cLxin. graminEjE. 
263 
Giganiochloa!] 
on the midrib; sheaths striate with a shining callus auricles 
rounded glabrous; ligule as long as petiole, ^ 
long ciliate. Panicle long, branches slender of 
flowered heads i to 4 in. apart, 1-5 in. through, in the axils of 
chaffy bracts. Spikelets of two kinds, sterile, -5 to 75 in. long, of 
glumes sheathed one inside the other, fertile, i to 1-3 in. long, 
across, oblong, flattened, glabrous, of I to 3 empty glumes ovate 
acute or mucronate, 4 or 5 fertile flowem similar, palea shorter 
obtuse, and 2 or 3 incomplete flowers. Ovary very haipi. Hab 
Very rkre. Malacca, collected only by Griffith at Ayer Panas and 
by Cantley without locality given. Naitve name : Buluh 1 ilan. 
(8) G. latispiculata Gamble, An 7 i. BoL Gard. Calc. vii. 67, pi. 
cn* Hnnh dl FBI vii. 400; Ridl. Mat. Hi. log. 
^^'A^tall’Mmboo 50 ft.^high. Leaves broadly lanceolate. 12 to 
14 in long I to 1-3 in. wide, base narrowed, decurrent to a very 
short'petioie. glabrous, acuminate, sheaths smooth, caUus n^row 
ligule bifid. Panicle of slender branches 18 m. long, vuth distant 
heads of few large flattened spikelets i to 2 in. long, -25 in. wide. 
Empty glumes 2 or 3. ovate-lanceolate mucronate, glabrous. Flower- 
furglumes similar but long-acuminate faintly te or not 
edee hairy inside. Palea shorter than glume, with 2 cihate keels. 
Stamens eLert. tube membranous. Ovary narrow 
Hab Very rare, only known from a specimen collected by Mr. 
Cantley’sLllector in Malacca. Native name : Buluh Tilan Mmyak. 
Use: For making baskets. 
78 . OXYTENANTHERA, Munro. 
Usually small arborescent or scandent barnlmos. Culm sheaths 
usuaUv narrow. Leaves small petioled. Panicle large with spicate 
heads of few or many spikelets. Spikelets narrow conical elongate 
of 1I0 3 flowers. Empty glumes i to 3. flowering glumes ovate 
elongate mucronate. Palea of lower flowers ^-keeled of upper 
ones* convolute, little or not keeled, Lodicules 0 Stamens mon 
adelphous exsert, tube thickened, later membranous Ovary 
ovoid. Grain elongate beaked. Species 9, Africa and Ind . 
Glumes edged with black cdia 
Glumes edged with pale hairs. 
Slender plant; spikelets -25 
pubescent 
Big stout plant; spikelets '5 
glabrous 
(i) 0. nigrociliata 
in. long; 
in. long; 
glumes 
glumes 
(2) 0. sinuata 
(3) 0. aurieulata 
(I) O. nigrociliata Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 128; 
Bedd. FI. Sylv, ccxxxiii; Gamble, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. vii. 69, p . 
’Admail slender bamboo 15 to 20 ft. tall, dark green, -5 to 4 m. 
through, walls thin, sheaths 6 in. long or more. 
with brown cilia, narrowed upwards, tip truncate, blade ovate 
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