268 CLxiii. GRAMiNE^. [DinocMoa. 
What seems to be another species grows at the foot of Gunong Pulai in 
Johor by the stream. The stem, -i in. through, scabrid, twines round the 
trees, the leaf branches hanging dowm. The leaves are broad lanceolate with 
round bases 4-5 in. long, i in. wide. I could find no trace of inflorescence. 
Gamble suggests it is D. Tjankorreh, but the whole habit and form of leaf are 
different from this plant. 
82 . SCHIZOSTACHYUM, Nees. 
Usually slender erect or climbing bamboos. Culms smooth and 
thin-walled; sheaths short, auricles small. Leaves broad or narrow, 
petioled. Panicle terminal, of spike-like branches bearing i or 
more heads of spikes, Spikelets slender, cylindric, acute. Empty 
glumes I to 3, narrow mucronate; rachilla elongate between them. 
Flowering glumes i or 2, convolute. Palea similar, not keeled. 
Lodicules 0 to 4. Stamens 6, free. Ovary narrow, pericarp pro¬ 
duced into a beak containing the keel. Grain ovoid beaked, beak 
sloping; pericarp crustaceous. Species 17, i from Madagascar, 
the rest Malay Peninsula and islands and China. 
A very beautiful species, with softly yellow culms and the leaves often 
marked with white, the culms close together and about 20 ft. tall, cultivated 
in gardens, is a variety of S. brachycladum, Kurz. from Borneo. 
Heads of spikelets i or 2 on slender branches . (i) 
Panicles simple of distant heads. 
Slender bamboos. 
Leaves -75 in. wide, base cuneatc . . . {2) 
Leaves 2-25 in. wide, base cuneate . . (3) 
Leaves -75 in. wide, sub-cordate auricled . (4) 
Stout bamboos i in. through; leaves broad. 
Spikelets •! in. long, glabrous or nearly . (5) 
Spikelets 1-5 in. long, hairy, very slender . (6) 
Spikelets i in. long; glumes hairy on edge . (7) 
Spikelets i to 1-5 in. long; glumes ciliate on 
tip.(8) 
Very large bamboo 3 in. through; leaves stiff 
coriaceous ...... (9) 
Panicles much-branched; stems slender, branched, 
whorled, 
Spikelets *15 in. long; leaves narrow . . (10) 
Spikelets-25 in. long, thick; leaves narrow . (ii) 
Spikelets '5 in. long, slender; leaves broad . {12) 
S. tenue 
S. chilianthum 
S. Zollingeri 
S. subcordatum 
S. longispiculatum 
S. aciculare 
S. insulare 
S. latifolium 
S. grande 
S. elegans 
S. diimosum 
S. Biumei 
(i) S. tenue Gamble, Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. vii. 114, pi. 100; 
Hook. fil. F.B.l. vii. 415; Ridl. Mai. iii. 194. Melocanna gracilis 
Kiirz. in Mimro, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 133. 
A slender weak bush bamboo, 12 ft. tall; culm green, -5 in. 
through, branches whorled, sheaths oblong, glabrous, 3 in. long, 
mouth bearded, limb triangular acuminate, 2-5 in. long. Leaves 
narrow linear-lanceolate, 4 to 6 in. long, -3 to 75 in. across, apex 
subulate, base broad. Inflorescence a terminal spike of i, rarely 
2 or 3 heads with few narrow spikelets and i or more chaffy bracts 
•5 in. long. Empty glumes i or 2, ovate acuminate, 5- to 7-nerved, 
