6 8 ANNALS O F T H E K O I A L B O T A N I C G A R P E N , CALCUTTA.
narrow callus aud produced beyond the base of the petiole to meet tlie ligule; ligule
broad, cleft. Inflorescence a teraiinal panicle of spieate brancblets, bearing distant heads
•with a few very large flattened spikelets; heads 1 to 3 in. apart with 1 to 4 spikclets
and very small bracts, racliis smooth, stiiate. Spikelets 1-2 in. long, -3 to -4 in. broad,
compressed; empty glumes 2 to 3, lower with a separate imperfect blade, ovate-lanceolatc,
mucronate, many-veined, glabrous; floive/s about 7 to 9 with 1 or 2 terminal nnperfect
ones; flowering glume ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, shghtly ciliatc on the edges and
h a i r y witliin; palea shorter than floweiing glume, 2-keeled, 7-nerved, ciliate on the keels,
blunt. Lodicules small, obovate, 3—5-nerved, fimbriately ciliate. Stamens esserted, tube
thickened at first, afterwards very fragile, membranous; anihcis narrow, penicillato
apiculate. Ovary narrowly ovoid, pubescent, narrowed into a slender style wliich is
divided above into 3 plumose stigmas.
Malaya: collectsd by Jlr. Al-wis, in Malacca, in 1886 for the Singapore Botanic
Garden.
This has more the appearance of Bcimbusa than of Giganfochloa, but the monadelphous
stamens are conclusive. It comes very near to G. heterostachya, but the spikelets ai-e
larger and compressed. It is said to be used for basket-making and to be called Bulu
tildn miniak. It is at once recognised by the very largo flattened spikelets.
PLATE NO. b^.—Giganiochloa latispiculata, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, flowering branch
of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5, flowering glume ; 6, palea; 7, lodicule;
8, staminal tube ai\d anthers; 9, antliers; 10, ovary with style aud stigmas; 11, leaf
sheath—crt/ar^cf?. (All from the Malacca specimen.)
6 . O x y t e n a n t h e r a , Mumv.
Ai-borescent or scandent bamboos, usually of medium or small size, unai-med, often
gregarious. Culms from a thick rhizome, usually creeping underground and stoloniferous;
atbn-sheaihs various, usually rather narrow, the imperfect blade also narrow. .Leaves
variable, but generally small, shortly petiolate, as in Bamlusa. Inflorescence a large panicle
•with spieate heads of few or many spikelets. Spikelets narrow, elongate, conical, bearing
1 2 or 3 flowers, the uppermost usually fertile. Empty glumes 1 to 3, flowering glumes
oTOte, elongated, mucronate. Palea of lower flowers 2-kceled, of uppermost flower convolute,
only little or not at all keeled. Lodicules none. Stamens monadelphous, exserted,
tube thickened at fii-st, afterwards membranaceous, elongate; anthers narrow, acute or
apiculate. Ovary ovoid, style fine, stigmas 1 to 3, usually more or less plumose.
Caryopsis elongate, terminated by a beak foi-med by the pex-sistcnt style base, grooved,
embiyo conspicuous.
DISTRIB.—Nine species, eight herein described and one {0. ahyssinica, Munro) of
Tropical Africa.
Analysis of the species.
1. 0. nigrocilinta.
2. 0. allocikata.
3. 0. sinuata.
4. 0. parvifolia.
Heads usually iew-flowered (Buimese and Malay
Edges of glumes ciliate.
Cili» oi glumes black or purple -
„ „ -wliite, spikelets glabrous . . .
„ „ pale, spikelets pubeseeEt, mauy
Edges of glumes not cUiato
I N D I A N B A M B U S E / E ; G A M B L E.
Heads many-ilowered (South Indian species).
Spikelets 1 •flowered.
Style hoiiy 5-0. Thxoaitcm.
6. 0. monosiigma.
7. 0. StocUii.
8. 0. Bourdilkni.
1. OXYTENAXTHERA KIGROCILIATA, Mxmro in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxvi. 128.
An evergreen tufted bamboo. Ctilms 30 to 40 f t . high, 'ó to 2 in. in diameter, usually
dark green, sometimes marked with longitudinal yellow stripes; nodes prominent; iuternodes
scabrous, rough above. Ctilm-sheaths about C in. long, stiiate, ciliate at the edges, covered
on the back with appressed stiS brown hairs, slightly narrowed upwards, truncate at the toj);
imperfect bhde ovate-lanceolate, decurrent on the sheath, and furnished on either side with a
bright green, rounded, naked amide, haiiy within; ligule narrow, faintly toothed. Leaves
6 to 12 in. or more long, 1 to 2 in. broad, lanceolate; unequally rounded at the base or
attenuate into a "2 to '3 in. petiole; ending above in a subiilate twisted jwint; somewhat
rough above, pale and smooth and at first pubescent beneath, scabrous on one margin;
main vein proniinent, secondary veins 9 to 12, inconspicuous, transverse veinlets none,
but pellucid glands wliich appear beneath like transverse veinlets; leaf-sheaths stiff, hairy
at first, afterwards smooth, ciliate at the edges, produced at the mouth and furnished
•with small, naked, rounded auricles ; ligule narrow. Inflorescence a large compressed,
sometimes leafy, panicle of spieate verticils ; racliis pubescent especially above, striate,
1 to 3 in. between verticils; spikelets usually few in the verticils. Spikelets narrow,
cyHndric, 1 in. long by "1 to '2 in. in diameter, conspicuously black- or purple-fringed
at the edges of the glmnes, sometimes cmwed; bearing empty glumes 2 to 3, fertile
fiowers 2 to 3, and a terminal imperfect flower; empty glumes ovate-acute, mucronate,
ciliate on the edges, many-veined; flowering glume lanceolate, acuminate, long-mucronate,
ciliate on the upper margnis, many-veined; palea shorter than, or as long as, the
flowering glume, narrow, obtuse or acute or bimucronate, 2-keel6d, ciliate on the keels
and 2- to 3-veined between them, that of uppermost flower convex, glabrous. Stamens
exserted, tube at first thick, aftei-^'ards elongated, membranous ; anthers -3 to '4 in. long,
narrow, purple, ending in a long hirsute point. Ovary nan-owly ovoid, acuminate, pubescent,
style slfSidcr, stigmas 1—3, plumose, short. Caryopsis hnear-oblong, -6 in. long, -1 in. broad,
glabrous, truncate at the top and with a short penicillate beak, grooved on the back,
embryo conspicuous. Beddome Fl. Sylv. ccxxxiii. BAMBUSA NIGROCILIATA, Büse in Pi.
Jimgh. i. 389; 3íiguel Flora Ind. Bat., vol. I l l , 416; Walpers Ann. iv. 1045. BAMBUSA
BITUNG, JIassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 42. BAÍIBOSA GRACILIS, Wall. Cat. 5033. GXGANTOCHLOA
NIGK0C1LIATA, Kurs Ind. Forester i. 345. G. ANDAMANICA, Kttrz For. Fl. Burma ii. 556.
Oiissa, Chittagong, Burma, Andaman Islands, Malay Peninsula, extending to
Sumatra and Java. Said also to occur in Coorg and Ganara, but this rcquii-es
further investigation: the specimens -were collectcd by Hohenacker and by no one
else. Collected by Heifer in Tenassexim; also by Falconer in 1849; also by G. King
on Pagoda Hill, Moulmcin, in 1879; by Kurz in S. Andaman, and by A. L. Home
in the Andamana in Z875; by myself in Kasalong valley, Chittagong (not in flo-wer),
in 1880.