1 2 8 ANKiLS OF THE liOYAL BOT.\>'IC GARDEN, CALCUirA, INDIAN' BAIIBUSEJE; GAMBLE.
at top, glabrous, somewhat nieinbranous. Lodicules 6 to 10, -3 t o -3 in. long-, usually
lanceolatc or spatliulate, bluntly acute, many-nerveil, ciliato above, sometimes forked.
Stamens free or monadelpbous, usually 6, sometimes one or tivo wanting, 3 longer blunt,
M shorter acute at the produced connective. Ovary linear, narrow, surmounted by a
long style and shortly plumose stigmi^ the -whole enclosed in an enlarged perigynium
which is 2- to 4-cleft at the tip. Canjopsis tiot known.
Malay Peninsula ; collected by H. N. Ridley (Xo. 4630) and J . Fcilding in 1892
at Bukit Mandai, Singappre.
T h e few stamens and the locality chiefly characterise this spccics which is the first
that apparently has been found in the Eastern Peninsula. The JIalay name is Bulu
Icamp.
PLATK NO. 114.— Ochlandra Ridleiji, Gamble. 1, leaf- and flower-branch—of natural
size ; 2, fertile spikclet with 2 to 3 sterile at base; 3, fertile spilcelet (flowering
glume removed); 4, flowering glumo ; 5, outer palea, 6, inner palea ; 7, flower Avith
palefc removed showing style, with stamens and lodicules; 8, lodicules oi various
s h a p e s ; 9, stamens; 10, perigynium and stigma ; 11, free terminal rachilla ; 12, leafsheath—
enlarged (from Ridley's specimens).
Species of which flowers are unknoion.
7. OcULiNDRA SETIGEKA, 11. sp. GamUe.
A smallj tufted, erect or straggling, reed-like bamboo. Culms about 20 ft. high,
•0 to -7 in. thick, very smootli, without .branches below, much branched above ; nodes
hardly swollen; internodes 10 to 12 in. long, whitish below the nodes, waUs
•1 to '2 in. thick. Cuhn-sheaths persistent, 6 t j 7 in. long, very thin, papery,
striate ; both longitudinally and transversely wrinkled near the top; sparsely covered
with stiir appressed bristles, gradually attenuate to a very narrow (1 in. broad)
a p e x ; impeifect hlada -7 to 1 in. long, subulare, hair-like, edges incurved, hairy
within ; ligule very narrow, erose. Leaves obloiig-lanceolatc, acuminate, 6 to 9 in.
long, '8 to i ' 2 in. b r o a d ; rounded at the base into a -1 to -2 in. long petiole;
the tip somewhat broadened, scabrous hairy, followed b y a twisted, scabrous, hair-like
p o i n t ; smooth above, minutely hairy benriath, scabrous on one edge; main vein
narrow, secondary veins 6 to 7 pairs, intermediate 6 to 7, pellucid glands m a n y ; ka/-
sheaths smooth, ending in short decurrent auricles fi-iuged with long, stiff, curved bristles,
one side shorter than the other ; U'jule very narrow. Inflorescence., &c., unknown.
Western slopes of the Nilgiri Hills, in ravines above Gudalur at about 3,000 ft.
This species somewhat resembles 0. Rheedii, also Anindinaria Frainii and Mannii,
in habit and appearance. The needle-hairlike imperfect blades to the papery sheaths
are characteristic. I have only once met with it, but Dr. 11. Trimen has sent sheaths
extremely like those of this species and a picture from the Royal Botanic Giirden,
Peradeniya, as those of 0. travancorica, which t h e y certainly do not belong to. Thii may
prove to belong to a new genus when the flowers are found, but 1 put it here at
])i'esent because it has every appearance of being an Ochlandra.
PLATE No. 1 1 5 .— Ochlandra sailgera, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch ; 2, culm and culmsheath
; 3, imperfect blade of sheath, inside ; 4, leaf-sheath—enlarged. (All from my
own specimens.)
A P P E N D I X
CONTAINING DESCBIPTIONS OF FOUE ADDITIONAL SPECIES.
ARUNDINAEIA PANTLINGI, n. sp. Gamble.
An erect shrub. Culms tall, smooth, at least -6 in. in diameter, slightly hairy below
the nodes which bear a softly hairy ring formed by the base of the fallen sheath,
internodes at least 7 to 8 iu. long, cavity large. Culm-sheaths rather t h i c k and tough
about 10 in. long, smooth, striate, long-ciliate on the edges, gradually tapering upwards
roundedly to a convex top about ' 6 in. broad ; imperfect blade erect, subulate, a to 4 in.
long, -3 to -3 in. broad, glabrous on botli sides, decurrent on the apes of the sheath
into rounded softly hairy auricles furnished with a f ew (6 to 10) long curved bristles ;
Ugiile about •! in. broad, prominent, faintly ciliate, dentate, pubescent on the back.
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, long acuminate, 5 to 7 in. long, '6 to '8 in. broad, narrowed at
the base into a -3 to '3 in. long petiole; tip ending in a long twisted scabrous
p o i n t ; smooth abdve, rather rough beneath, very scabrous on one m a r g i n ; main vein
pale, shining, narrow, secondary veins 4 to 5 pairs, intermediate 7 to 9 ; transverse
veinlets very many, raised, straight or slightly oblique, about 60 to 70 to the
i n c h ; leaf-sheaths striate, glabrous, long-ciliate on the edges, ending in a very hairy
r i n g furnished on either side with a few long twisted b r i s t l e s ; ligtue rather long
glabrous, pubescent on the back. Inflorescencs of short 4 to 6 in. long panicles,
terminal and axillary on leafless branches, supported by glabrous sheathing bracts like
small culm-sheaths, the spikelets on long wavy capillary glabrous pedicels, glandular at
the nodes and somewhat verticillately arranged. Spikelets 2 in. or more long, curved,
very nai-row, with 2 empty glumes and 6 to 10 flowers, the uppermost 2 to 4 usually
empty ; rachillae about '3 in. long, clavate, white-pubescent, ending in a tuft of white
hairs below the ilowers; empt// glumes 2, lower '2 in„ uiJ[}er '4 in. long, 3- to o-nerved,
ovate-acuminate, mucrouate, slightly ciliate; flowering glumes similar to upper empty glumo
but slightly longer, long mucronate, nerves 7, prominent, midrib scabrous; palea QVS
long or rather longer than flowering glume, 2 keeled, ciliate on the keels, 1 nei-ved
between them and l-nerved on either side, bifid at the apes and bi-mucrooate.
Lodicules 3, obovate or ovate acute, faintly nerved and ciliate. Stamens 3, filaments short;
anthers slightly exsert, linear, acute. Ovary glabrous, brown gradually produced into a
short often curved style, early divided into three long-plumose stigmas. Caryopsis oblong»
dark-biowu, grooved, surmounted by the persistent base of the style.
Hills of British Bhutan, on Reclii Lil, at 11,000 feet.
T l i i s interesting species was discovered by Mr. R. Pantling's collectors in September
1S95. The collectors had been sent to look for specimens of a bamboo whicli, iu au
i J , I I , - E c g No.28CgJ—350-16.lfi.94,
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