CLXin. GRAMINS.E. 
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[Schizostachyimi. 
(12) S. Blumei Nees, AgrosL Braz, 535; Rtiprechi Bamboo, 43, 
t. xvi, xvii. fig. 4; Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 136; Gamble, 
Ann. Bot. Card. Calc. vii. 116, pi. 112: Ridl. Mai. iii. 195. 
Culms up to 30 it. tall, fragile; sheaths attenuate to mouth 
with white bristles at the mouth, limb erect. Leaves 9 to 10 in, 
long, I to 1-75 in. wide, oblong-lanceolate, base rounded or narrowed; 
petioles *25 in. long, tip subulate, hispid beneath. Panicles slender, 
simply, spicate or branched. Spikelets -5 in. long, c^dindric acumin¬ 
ate crowded, subtended by chaffy bracts. Empty glumes oblong, 2, 
separated from each other by ciliate rachillse. Flowering glumes 
longer. Palea i or 2. Ovary ellipsoid, long-beaked. Lodicules 0. 
Ii(^. Singapore, Selitar (Ridley) probably introduced from Java 
and other Malay islands. Native name : Buluh Juron. 
83 . OCHLANDRA, Thw. 
Shrubby reed-like bamboos. Culm thin-walled, internodes 
long, sheaths thin, auricles small. Leaves broad. Inflorescence in 
terminal spikes or panicle. Spikelets, whorls fertile and sterile 
mixed, i-flowered. Empty glumes i to 3. Flowering glumes 
similar. Palea membranous, not keeled. Lodicules i or several, 
conspicuous. Stamens 6 to 120, free or connate. Ovary narrow; 
style long; stigmas 4 to 6, plumose. Grain very large, ovoid, beaked 
with a fleshy pericarp. Species 7, Indo-Malaya. 
(i) O. Ridleyi Gamble, Ajtn. Bot. Gard. Calc. vii. p. 127, pi. 115; 
Ridl. Mat. iii. 197. 
About 20 ft. tall or less. Leaves 9 to 10 in. long, i to 1-5 in. 
wide, oblong-lanceolate; petioles -2 in. long, glabrous; sheaths short, 
glabrous except the ciliate auricles. Inflorescence spicate, heads 
crowded, sub-distichous; bracts ovate truncate, fimbriate, with 
an ovate limb. Spikelets i in. long, few, fertile. Empty glumes i or 
2, ovate truncate mucronate, appressed, hairy. Flowering glumes 
I or 2, longer. Pale^e 2, not keeled, outer narrow bimucronate, tip 
hairy, inner shorter, tip rounded. Lodicules 6 to 10 lanceolate to 
spathulate ciliate. Stamens free or connate, 6, 3 longer, blunt, 
3 short, acute. Ovary linear, in a 2- to 4-cleft perigynium, Hab. 
Singajxjre, Bukit Mandai (Ridley). Johor, Bukit Muar (Feilding). 
Native name: Buluh Kasap. 
