124 AKKALS OF THE EOYAL BOTANIC GAEDEN^ CALCUTTA.
U, Stamen; 15, ovavy—enlarffcd (Nos. 4 and 5 from a c b w i n g by W. D. Alwis kindly
lent by Dr. H. Trimeu; the rest from Thwaitcs' and Beddome's specimens.)
Vae. macuhta. A gregarious slonder bamboo. Ciiim$ densely tiiftcd from muchbranched,
scaly rhizomos; greyish-green, elegantly mottled Avith
irregnlar rings, bands and blotchcs of dark purplish claret colour;
rest like the type. TiiilfCSTACHTUM ? maculatuji, Trimen in Journal of
Botan'j, 18«5, 273.
Trimen says of this, " F o r m i n g jungle in several places in the districts of Amba-
"gamuwa, Ruanwello, and regions to the soutti--west of Adam's Peak." Fii'st collected by
J l r . C. J . Ferguson on Galbodde Tea Estate, owing to attention having been drawn to
articles ornamented with the mottled stems and exhibited in Colombo in 1883. The
specimens I have seen, as well as Trimen's description and drawings, convince me that
his suggestion to me, that his Tdimtackijim maculaitm is only a variety of Ochhndra
stndxila° ii probaljly correct. Trimen says that specimens planted in the Royal Garden
at Peradeniya " h a v e nearly lost the mottling of their stems, and they will not flower.''
3. OciiLANDRA Beddomei, u. sp. Gamble.
Culms and culm-slieaths not known. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 8 in. long, 1 to
1-5 in. broad; rounded unequally at the base into a -2 in. long petiole; long-acuminate
above with a twisted, scabrous, setaceous point; smooth above, except on tho veins
towards the edge, where scabrous; margins cartilaginous, revolute, one scabrous, smooth,
and somewhat glaucous below; main vein narrow, secondary veins about 8 pairs, intermediate
6 to 7, transverse veinlets none; leaf-slicaths striate, minutely pubescent, ciJiate
on the edges, ending in a nari'ow callus, the mouth bearing a few erect stifi pale bristles
near the petiole and much decurrent bristly-ciliate auricles at the sides; very narrow.
Xnflorescmce a short, terminal, spicate panicle at the apex of a leafy branchlet, the
spikelots feAv together in short-bracteate verticils; rachis short, faintly pubescent. Spikehts
1 to i-5 in. long, cylindric, conical, covered with scattered, stifi, bulbous-based, spreading,
brown hairs, 2- to 3- bracteate at base; emptij (jlumes 2, ovate, many-nerved, long-mucronate,
hirsute outer 7" in. long, inner longer; fiotvenng glume 1'3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate,
mucronate, glabrous, many-nerved; palea acute or blunt, very membranaceous, shorter than
flowering glume, 1 in. long. Lodicules 5, all narrowly elongate, all different, one or two
bipartite at the apex, -6 to -7 in. long and -05 to '1 in. broad, 3- to 7-ner\fcd, glabrous
or very faintly ciliate at the edges. Stamens many, about 32, exsertcd, filaments free;
narrow, straight, -5 to 'G in. long, bifid at apex and mucronate. Ofw.y glabrous,
sub-orbicular, the beak of the peiigynium produced in an angular style-sheath enclosing
t h e stijlc which is terminated by o to 6 plumose whitish stir/mas, which before
spreading out are close together in a narrow pencil. Caryopm not seen.
Wynaad in South India.
Veiy little is known of this pretty species collected by Colonel R. l i . Beddonio
in Wynaad. Ic is distinguished from 0. travancorica by tho free filaments and bifid
apes of the anthers, and by the peculiar decurrent bristly auricle of the hairy leafsheath.
INDIAN BAMBU3EJE ; GAMBLE.
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PLATE NO UO.-Ocklandra Bcddomci, Gamble. 1, 2, 3, 4, leaf- and flower-branchcsof
natural sùe-, 5, top of leaf-sheath; 6, spikelet; 7, empty glume; 8, ilowering glume ;
9, palea; 10, lodicules; 11, stamen; 12, ovary and style; 13, sUgm^^-enlarrjcd. (All
from Beddome's specimens.)
