448 159. GRAMINER. 
and the South Indian and Malayan D. flagellifer, Munro, especi- 
ally the latter, from which it differs in the dull polished brown 
colour of the spikelets, which are also slightly larger, and in the 
broader lodieules. 
2. Dendrocalamus latiflorus, Munro, in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
xxvi. (1868) p. 152, t. vi; Hance, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xiii. 
(1873) p. 137 ; Gamble, in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. vii. p. 131, et 
in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 407 : A. Henry, in Trans. Asiat. 
Soc. Japan, xxiv. Suppl. (1896) p. 109. 
jambusa verticillata, Benth. FI. JHongk. p. 434, non Willd, 
Formosa (Maries! Oldham, 619), Takow (A. Henry, 1808, 
1955 !), Bankinsing (A. Henry, 1760!) ; HONGKONG (Harland, 
740 in herb. Mance, 1050 in part), Barracks (Urquhart!) 
Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Burma. 
? Pseudostachyum polymorphum, Munro, in Trans. Linn, Soe. 
xxvi. (1863) p. 142, t. 4; Gamble, in Ann. Bot. Gard. Cale. vii. 
p- 96, t. 85, et in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. p. 409. 
Huren: Nanto and mountains to northward (A, Henry, 
3857!) Herb. Kew. 
The specimen, which bears no flowers, may belong to this 
species. 
1. Schizostachyum chinense, Rendle, n. sp. 
Frutex 10-15-pedalis; internodia glabra teretia. Foliorum 
vagine glabre, ore in specimine non fimbriatæ: ligula brevis 
truncata, 3 lin. longa; lamina lanceolata, acuminata, ad S poll. 
longa, vix 13 lin. lata, glabra, margine minute scabridula, ven: 
secundariz utrinque cirea 7 cum nervulis transversis tenuissimis 
sparsis. Panicule terminales, aphy Le, tenues, 14-16 poll. longie, 
rhaehis tenuis; rami distantes ascendentes, basi eum bractea 
amplexieauli membranacea lanceolata acuminata vaginati, in- 
feriores ad 3} poll. iongi, sursum deminuentes ` ramuli (in ramis 
longioribus distantes) similiter vaginati, basi bracteati, bractea 
infima biearinata, carinis et apice pilosa; bractew superiores 
dorso rotundate spicule circumvolute; spiculæ ramulos ter- 
minantes, uniflore; glume steriles bine florenti similes sed 
breviores, gl. fertilis ovata, breviter mucronata, glabra, multinervis, 
