390 CLXXiii. GRAMiNE.E. (Baiuhusea'y Gamble.) [Bamhusa 



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sheath prlabrons, ending in a smooth callus and a rounded erect fringed auricle; 

 ligule very short. Panicle very large, pale. Spilcelets pale, sometimes curved; 

 rachilla short, clavate ; palea 3-5-nerved between the keels. Lodicules 3. Siigffvas 3. 

 Very like B. Tulda, but distinguished by the stem-sheaths, smaller narrow leaves, 

 and ovary. 



8. B. affinis, Mmiro in Trans, Linn. Soc, xxvi. (1868) 93 ; shrubby, 

 blade of stem-sheaths small lanceolate, leaves lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate scabrid beneath tessellate by pellucid glands, sheath setose 

 keeled, ligule broad, spikelets about 1 in. in small distant whorls on termmal 

 leafy spikes or panicles 6-10-fld. coriaceous shining, flg. gls. acuminate 

 very- many-nerved folded at the base, palea much narrower, ovary sub- 

 obovoid. Kurz For. FL Brit Burnt, ii. 551 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit hut. jy. 

 t. 36. . 



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Forests of Martaban & Burma E. of the Sittang river, Kurz, Brandts. 



Stems 15-20 ft. by 1-lJ in. diam., pale green or striped with white, W'^^^ 

 pubescent; internodes 1-2 in., tubular, with black hairs below the slightly thickenea 

 nodes. Stem-sheaths 4-6 in. long and broad, green, later straw-colrd., glabrous 

 or with patches of appressed hairs, top rounded; blade 1-2 in., longer m yonng 

 shoots, usually recurved, appressed hairy within, base decurrent as a ^'^^J^ 

 terminal wing of the sheath ; ligule narroW. Leaves 6-10 by 1-lit petiole ratner 

 long, points twisted scabrid, nerves 8-10; sheath ending in a short callus, o^"^^' 

 lets in small whorls; rachilla short, top bearded ; palea 7-nerved between the kee , 

 4-nerved beyond them. Lodicules 3, many -nerved. Stigmas 3. 



9. B. khasiana, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 97; stem 

 solitary from a creeping rootstock, blade of atem-sheaths with ^^^^^ ' 

 flated wings above the contracted base, leaves lanceolate or oblong-lance 

 late and sheaths glabrous, spikelets sterile (short) and flg. (long) to'I^ V^'|g 

 distant heads on the spiciform branches of a long panicle I74 ^^^o!.3:fld 

 empty or gemmiparous ovate mncronate strongly nerved, flg- gl^- ^ " 

 11-13-nerved, tip hairy within, palea as long as the gl. or longer manj^^ 

 nerved, anthers obtuse, ovary narrowed into the style. Gamble n 

 Brit Ind. 39, t. 37. 



4000 



&c. 



green, young golden hairy ; internodes 5-15 in. with a whitish ring ^^^^'^\ 5^ 



prominent nodes and bluish ring above them ; walls tV-to '°' ^^^"?' heatb ^^ 

 by 4^5 in., tawnily hairy, straight top truncate ; blade as long as the S7_pjjj^ 

 longer, cuspidately acumiuate, auricles ; ligule narrow. Leaves 4-9 by | *g^„(i 

 pale, tip setaceous shaggy, nerves 6-8 obscure ; sheath ending in a broad ca ^^ 

 minute setose auricle; ligule elongate, truncate. Spilcelets cjlindnc, *^ , ^.j^^^. 

 flattened. Branches of panicle fistular. Lodicules short, broad, nm 



Stigmaa 3. 



9*. B. KANA, Roxh. FL Ind. ii. 190; dwarf, shrubby, blade of ^^^^^ 

 sheaths linear, leaves small linear-lanceolate, spikelets ^-1^ m- ^^^ ^ ^ flg. 

 or solitary on the branches of short diffuse panicles, gls. 6 <^^ '"^JiLn the 

 rarely the lowest empty ovate acute many-nerved, palea shorter tn ^^^^ 

 gl. keels minntely ciliate at or near the tip only, anthers o^^tuse 

 apiculate yellow, ovary obovoid. IVaU. Cat. n. 5056; Munro in irans. 

 Soc. xxvi. (1868) ^9 ; J^urz For. FL Burvta. ii. 551 ; Ind. Forester, i^ .^^ 

 Trim. Gat CeyL Ft 110; Gamble Bamb. Brit Ind.4.h t. 38. ^'^. yj, 



Sieh. & Zucc, fid. Munro. B. glauca, Lodd. Gat. ; Ltndl. in Penny ^V^ • 



