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n o AiiNALS OF THE EÜTAL BOTANIC GAUDEN, CALCUTTA.
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imperfect ono with long produced racbilla; cniptij ghimes glabrous, striate,'ovate-mucrouate;
jloiocring ghinie similar but longer; palea similar but bi-mucronate, keeled above only
and furrowed. Lodiculcs 3, ovate-lanceolate or obovate, 3- to 5-veined, ciliato on the
edges. Stamens exserted; anthers short, greenish, rounded at the tip (Munro says
' apieulate,' but I do not find them so). Ovary oblong, long-beaked, the style included
in the beak; stigmas 3, short, exserted, pm-plo plumose. Cargopsis ovate, long-boaked
(•4- in. long, '2 in. broad, beak '5 in.}, beak much bent to one side, surrounded by
the persistent flowering gluuie and palea; -pei-icarp crustaceous ; seed rounded, embryo
distiuct. CHLOOTnAMNUS ciliLiANTHUs, Biise in PL. Jmyh. 387 ; Miq. Fl. Tnd. Bat. iii.
•ilf). JIELOCAKNA GiuciLls, Kurz, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 133. BAMBUSA, Wall_
Cat. 5032.
Malaya: collected at Batang, Malacca, by Mr. .Vaughan Stevens (No. 3947 of
Botanic Garden, Singapore) ; at Singapore by Wallich. Also in Java and Sumatra.
The Singapore specimens bear the name Bulu rappen. Kurz says it is Bulu akar.
1 have followed Kurz in identifying his Mclocanna gracilis -with Chhothamms chilianthus,
Biise, although Biise's description does not agree in all particulars. (See also note in
Bentb. and Hook. fil. Genera Plantarum, p. 12U.)
P l a t e No; 101. — Schisostachyxim chilianthum^ Kurz. 1, leaf and flower specimen;
2, young shoots showing culm-sbeaths—of natural size ; 3, leaf-sheath ; 4 & 5, spikelet;
C, flowering glume; 7, palea; 8, stamen; 9, lodicule ; 10, ovary with beak and stigmas;
11, caryopsis; 12, do. section; 13, seed—e n l a r g e d . (No. 4 from Kurz' drawing. No. 11
from Kurz' Java specimens, Nos. 12 & 13 from Kurz' Plate 2 in Ind. Forester i. 219;
rest from Stevens' specimens.)
3. SCHIZOSTACHYUJI BLUJIEI, Nees von Esenh. in Agrost. Bras. 535,
An arborescent bamboo. Culms up to 30 ft. high, hollow, fragile, glabrous. Culmsheaths
cyliudric, slightly attenuate to the truncate mouth with appressed white bristles,
striate, mouth hispid, ciliate; im-perfcct Hade leafy, erect; ligule narrow. Leaves 9
to 10 in. long, 1'2 to 1'8 in. broad, those of sterile branches up to IG in^ long
and 3'o in. broad, oblong-lanceolate; rounded or naiTowed at the base into a '3
to -i in. petiole; acuminate above in a subulate twisted point; rough on both
surfaces, pubescent below scabrous on the edges; main vein narrow, secondary
veins 5 to 6, intermediate 5 to 7 ; leaf-sheaths smooth, stiiatc, keeled, mouth truncate
and margins furnished with long, white, deciduous bristles ; lii/ule short-fimbriate.
Ivflorescence a terminal panicle bearing clustered spikes with long spreading, erect or
deflexed spikelets supported by chaffy bracts; racliis very thin, slender. Spikclets '6 to
•7 in. long, very narrow, cylindiical, with 1 fertile flower ; empty ghimcs 2, oblong, long
niucronate,' striate, glabrous, separated from each other and from the flower by ciliate
rachillffi; flowering glume similar, but much longer ; falca; 1 or 2, inner membranous,
not keeled, convolute. Lodicum none. Stamens exserted ; anthers green, elongate, blunt.
Ooary narrowly ellipsoid, glabrous, surmounted by a long beak, the style with 3
plumose stigmas. Caryopsis not seen. SchuUes Syst. Veg. vii. ii. 1355 ; Kunth Emm.
