CLXIII. GRAMINE^. 
260 
[hamhusa. 
lanceolate mucronulate, smooth, shining. Palea lanceolate keeled 
and ciliate. Lodiciiles very large obciineate fimbriate. Stamens 6, 
filaments free; anthers linear acute, purple. Ovary oblong conic, 
glabrous. Style with 3 long white-plumed stigmas. Hab, Moun¬ 
tains, Kedah Peak, at 3000 ft. altitude (Robinson and Kloss 6069). 
A very curious species, allied apparently to B. Griffithiana, Munro, of 
Burma, remarkable for its very large fimbriate lodicules. The spikelets are 
very young, and the uppermost flower is too young to make out. 
77. GIGANTOCHLOA, Kurz. 
Arborescent or climbing bamboos, generally very large. Culm 
sheaths broad auricled. Leaves large. Panicle compound, large 
with long branches, heads of few or many spikelets, sterile and 
fertile, mixed, distant. Empty glumes 2 or 3, ovate or lanceolate. 
Fertile glumes large and similar. Palea with 2 ciliate keels. 
Lodicule 0, or i to 3. Stamens 6; filaments connate into a tube 
at first thick, afterwards thin membranous and elongate. Ovary 
hairy; stigmas i to 3 hairy. Grain oblong or linear, grooved. 
Pericarp membranous. Species ii, Burma and Malaya. 
Spikelets ovate rounded small pubescent 
Spikelets oblong-ovate flattened velvety 
Spikelets narrow cylindric acute, -25 to -5 in. long, 
glabrous except the hairy edges of the 
glume. 
Ligule short. 
Mouth of leaf-sheath ciliate; leaves broad 
Mouth of leaf-sheath not ciliate. 
Spikelets *5 in. long; leaves narrow . 
Spikelets -25 in. long; leaves broad 
Ligule very long ...... 
Spikelets of two kinds, one long, broad, flat . 
Spikelets all similar, broad, flat, 1 in. long 
(1) G. verticillata 
(2) G. Scortechinii 
(3) G. Wrayi 
(4) G. Kurzii 
(5) G.latiiolia 
(6) G. ligulata 
(7) G. heterostachya 
( 8 ) G. latispiculata 
(i) G. verticillata Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 124; 
Gamble, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vii. 61, pi. 52; Ridl. Mat. hi. 186. 
A lofty bamboo 60 to 80 ft. tall, 4 to 5 in. through, green or 
striped with yellow when young, internodes 18 in. long. Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, base narrowed, 10 to 18 in. long, 1*5 to 2*5 in, 
wide, hairy beneath when young, later glabrous; sheaths hairy at 
first, glabrescent, top truncate; callus narrowed; auricles short 
rounded; ligule short. Panicle compressed, branches 2 ft. long 
or more with distant heads, small to i in. through, of ovate sub¬ 
acute spikelets -13 to *25 in. long, pubescent. Empty glumes 
2 or 3, ovate broad acute. Flowering glumes ovate mucronate. 
Palea shorter, oblong, bi-mucronate, 2-keeled. Stamen-tube long 
membranous, anthers 6, tip hair5^ Lodicules i to 3, Ovary' very 
hairy. Hah. In old cultivated ground; not common, probably 
introduced. Singapore. Perak, Grit (Foxw'orthy). Dfs/nZ). Malay 
islands. Native names : Buluh Seremai; Buluh Senieliang. 
