Bamlusa.] clxxiii, gramine^. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 389 



Upper Burma; Katha district, Oliver. 



Sfem* 50-60 ft., 4 in. diam., dull green, nearly solid, internodes 12 in. with a 

 nng of white hairs below the not much swollen nodes. Stem-sheaths green with 

 yellow margins, rather broader than long, top rounded, sides with appressed golden 

 hairs; blade broadly cordate, cuspidate, base dilated into large rouuded fringed 

 aancles; ligule short. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, base unequally narrowed or 

 w^aed, tip with a twisted scabrous point, pellucid glands many, nerves 5-8 

 ^; sheath reddish-brown, keeled, tip truncate with a small deciduous auricle and 

 *nduous cilia; ligule short, denticulate. Injl. a panicle of spiciform branches; 

 rachia wiry. Palea with overlapping margins and 4.-5 nerves between the keels ; 

 rHchilla short, thick. Lodicules 3, 5-6-nerved, ciliate. Omri/ stipitate. Grain 

 *ng, top hairy.— A large handsome species. 



§§ Keeh ofpalea ecUiate. 



6. S. polymorpha» Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. , , , 

 /^^8 small linear at first hairy on both surfaces, ligule very short, spike- 

 «t8 about ^ in. few together in many bracteate fascicles born on the 

 long spiciform branches of a large panicle, shining, each in the axil of a 

 ^ODg bract, empty gls. 1-3 ovate acuminate, flg. 2-3 ovate mucronate many- 



(1868) 98 



P^^^^; P*^lea rather longfir lanceolate, anthers obtuse or apiculate. 

 ■f^^ Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 653 ; Gamhle Bamh. Brit. Ltd. 36, t. 34. Be 



Ki 



Bambusa 



Herb. Kew 



Eastkbn Bengal, Pegu & Maetabax, Brandts, &c. 

 diam ^^^^^* tutted, sometimes deciJuou.* ; stems attaining 50-80 ft, by 3-6 in. 

 ^^'*^^^V^^ outward, young white-scurfy, nodes thickened; internodes 15-21 in. 



m.*/iea^A« 6-7 in. by 12-14 broad, thick, dorsally densely white-pubesccut, 

 enjat A ^P^'^^'^s and curved; blade renifonn, 3 in. long, plaited and long 

 tiieshea^ base rounded and diltitin? into a broad band lining the top of 



lea " ' 





hairy ' «"*>orl>icular. Anthers purple. Grain \ in., ovate, pkao-convex, top 



aJj„^*^^-s*ieath3 with a very long or narrow or imperfect blade, 

 ^-les U or minute; keels of palea ciliate. 



blaj: ?; pallida, Munro in Tram. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 97 ; coospitose, 

 glabrnn ^l^^i-steaths very long auricles small, leaves linear-lanceolate 

 center ! ^5u^' °^^«" white-hnsute beneath, spikelets 1-li m fertile and 

 «»HteL?. ^ spiciform branches of a large panicle, 1 or 2 lowest gls 

 H il^^^^, empty, then one male or gemmiparous followed by 3-8 flg. and 

 »«ute «El'''^'. ^^- gls- ovate acute mauy-nerved, palea ranch shorter 

 6an,6/! R ^'"-^'P l-2-8etose or naked, ovary narrowed into the hairy style, 

 xlii. a87?r^o^'''^- ^«'^- 37, t. 35. B. crit.ca, Kurz in Journ Asboc.Benr,. 

 U.559^^^^^ ''• 2^0- l^endrocalamns criticus, Kurz For. Flor. Bnt. Burm. 



Btsii^i* Himalaya, N. & E. Bexgal, the Khasia Hills, Ass.or, Uppkb 



. St««w ^u\^ r'^- ^-^000 ft. (cult, in the plains below). „,„:„,nf . 



<»SS'.*0-60ft. by 2-3 in. diam., olive g^-een; nodes not P~en 

 ^'81% i^^^^"•' *"118 thin. Stem-sheaths 7-12 by about 10 m. broad op 

 '^''gDlar a. "?^^' y°"°g ™ore rounded, glabrous or hairy ; blade up to 14 .n 

 '^'/"ar 'ot""';""'^' ^P^'rsely hairy, margins fvnd very small auncles bristly ; l^ule 

 '"°'^. Leaves i 8 by i-| i° tip subulate scabrid twisted, nerves 4^6; 



