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IBamhusa. 
long, smooth, limb lanceolate acuminate, 3 in. long, mouth long 
ciliate. Leaves oblong-lanceolate acuminate, base narrowed, 
10 in. long, 75 in. wide; ligule long bifid, -25 in. long, lobes rounded, 
edged with stiff bristles. Spikelets i to 2 in. long, a few together 
in distant whorls on leafy or nude branches. Glumes empty, 2 to 4, 
ovate mucronate, ribbed. Flowering glumes ovate-lanceolate, 
mucronate. Palea shorter, oblong acute, bifid. Lodicules 3, 2 
lanceolate, i ovate. Hab. Rare and local. In dense forest in one 
spot on Bukit Timah Hill, Singapore (Ridley). 
(4) B. magica Journ. Roy. .ds. Soc. S. Br. 44 )..P* 208; 
Mat. hi. 184. B. nana Gamble, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vii. 41 (in 
part) (not of Roxburgh). 
Stems about 20 ft. tall, *5 in. through or less, smooth, branches 
tufted at the nodes, internodes i in. long. Leaves lanceolate 
acuminate, 3 in. long, -5 in. wide, base narrowed to a short petiole, 
sheath auricled with white cilia. Spikelets in short panicles, 
lanceolate, 75 in. long, -25 in. wide. Empty glume i, lanceolate- 
ovate. Flowering glumes 7, lanceolate mucronate, edges ciliate. 
Lodicules 3, lanceolate ciliate. Hab. High hills, rare. Perak, 
Gunong Berumban (Wray). Native name: Buluh Perindu. Use: 
in love-charms by the natives (see Wray, Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 
21, p. 159). 
(5) B. nana Roxb. Hort. Beng. 25; FI. Ind. ii. 190; Gamble, 
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc, vu. 40, pi. 38. 
Shrubby bamboo with close-set slender stems 6 to 10 ft. tall, 
•5 in, through. Culm-sheaths 4 to 6 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad, 
blade linear acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long hairy, or glabrous above, 
hairy beneath, edges ciliate. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 4 in. long, 
•5 in. wide; sheaths smooth with a prominent callus and auricles 
fringed with a few stiff bristles. Inflorescence of 4 or more slender 
branches in a whorl, the main branch rebranched, about 2-5 ft. 
long, spikelets C3dindric, pale straw-colour, glabrous, -5 in. long, 
solitary or clustered, the terminal flower only perfect. Empty 
glumes none or rarely i. Flowering glumes ovate acute. Palea 
shorter, 2-keeled ciliate at tip. Lodicules 3, unequal, linear. 
Stamens blunt or apiculate, yellow, free. Ovary obovate, pubescent. 
Style very short, divided into 3 long feathery stigmas. Grain 
elliptic hairy above, shortly beaked. Hab. Abandoned cultivations, 
largely used for hedges all over the peninsula and occasionally found 
persisting after disappearance of cultivation, Singapore, Penang 
Hill. It seldom flowers except in such spots. Distrib. China and 
Japan. Cultivated all over the East. Native name : Buluh China. 
(6) B. elegans Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 44, p. 209; 
Mat. iii. 185. 
A slender bamboo sub-scandent. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, 
2 to 3 in. long, i in. wide; petioles very short; ligule oblong. 
Flowering branches slender, -12 in. through. Branchlets in whorls 
