10 AXSALS OF THE EOYAL BOTiSIC GillDEX, CAICDITA.
14. B.UIBUSA KINGIANA, n. sp. GamUe.
A lai-o bamboo. Cd,«. 60 to 70 ft. long, up to 4 in. in diamotor. Oulm-Amil,. ijot
A l a i ooamu linoai-lancoolate ; imeqnally
" " T a ba» L o • a f t i thick, -2 to .3 in. long potiolo ; tip a — t o ,
l ^ o o p t t b o scab.on. nwginal . o i n . pale and .pa^oly bah-y
W a r ' a t C a r d , glabrons soabrous on the odges ; main voin tluck prommont,
« n ! STO L y voluB 10 to U pai,,, intonncdiato 5 to 7, pellucid GTAUU G ^ G the
t r S n c of t L « voinlcts beneath; smooth, somewhat stnatc, chat
0 t t e X e s ending in a broad shining calh« and a w y small roundod naked
Z J Ì I C " « t t - long-imbmto, ono side longer than the
T e r / a compound leafy pamclo, bearing spicate branchlots • on whrch aro
" ne s o n L h a t regularly-spaced clusters of few (> to 6) purple-trppod .
flo.uose, joints flattened on one side, •= to 1 rn. long,
, / 11 s!„iM,h -.T in Ion», -2 in. broad, purphsli, flattened, witn ^
6 ^ " I C o r r a n d ^ termmal i m ; o I c t flow; rachiUa aboa,
T in 1 i l v a t e , flattened; o.ato-acute, mucronate, ciliato at tho edges;
similar, but larger; paM oblong, acute or acuminato, long eflrat o^,
' Z l i s ! 2-nervei between. 3, two ovate blunt, one lanceolate, all lengfimbriatc
usually S-nerml. Sta,,.«, half exsorted ; authors n a n w , aprenkto wr h a
V or more penicillate hair-s. broadly ovoid, stalked, bauy surmounted by
1 LOL thick almost at once separating into 3 purple plumose . f t , » ».
i ^ i p ™ ' B u r m a : sent b y ' j . W. Ohver from Petsut, Katha district, under the name
has at flrst the appearance ef a but seenas to be a
true B » . L « . The ponieillately tufted anthers are characteristic i am glad to associato
with it the name of Dr, G. King, mrder whose auspices and wrth whose assistance
this work has been done.
PLAT. NO, Ì2.-Ba„.ì»a KLpam, Gamble. 1, loaf-branch; 2, flowering brandi
_ „ / »«.mi 3, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5, flowering glume ; 6, paloa ; 7,
l o l c i i l e s ; S, anther; 9, otary and stigmas; 10, leaf-shoath-»;«.';,«; tfrom J. W. Olivers
specimens).
S E C T I O N I I I.
1Ó BAMBUSA LKEATA, ilum-o in fmra. Lmn. So,, xxvi. 118.
thiddy growing, reod-liko, large-leaved shrub with, short eidms. Od,,« green
A tniaay g ^ diameter, much branclimg when yomig,
or green stnped wi h J , „ „ „ ¿ „ „ „ t ring, the
r i n ' t o l ; — O S long, 16 to 24 in., rough especMly bo,ow the
nods striped when young, about 6 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad, covered,
: - h t young with a p i L s o d golden brown hairs, especially at tho baso, afterwards near y
IXDI.iS BAMBtTSE-Si GAMBLE.
long and up to 3 in. broad ; those on older branches and flowering branches 10 to 13
in long by 1 to 1-.3 in. broad ; stiff, brittle, dull green above, pale beneath, ovatelanceolate
or lineai-lanceolato ; unequally rounded at the base into a Tory short {-1 to
•2 in ) broad petiole; above ending in a long, twisted, scabrous point ; glabrous above and
beno¡th except for scabrous points on the marginal veins above ; scabrous-sen-ate on tho
edges; secondary veins 8 to 12, intermediate 5 to 7, many pellucid glands wliioli
t-ive the appearance of transverse veinlets beneath ; Imf-slwatla striate, hairy, keeled,
truncate at top with no or only a very small callus, onding in long, falcate,
deciduous auricles which are fringed with long stifl bristles ; ligule short, very long and
stiflly fimbriate. l„praemce a terminal spike or panicle at the ends of leafy brancHets,
bearing clusters of sessile spikelets supported by a trúncate bract ; rachis rounded or
flattened on one side, striate. SpikeMs ovatc-acute, -i to -ó in. long, about -2 in. broad,
much oompressed, and often spirally tivistod, bearing usually 1 to 2 empty glumes,
then about 10 fertile flowers, then a terminal imperfect flower; rachiflas short, glabrous ;
empty glima ovate, locg-mucronate, 5- to 7-yeined; ghmie similar but longer,
and white-ciliate on the margins; palm a little shorter than the flowering glnmes,
nan-ow, 2-keeled, minutely ciliate on the keels, sometimes bifid at the apex, Lodicules
apparently none. SUmeus exserted ; anthers narrow, tho connectivo opioulato with a
peniciUate point ; fikmats often apparently monadelphous but separable. Ovar,/ oblong,
whitish, pubescent, gradually passing into an elongated slgle which is finally divided
into three pui-ple plumose ¡ti¡/mas. Cartjopak not known. BAMBUSA ROMPHIASA, Eun in,
Jmrn. As. Sse. Beny. xxxix. (1870), 86 ; Ini. Fmster i. 341. LELEBA LISEATA,
Rumph. Eerl. Ami. vi. fab. 1, p. 5. LELEBA KDMPIIIANA, Kurz in Cat. //orí. Bogor. (1866),
2 0 . BAJIBESA ASIAHUSS-MA, B. ATEA, B. PIOTA, B . PEAVA, L d l . ( a c c o r d i n g t o M u n r o a nd
Kurz.)
Throughout the Malay Archipelago and the Moluccas, extending northwards to tho
Andaman Islands, whore it was gathered at Kutland Island by Dr. Train in December
1890. Cultivated in the Botanie Gai-dens at Buitenzorg, Java; at Peradeniya, Ceylon,
and at Calcutta. It is found in marshy coast forests.
This is a very remarkable species, which Kurz thought would prove to belong to a
new genus when the caryopsis is found. It is characterized by its shrubby habit ; constant
"fiowering; many-fiowered, long-mucronato, »•omiis-like spilielets ; brittle leaves and
peculiar cuhmsheaths. Kiirz in h,i. Forester i. 341, enumerates 5 varieties bearing
the Malay names of Leleba dijakat^ pootee, ieta,,,, tootool, soorat. I think that the name
of B. lineata must take precedence of Kurz' name of B. Bmnphiana, much as it may be
rem-etted; for Kumphius called it Leleha láieata, and Munro published it us Bamlmsa
tiZata in the same year (1866) in which Kurz gave it the name of LeUla Mumphia„a.
I have examined many flowers and failed to find the lodicules, but in a picture by
Knrz in the Herbarium of the Koyal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, there are given what I
take to be intended tor small acute glabrous lodicules, though they may be the bases of
tho filaments which have themselves disappeared. Tho fruit also is not known and should
be searched for; for though constantly found in flower in the Botanic Gardens at Calcutta
and Peradeniya, it has not yet been known to produce seed.
PLATE NO. iZ.—Bamlmsa lineata, Munro. 1, leaf and flower branch ; 2, leaf-sheath ;
3 & 4 culm-sheaths, outside young and inside oldir—0/ natural size ; 5, spikelet ;
6, spikelet, from a Ceylon specimen; 7, empty glume ; 8, flowering glume ; 9, palea;