•135 ; Bupr. Bamh. 43 t. xvi, xvii. fig. 4 ; Steud. Syn. 332 ; Miq. Fl. 'Ind. Bat. iii.
424 ; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 136; Kurz in Ind. Forester i. 350.
MEIJOCAKMA TEKUISI'ICULATA, Kurz in Bot. Gard. Buit. and Cale.
INDIAN BAMBUSE2E; GAMBLE. ^^^
- Malaya: collected by H. N. Ridley at Selitar, Singapore, in 1S89.' Also in Java
up to 3,000 ft. (Kurz). , ' . .
Kurz says that this is common in Java along livulets in the hüls, and that it is
called Bamhoo irratvn. The specimens available are all so young that I have had to
take part of the dissections from Kuprecht's excellent drawings of the spikelets. The
Siugapore specimens have narrower leaves than those from Java, but they may bo
from upper branchlcts.
PLATE No. lQ%—Schizostachyum Blumei, Nees von Esenb. 1, leaf- and flowerbranch
; 2, part of young culm with culm-sheath—natural size; 3, pair of spikelets ;
4 and '5,' empty glumes; 6, flowering glume; 7, palea; 8, ovary and beak; 9,
.stameus. (No. 8 from lluprecht's drawing; the rest from Kurz' specimen.)
4. SciiizosTACHYUM LATiFOLiusi, n. sp. Gamble.
Cuhns and culm-sheaths not known. Leaves 9 to 12 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad,
oblong, acuminate, rounded at the base into a -3 in. long, broad, wrinkled petiole;
ending above in a subulate, scabrous point; smooth on both surfaces and somewhat
pale beneath, scabrous on the edges; main vein prominent below, secondary veins
iuconspicuous, 10 to 13 paii's, intermediate 5 to 6; leafsheaths striate, keeled, smooth,
ending in a broad callus and large falcate auricle bearing long bristles; ligule short,
long-ciliate. Inflorescence a tenninal spicate panicle, 6 to 12 in. long, bearing clusters
of spikelets mixed with ovate-lanceolate glabrous bracts; fertile spikelets in pairs
or clusters, shortly pedicelled. Spikelets 1 to 1-4 in. long, long-acuminate, bearing 1
fertile flower and 1 terminal very small imperfect one; empty glumes 2, oblong, long
mucronate, striate, separated by a short rachilla; flotoering glume much larger, ovatelanceolate,
long-mucronate, . convolute, often ciliate on the edges above; palea
lanceolate, bi-mucronate, faintly keeled or channelled on the back, much convolute.
Lodicules 3 to 4, the 3 ordinary ones lanceolate, 3—5-nervcd, '2 to -3 in. long,
very faintly ciliate, the fourth apparently a modified stamen, -4 in. long. Stamens
exserted; anthers long, narrow, blunt at the top, the connective produced into a
penicillate point. Ovary glabrous, narrowly-lanceolate, sm-mounted by a long glabrous
beak enclosing the style which bears 3 plumose stigmas. Caryopsis not known.
Malaya: collected by H. N. Ridley in 1891 at Kota Glanggi, Pahang (No. 5602).
I also identify with this his No. 5598 collected at Tanjong Autan, Pahang, and
his No. 5600 collected at Sungei Hudang, Malacca, in 1891, biit the flowering
glumes are rather more ciliato, and I only find one lodicule. This species is near
S. hngispiculatum, Kurz hid. Forester i. 351, but differs in the presence of lodicules
and in the penicillate instead of glabrous, bifid, anther points.
PLATE No. \^Z.—ScMzostachyum latifolium, Gamble. 1, leaf- and flower-branch—<?/
natural size ; 2, empty glume; 3, flowering glume ; 4, spikelet with flowering glume
removed; 5, palea ; 6, lodicules; 7, anther ; 8, ovary and beak with i
(from Bidley's No. 5602).
5. ScniZOSTACHYDM ACICULAEE, n. S
A small bamboo. Culms and culm-sheaths not known. Leaves 6 to 9 in. long, 1-5
to 2 in. broad, ovate-oblong, almost elliptic, cuspidate, rounded or attenuate at the
'fl