' 
p. 580; Ridl. Mat. iii. 183. 
A tall dark green bamboo 30 to 60 ft. tall, 3 to 4 in. through 
forming dense spiny clumps, brpchlets stiff and thorny. Culm- 
sheaths 5 to 6 in. long, 3 to 4 in. wide, striate, with stiff tawny 
bristles. Leaves 5 to 6 together at ends of branches, linear-lanceo¬ 
late, 3 to 6 m. long, -25 in. broad, base rounded; petiole very short, 
glabrous above, glaucous beneath; sheaths appressed hairy 
Panicle large, terminal, branching with spicate branches bearing 
heads of many imperfect and few perfect spikelets, i to 1-5 in 
long, compressed narrow. Empty glumes 2 or 3, ovate acute, 
fertile glumes 6 to 8, ovate acuminate. Palea broad, 2-keeled! 
keels ciliate, terminal empty glume i or 2. Grain ovate! Hab In 
open sandy country, Pahang at Pekan. Perlis, Kanga (Ridley). 
Distnb. Malay islands. Native name: Buluh Duri (thorny 
bamboo). ^ 
I believe this bamboo is indigenous in these places, but it is also cultivated 
to some extent. 