4. OcnLAXDRA TRAVANCOEICA, Slh. in Bth. and Rook fil. Gen. Plant, iii. 121-5.
An erect, shrubby or arborcscent, reed-Hke, gregarious bamboo. Cuhm 0 to 20 ft.
hi<'-h, grey-green, rough, 1 to 2 in. in diameter; nodes somewhat swollen and marked
wi°h' the base of' the °fiillcu sheaths; internodcs 1'5 to 3 ft., and longer (sometimes even
6 ft., fido Bourdillon), vails very thin, "1 in. Calm-sheaths 6 to 8 in. long, thin,
longitudinally wrinkled and striate, when young covered with many appressed golden
or black bulbous-based hairs, glabrous when old, truncately rounded above and furnished
with a fringe of erect, -3 in. long, stiff bristles; ciliate on the margins; imper/cct Made
narrow, subulate, 1-5 to 3 iu. long; ligule nai-row, entire. Leaves broadly oblonglauceolate,
C to 18 in. long by 2 to 4-5 in. broad; rounded often unequally at tho
base into a thick, broad, somewhat concave, -3 to '-i in. petiole; apex long setaceous
acuminate, often scabrous, twisted; both sides glabrous or slightly rough, edges scabrous,
especially on one side, margin cartilaginous; main vein thick below, afterwards narrow,
secondary veins 12 to 17 pairs, intermediate 6 to 8, no regular transverse vcinlots,
but frequent oblique pellucid glands wliieh show as transverse veinlets on the under
surface; leaf-sheaths striate, glabrous, keeled, ciliate on the edges, ending in a smooth,
shining callus, and short falcate auricles, the mouth furnished, with several, often 1 in.
long, stiff bristles; ligule short, truncate. Ivfloresccnce a sub-verticillate, spicate panicle
with a few large fertile spilcelets and a few much smaller sterile ones, in the axils of
ovate-lanceolate, smooth bracts which bear subulate, deciduous imperfect blades. Spikelets
ovate or oblong-ovate, 2 to 2-5 in. long, -5 in. broad, glabrous, striate, supported by 2
to 4 small sheathing bracts; empty glumes usually 3, lowest smallest, 1-2 in. long, thick,
concave, ovate, truncate at top and tipped with a subulate apex; the next similar- but
tiuuncr and longer; tho third again similar but 2 in. long and long acuminate, not
truncate; all three many-veined and faintly transversely veined; flowering glume similar to
the last empty glume; palea rather shorter and narrower, thinner in texture, acute,
not mucronate, faintly 2-keelcd. Lodicules 3, lanceolate, unequal, one 2-cleft, very
membranaceous, '5 to -6 iu. long, •! to -2 in. broad, 3- to 7-nerved. Stamens very many,
(up to 120), monadelphous, at first included, afterwards long exserted; filaments slender;
anthers about 1 in. long, narrow, long-hairy-apiculate. Ovarxj narrow, smooth,
surmounted by a tri- or quadrangular perigynium enclosing the style which at the top is
surmounted by 5 to 6 plumose stigmas, which are spii'ally twisted together. Caryopsis
very large, 2 in. long, -5 to -6 in. broad, brown, oval-oblong, wrinkled and surmounted
b y ' a conical, stiff, 2 in. long beak; pericarp fleshy, enclosing the oval-elongate seed, the
whole surrounded by the persistent glumes and palea. Beesha teavancorica, Beddome
Flora Si/lv. ccxxxiv tab. eccxxiv.
Mountains of Southern India in Tinnevelly and Travancore at 3,000 to 5,000 ft.
elevation; planted iu Madras and at Peradeniya iu Ceylon.
This is a magnificent and most interesting species, of which its discoverer, Colonel
R. n . Beddome, late Conservator of Forests in Madras, says: " i t covers many miles