Schizostacliyum^ cLxiii. gramine^e. 271 
Empty glumes 2, oblong, flowering glumes much larger, ovate lanceo¬ 
late, long mucronate, often ciliate on edges. Lodicules 3 or 4, ciliate. 
Stamens, anthers blunt, connective with a pemciUate point. Hab. 
Singapore, Blakan Mati. Pahang, Kota Glanggi; Tanjong Antan. 
Malacca, Sungei Hudang (Ridley). 
The Blakan Mati plant has strongly ribbed leaves and a few minor points 
of difierence in the flowers from the type (Kota Glanggi). 
(q) S. grande Ridl. 
Culms Co ft. tall, 3 in. through, internodes 2 to 3 ft. long, walls 
thin: sheaths over i ft. long, covered with white hairs in fascicles 
between the ner\'es. Leaves very stiff, oblong, rather abruptly 
acuminate, base round, shortly rounded into a broad petiole -5 m. 
long -15 in. wide, blade 12 to 18 in. long, 3 to 3-5 in. wide; sheaths 
smooth, ligules large, not bristly. Panicle spicate. i ft. long. Spikes 
•S to I in. apart. Bracts ovate, glabrous. Spikelets very slender, 
•4 in. long, glabrous. Glumes ribbed, shortly mucronate. Stamens 
not apiculate. Hah. Mountains, Selangor, Semangkok Pass and 
Ginting Bidai (Ridley). Kelaiitan, Kelumpur (Hamff). Native 
name: Buluh Telor. 
(10) S. elegans Ridl. , , j 
Stems slender, smooth, -i in. through, branches slender, wliorled. 
Leaves thin, lanceolate acuminate, pubescent beneath, margins 
denticulate, base narrowed to the very short petiole. Cm. long, 
•75 in. wide, ligule of few rather long bristles, sheath hairy. Panicles 
graceful, 15 in. long, slightly geniculate, branches 2 to 4 m. long. 
Spikelets -25 in. long, light green, 4 or 5 in a fascicle, with several 
ovate chaffy bracts at base; fascicles little over -25 in. apart. 
Glume I ovate; glume II longer, lanceolate, shortly mucronate; 
glume III still longer, mucronate; glume IV sirnilar, but longer. 
Palea a little shorter, lanceolate, not keeled. Stamens 6; 
filaments free, anthers exsert oblong obtuse, violet. 
conic, stipitate, sub-triquetrous; style simple. Gram obliquely 
blunt, conic and stipitate. Hab. Lankawi islands, common 
(Haniff). 
Cultivated by Mohammed Haniff in Penang Gardens and floiAcred in 
March 1915. 
(ii) S. dumosum Ridl. Journ. Roy. rls. Soc. S. Br. 61, p. 64. 
A slender erect bamboo 6 to 7 ft. tall, -15 in. through, mternodes 
6 in long, smooth. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, base broad, 
6 in long; *75 to i in. wide; petioles -i in. long, no ligules. Inflores¬ 
cence 2 ft. long, with tufts of branches 6 in. or less from the nodes. 
Spikelets in tufts, *5 in. long, crowded. Bracts papery% ovate, *15 in. 
long. Spikelets *25 in. long, acuminate. Empty glumes ovate 
Elowering glumes lanceolate. Stamens 3, connate, (^ary l^ake 
with a long conic beak, hairy. Hab. On dry rocks on Pulau Raw^ei, 
Pulau Adang islands, forming dense thickets (Ridley). 
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