Gigantochloa!] cLxiii. GRAMiNEiE. 261 
(2) G. Scortechinii Gamble, A nn. Bot. Gard. Calc, vii, 62, pi. 53 ; 
Hook. fil. F.B.I. vii. 398; Ridl. Mat. iii. 186. 
Stems 30 to 40 ft. tall, 2 to 4 in. through, internodes 1-5 ft. long. 
Culm-sheaths 6 to 8 in. long, covered with rather long scattered 
bristles mixed with short white ones. Leaves to i ft. long and 
2 in. wide, oblong-lanceolate softly hairy pubescent beneath, with 
a few long stiff bristles, bases broad; petioles very short; sheaths 
with callus densely pubescent, auricles rounded, bristles few, 
white, stiff. Panicle large; branches 2 ft. long, stout; rachis 
pubescent. Spikelets few, cylindric, acute, i in. long, densely 
velvety hairy, in tufts, i to 4 in. apart. Empty glumes 2 or 3, 
ovate mucronate. Flowering glumes 3 to 5, longer. Palea shorter 
bifid, keels ciliate. Lodiculeo. Stamen-tube long. Grain ellipsoid, 
top truncate, hairy. Hab. Forests up to 2700 ft. altitude, often 
covering large areas and on river banks. Selangor, Batu Caves; 
Semangkok Pass; Bukit Hitam. Perak, Ulu Kerling (Kunstkr); 
ten miles west of Grit (Burkill); Temengoh (Ridley). Kelantan, 
Tanjong Telok Lalu (Haniff). Native names: Buluh Rayah; 
Buluh Pah Hao. 
(3) G. Wrayi Gamble, Ann. Bot. Card. Calc, vii, 64, pi. 55; 
Hook. fit. F.B.I. vii. 399; Ridl. Mat. iii. 187. 
Culms 3 in. through, glaucous scurfy. Leaves 12 to 15 in. 
long, 2 to 5 in. wide, oblong-lanceolate cuspidate, alternate rounded 
at base; apex setaceous, strigosely hairy beneath; midrib broad, 
petioles -2 to *3 in. long, sheaths smooth, callus narrow, auricles 
short, fringed with long stiff, white bristles; ligule short pubescent. 
Panicle compound, branches with heads of few fertile and several 
sterile flowers and numerous bracts. Rachis pubescent. Spikelets 
conic, somewhat flattened, -8 in. long. Empty glumes 2 or 3, 
oval mucronate fringed with stiff dark hairs. Flowering glumes 
longer, similar. Palea oblanceolate bifid, keels 2 or o, not ciliate. 
Stamen-tube thick, finally membranous; anthers very long, tip 
setaceous hairy. Ovary hairy ovate, Hab. Rare, Perak, Bukit 
Gantang (Wray), Native name: Buluh Plang. 
(4) G. Kurzii Gamble, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vii. 65, pi. 56; 
Hook. fil. F.B.I. vii. 399; Ridl. Mat. iii. 187. 
Culms 20 ft. tall, 1*5 to 4 in. through, walls very thick. Culm- 
sheaths glabrous, 6 in, long, 3 in. wide, edge bristly, limb longer, 
recurv’ed lanceolate acuminate, decurrent in a narrow black band 
lining the top of the sheath and ending in a small round black 
auricle; ligule narrow. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 8 to 13 in, long, 
•5 to 1-5 in. wide, base narrowed to petiole -2 in. long, glabrous 
above, glaucous with scattered hairs beneath; midrib narrow, 
sheaths hairy when young. Panicle of rather stiff slender branches; 
spikelets few, occasionally more numerous in heads -5 to i in. 
apart, broad lanceolate acuminate, *5 in. long, -i in. wide. Rachis 
smooth slender. Empty glumes 2 or 3, ovate, striate at top. 
