2^4 CLxiii. GRAMiNE^. \0%yienantheYa. 
lanceolate decurrent, with a bright green naked auricle. Leaves 
6 to 12 in. long, i to 2 in. wide, lanceolate acuminate, tip twisted 
scabrid, glaucous beneath, ligule short. Panicle leafy, spikelets 
few in the whorls which are I to 3 in. apart; rachis hairy. Spike- 
lets *75 to I in. long. Empty glumes 3 to 5, ovate mucronate, 
edged with black hairs. Flowering glumes lanceolate acuminate 
edged with black hairs. Palea narrow obtuse acute or bimucronate. 
Grain linear-oblong. Hah. Open country, not rare in the north. 
Singapore, in hedges (perhaps introduced). Perak, Tapah (Burkill) 
Province Wellesley, Permatang Bertam. Kedah, Alor Sta • 
Nerang Road (Burkill). Perils at Kanga. Setul heath, abundant' 
Kelantan, Sungei Keteh (Foxworthy). Distrih. India, Andamans 
Malay islands. 
In the Kedah plant bristles on the edges of the glumes are often pale 
not black, otherwise the plant does not seem to differ. Gamble again notes 
in the Kew Herbarium that the Singapore plants differ in the auricles of 
the culm and leaf sheaths, and the anthers not penicillate, and suggests that 
it IS a distinct species. I hardly like to separate it, however. 
(2) O. sinuata Gamble, Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. vii. 71, pi. 62 ■ 
Hook. fil. F.B.I. vii. 401; Ridl. Mat. hi. 190. 
Culms slender. Leaves 10 to 12 in. long, oblong-lanceolate 
acuminate, base rounded, nearly cordate, petioles *5 in. long, hair\^ 
tip twisted, glabrous above, pubescent beneath; ligule short hairy' 
Panicle branches long, slender spicate, 2 ft. long or more; rachis 
hairy; spikelets in round heads, *5 in. through and i in. apart. 
Spikelets narrow conic, *25 in. long, pubescent. Empty glumes 
2 or 3, ovate, mucronate, edge pale ciliate, flowering glumes longer. 
Palea blunt or bifid, 2-keeled ciliate. Stamens exsert Ovary 
broadly ovoid hairy. Hab. South of the Peninsula, not very com¬ 
mon. Johor, Gunong Pantai; Ulu Kahang (Kelsall); Sungei 
Ujong, Seremban (Cantley). Native name : Buluh Min\^ak. Use ■ 
For making baskets. 
(3) O. auriculata Prain, Beng. Plants, 1234. Bambusa 
auriculata Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 86; Gamble, Ann. 
Bot. Card. Calc, vii, 55, pi. 49. 
Culms 39 to 50 ft. tall, 2 to 2-25 in. through, scurfy when 
young. Culm sheaths 10 to 12 in. long, 9 to 10 in. wide, blade 
6 to 9 m. long, triangular acute, base 4 in. wide." Leaves lanceolate 
acuminate, edge scabrid, base rounded or attenuate, 8 to " 16 ” in. 
long, I to 2'25 in. wide, sheaths smooth, edges hairy when 
young, with a smooth callus and a small oblong round auricle 
Inflorescence simple, 2 to 2-5 ft. long, with distant heads of spikelets 
2 in. apart and i in. through; rachis when young hairy. Bracts 
ovate acute, hairy on the edge. Spikelets -5 in. long, cylindric. 
Flowers 2. Empty glumes ovate mucronate ribbed, glabrous edge 
with long pale hairs. Upper glumes longer, lanceolate acute 
edge long, hairy. Palea keeled, ciliate on keel. Stamens in lower 
