JO A55ALS OF THE EOIAL BOTiKIO GAEDES, OALCüTIA.
i r v / s^Htaty o , l - l a n c ™ , a t e , l o . t o . glataon, except the dlia, on the
spAelet; «»i'J ^ J , „™te-lanceotae, acute, glataous, manyedges,
many-Tcraed, conrolute, ; ^ J „ „ „ l o , f a i a t l y c i l k t e on the keels,
.eined; equal o. ^ t 'lo is s^n-mounted by a
bearing between the iji, ^„¿'„fc, y elliptic, -15 in. long,
navrow .mperiect ^ ^ ant,.,s glabrous, blunt. ovate, glahous,
f t e t a t e d t a v e " sh«t sf,ße ^-hich w y eariy divides into 3 long, thin,
o i g , ending in a s h e . cyhndric beah. i«™-
' ' ' " " T r T a ^ l e l ^ t i n Perat, found by L. W.ay, Jun., on the fiunong Inas n^ountain,
r S t ^ r o o n s d e l it to be closely allied to K Munro, and to
' r Atoi«; As he correctly remarks, in appearance it resembles ü « . » » »«
T ' tte strurture of the spikelet is different. It is dearly a remarkable specres,
Mnnro, but the f ™ ^ ^e found to belong to another genus than Bm,in>a
r i d g e s ^ t ^ ^ . . - ^ a . ^ - ^ —
. n g . They a l famished
. abont the most el g a n ^ o ts^to^^^^^ third or fourth from the ground. The
;; S t s u - tlL 1 r g e l e d cfnes t o r f t o outer case of their blowpipes and the small
L T f o r th nncr t ^ e This appears to grow only in two places m Perak.
t Stapf. Mower and leaf-branch-./
floir. n, lodicale; 1 , ov„y and s t i g m a s - » . . «.
(all fi-om Mr. Wray's specmiens).
SECTION VI.
19. B.U-B.SA V«j. vii. 2, 1343 (1830). '
I. Cuhm 30 to 60 ft. high or more, about 3 to 4 in. in diameter,
/ 2ssv n L : premine^^ branches many, pale, yellowish, abundant,y
' s £ t xec^wed spines in threes, the middle one longest, cavity small,
armed with short to 6 in long or more, 3 to 4 m. broad, striate, covered,
{ - ' ' • J — ^ V a t ; bnsfles; sligh.ly attenuate upwards to a bread
X r mouti'vrolet W n , and yellL-s.riped when young; ^Ms nearly as
ISDIAN BAMBCSEiEi GAMBLE. °
long as the sheath, triangular, cuspidate, convolute, striate, thickly covered with tawny
bristles on both sides, slightly rounded at base and dccm-rent on the sheath m a narrow
band ending in a rounded aur-icle, the band and am-icle lined wilh a row ot stiit long
bristles bent in the middle; liguU very narrow, dentate, long fimbriate. Leaves o-l,
too-ether at the ends of the branchlets, thin, lineai-laneeolate, 3 to 6 m. long, -3 to o
in° broad; abruptly rounded at the base into a very short, glabrous petiole; en^dmg
above in a twisted scabrous point; glabrous above, glabrous and glaucous beneath; seabrens
on the edges; main veins prominent beneath, secondary veins 5 to 7, mtermediate
to 9; W-sheath striate, covered with appressed hairs, keeled, endmg m a small,
reem-ved, eiliate eallus, and furnished at the mouth with a few, slender, deciduous bristles;
liciuh short, ti-uneate, fimbriate. Inflm-escmce a large branching terminal panicle, bearing
s4eate branchlets with heads containing many imperfect and few fertile sp.kelets;
raohis smooth, slender. Sfikdeh 1 to I'o in. long, compressed, n a n w , slender, bearmg
2-3 empty -lumes, 6 to 8 fertile and 1 to 3 terminal imperfect flowers; cmfbj glum,:,
ovate-acute, 3- to r-nerved, glabrous; ¡lowering ,jltme ovate, acuminate, 7-8-nerved;
paleu as long as, or longer than, flowering glume, broad, concave, 2-keeled eihate on the
keels blunt. Lodicuks 3, obovate, long-eiliate, many-nerved, and thickened at the base.
Stamem httle exserted; anthers blunt, obtuse. Omnj ovate, rounded, glabrous, ending in
a short sfafe, surmomited by 3 plumose stigmas, afterwards stalked. Cargopsv, obovate,
shinino- above, tipped with the bases of the 3 stigmas. Kunth Enum. 431; Xunro ,n Tram.
Linn Soc. xxvi. 101 ; Kur. in Ini. Forester i. 340. B. SPlNOSi, Bl. in lit!, ai. Sees mn
Esenl. in Bot. Zdt. 1825, p. 580. Isohubochloa shnosa, Biise in Miq. PI. Jmgh, 889.
SCHIZOSTACHYDM DuKiE. Rupv. Baml>. 46.
Pahang; collected by H. E. Eidley. Also in Java, Sumatra, Borneo and elsewhere
in the Moluccas. , ^ j-ji.
This specics is easily distinguished from B. urundiuaeea by the long spikelcts, diflerent
culm-sheaths and fimbriate ligules. The culm-sheaths have the same coiiaeeous textnre
and dull colour as those of B. aruudinaeea, but the long-fringed anncles and hgules and
bristly back distinguish them, llunro doubts if it is not the sanae as
P o i r . f b u t on readhig the description of the latter. I am of opinion that^ it differs, so
that I do net quote that species as a synonym. Blume and Kur. give the Malay
names of i«>«i» durie and M^er tjutjuk. The Pahang locality bnngs it within the
region to which this work relates.
P l a t e Ko 4 7 - t o i « » Sfim»««, Sch. 1, leaf-branch; 2 & 3, flowering branches—
.fnaiural si.e ; i, c u l m - s h e a t h - « ^ « . . ; 5 & 6, spilelets ; 7. flower ; 8, flowering g W ;
9, palea; 10, lodicule; 11, anther; 12 & 13, ovary, stylo and stigmas-oH « f a r y r f ( f r om
Kurz' Java specimens).
20. Baubusa aedsdmacea, WiUJ. Sp. PI. ii. 245 (1799).
A tall "-raceful thorny bamboo with eui-ving branches from a thick central rootstock
(7»i«°bright green, shining, variable in length, but in large specimens reaching 80
, 100 ft hi-h and 6 to 7 in. in diameter, branched from the base, the lower joints
livin.. out long horizontal shoots armed at the nodes with 2 to 3 recurved spines and with
few leaves; nodes prominent, lower ones rooting; intemodes variable in length, up o S
oiten faintly angular, and in smaller culms flattened on one side, walls thick
1 to 3 In., cavity small. . coriaceous, orange-yellow when young, often striped
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