^«?»f««a.] cLxxiii. GBAMiKEJ:. (Bamhusea;, Gamble.) 387 



f^^h'!^.^'. -^^fl' generally a large leafless panicle bearing heads on spiciform 

 branches, or of leafy panicles, or panicled spikes. Sptlcelets 1- many-fld. ; 



lower gls. 1-4, empty or gemmiferous; fl. gls. ovate-lanceolate, uppermost 

 imperfect ; palea 2-keeled. Lodicules 2-3, m^i^ljranous, ciliate, rarely 0. 

 ^•?.'?.?^? 6. Oj^arj/ otlong or obovate, tip hairy; style long or short, 

 8Ugma8 2-3. Gra^w oblong or linear-oblong, furrowed on one side; peri- 



^ip.thin, adherent.— Species about 60, Eastern Asiatic, Malayan, and one 

 Australian.. . ^- . . . .,• ., 



I in eunmerating the nerves of the leaves the principal ones on each side of the 

 Dudnb alone are given. 



A. Species of which the flowers are known. 



.'.-."■- 



n .p,^*- 1- Arborescent (except B, nana and affinis). Stem not spinous. 

 ^^^meis cjlindric, except B, Balcooa. Lodicules 3. 



v * Spikelets in loose heads, . ■ 



lar ^'^^^'^^^^^tlis with a triangular reniform or cordate blade, auricles 



ge 



i" 1 



'} ^^^^^ ofpalea more or less ciliate or toothed. 



,-A^- *^Wa, Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 193 ; leaves linear-oblong or -lanceolate, 

 lit ^°- ^° interrupted clusters mixed with chaffy bracts usually 



^.^ Dracteolate 4r-6-fld., lowest 3-4 gls. acute many-nerved usually gemmi- 



'?• gls. ^-1 in. ovate acute acuminate or mucronate, palea shorter 

 ,{ m "?•""»' anthers obtuse glabrous purple, ovary obovate-oblong. Mun'ro 



rans.Lmn. JSoc. xxvi. (1868) 91; Brand. For. Flor. 566; K~..~ 



I TFann-}^- ^^- ■' bramble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 30, t. 29. B. Macala, Ham. ex 



* De'nL , • °-^ ^026 ^A. B. trigyna, Boxb. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



."^aurocalamua Tnlria ttv,.-^/ TT°i o..;.,,^?. nnU„ft 71ft —"Rnmbusa. ITi 



^ymbifoi 



urz For. 



Cat. 



^u. 5026 A. 5027:5030 :g; a ^'^ . 



Groan^^' -^ssAM, the Northern Circars, and Burma, wild and cult. ^ 



1-2 fr^*^/?^®- sterns 20-70 ft., 2-4 in. diam. ; nodes not swollen; internodes 

 ^10 in ^^*^^'f '"^^ below the nodes, walls i-J in. thick. Stem^sheaths 6-9 by 



panicle nr''-^".y'"""''»^'e. from an imraeuse radical leafless panicle to a short leafy 



•tan. 



ps 



2. 



»Wm7?^**"*' '^»ll- Cat.n. 5031; stems solitary from a creeping 

 loDR Ir^^^^ linear-lanceolate tessellite with pellucid glands, hgule 

 8«4iDa>!^® ^^''y- spikelets in bracteate fascicles many empty or 

 *»ate ZlT' fertile few 3-1 in., 2-3 lowest gls. neuter o-7 fertile all 

 '^ate flaH f ucronate many-nerved puberulous mthin, palea shorter 

 ?'«lighllv^^>'^^« overlapping long ciliate, anther-tips long apiculate 

 S^) 92^ Pe'iicillate, ovary subovoid Munro in Tram. Linn. -Soc xxvi. 

 ?• «rinita' ^r""'^- ^«'*- Flor. 567 ; Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 32, t. 60. 

 *5 it. part' ^f«»»*. ex Munro I. c. 157. Bambusa Falconen, Munro I. c. 

 '^ ^--Bambusa, H^«/A Ca#, n.5030 A.- 



c c 2 



