388 CLxxiil. aiiAMiNE^.. (Bamhusece, Gamble.) [Bamhusa* 



Lower Himalaya; from the Jumna to Assam and Eastern Bengal, ascending 

 to 5000 ft. in Sikkim. 



Stems 20 40 ft. by l|-3 in. diara,, graceful, naked below, straight, nodes not 

 much raised often hairy, lower rooting; internodes 15-18 in., not shining, white- 

 ringed below the nodes, thick-walled. Stem-sheaths 6-9 in., top roundly truncate, 

 dorsally clothed with black hairs, base with a ring of soft deciduous hairs ; blade o^ 

 lower nodes and uppermost shoots 6-9 in., of middle nodes shorter, acute, black- 

 hairy within, margins recurved, base rounded decurrent on the top of the sheath with 

 large waved densely bristly auricles, bristles long curved. Leaves 6-12 by l-lj lO't 

 white beneath when dry, tip twisted scabrid, midrib and margins scabrid, nerves 

 7-10; sheath ending in a smooth callus and falcate auricle with long bristles. Infi. 

 a stiff panicle with spiciforra branches. Lodicules 3, long-fimbriate, — Difficult to 

 distinguish from B. Tulda without flowers, except by the rhizome. B. Falconery 

 Munro, w£is founded on flower of B, nutans and leaves o^ Dendrocalamm Hamiltonu 



3. B. teres, ^am. ex Wall. Gat. n. 5026 B; steins coespitose, leaves 

 large oblong-lanceolate tesseilate by pellucid glands, spikelets 1-2 in. in 

 bracteate heads neuter and fertile, 1-2 lowest gls. empty or gemmiparoas 

 ovate acute mucronate, flg. gb. 5-6 ovate-lanceolate from a broad base 

 acute many-nerved tip sometimes foliaceous, palea ovate acute scaberulous 

 5-6-nerved between the toothed keels, anthers narrow tips peniciuate. 

 Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvi. (1868) 95 ; Gamble Bamb, Bnt. Ind. 



33, t. 31. 



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Easteen Bengal; Gongachora, Hamilton. Assam, Jenkins. ' 



Stems 60 ft. by 3 in. diam., nodes ringed by the bases of fallen sheaths ; in^^f"^,^ 

 20 in., walls -^%~^ in. thick. Stem-sheaths 8-10 in. long and broad, hsraj^ 

 narrowed upwards, top rounded, nearly glabrous; blade 4-6 in., triangular, cusp- 

 date, base rounded and decurrent in broad wavy fringed auricles, appressed-liairy 

 beneath ; ligule narrow, white-hairy. Leaves 12-14 by IJ-IJ in., tip long-aeurmnaw 

 twisted scabrid, base unequally narrowed shortly pubescent beneath, nerv^ i^ » 

 pellucid glands many ; sheath ending in a broad shining callus; ligule short. J j^^ 

 a large compound panicle with spiciforra branches bearing fascicles of spikeiets 

 chaffy bracts. Lodicules sub-obovate, fimbriate, many-nerved. 



4. S. atdleyi, Gamble Bamb, Brit. Ind. 34, t. 32 ; leaves 12'U by 

 li-2 m. margins smooth, sheath exauricled, ligule deeply 2-lobea, si 

 lets 1-2 in. few in distant clusters 3-5-fld. many neuter, ^^^P^^/ * ]ea 

 ovate acuminate, fl. gls. ovate-lanceolate mucronate many-nervea; p 

 shorter oblong keels minutely ciliate near the 2-fid tip, anthers long nar 

 setosely apiculate. 



Singapore, at Bukit Timah, Rldlev. , recurvecl, 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, tip subulate scabrid with its marguis r ^^^^^ 

 scaberulous above, smooth beneath, nerves 10-12 pair, petiole broart ; ^^ ^^^ 

 appressed hairy, subcarinate, ending in a narrow callus, margins *^*^"^ l-^nclies 

 ligule which has long stiffy ciliate lobes. Injl, on long spiciforra ^^^^^ " grved 

 bearing very distant clusters of few spikelets. RacUlla short. ^^[^Vf Ia stem- 

 between the keels. Lodicules 3, many-nerved, long-fimbriate.— Habit an 



^ B-L ^X ^^ ^ L^ ^^ — _ 1^ ^^ _ 



sheaths unknown. 



5. B. burznaniea 



of 



bramble Hamb. Jtirit. Ina. ou, »"/'"' r older 

 young plants 10-12 by \~2 in. white-hairy on both 8"^^?^%^ less i^^ 

 smaller smooth above hairy beneath, ligule short, spikelets 1 ^"' x Qpcat* 

 spiciform branches of a panicle each in the axil of a long ^^^^^^ j palea 

 bract, empty gls. 2 mucronate, flg. gls. 5-6 ovate acute many-nerv » r- 

 elliptic-ovate keels ciliate, anthers narrow tips apiculate. 



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