Samlma.] CLXxm. graminej:. {Bambusec^, Gamble.) 397 



haira, callus ciliate, ligule truncate toothed hairy outside. Gamble Bamh. 

 Bnt. Ind, 57. 



Tkjtasserim ; top of Daunat range, alt. 5000 ft., Brandia. 



i^am 6-7 by l-'i^ in., glabrous, base rounded, petiole ^W ^o-> ^osta vellowish, 

 IhfUMsU ^^^"' pellucid glands few^ sheath striate, keeled, glabrous.— Perhaps a 



UXDETERMI.VABLE SPECIES. 



B. ABISTATA, Lodd. €x Lindl. in Penny Cyclop^ iii. 357. 



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135. THVnSOSTACKYS, Gamble. 



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bkd 1 ^'^^'^^ erect bamboos. Stem-sheaths elongate, thin, persistent; 

 (j„-i , "^' "*"ow. Leaves small or moderate sized. PamVIe compound. 

 W I Pr«"iQentlj bracteate, loose, pile, 2-3-fld., tjpper gl. fertile, 

 S '^'^?^™entary on a produced rachilla ; empty gla. 1-2, striate ; flg. 

 enH 1^ of lower gl. 2-cleft, lobes caudiform, keels ciliate, of upper 

 Bate cyP°^**®' "o* keeled ; rachilla hairy. Lodkufes 0-3, long-acumi- 

 Ion ' ,. "'®"* 6, anthers mucronate. Ovar^ depressed-turbinate, style 

 shinirf T^ '^-3 feathery. Grain cyliudric, long-beaked, glabrous, top 

 H> side grooved ; pericarp crustaceous, adherent to the seed. 



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traJ:*' ,®l*verl, Gamble Bamh. Brit. 2nd. 58, t. 50; stem-sheaths 

 UiiftP 1 + ^ trancate not auricled blade, long subulate, leaves Ions hnear- 

 acnt« P^nic^e thyrsoid curved, spikelets |-1 in., empty gls. 2 ovate 

 DaW n^P."'eb' hairy many-nerved, nerves trabecnlate, flg. gls. similar, 

 «a J-o-nerved hairy between the keels. 



n^*^.^ ^PRMA, alt. 2000 ft., iu moist forests, Oliver; Slian Hills, Ahdul Huh 

 hriehTr"*^* '^'*"»* straight from a stout rootstock, 50-80 ft. by l-2i in. dmm., 



intern J""^?.' y"""& silkily-downy old dull green or yellowish, nodes thickened; 

 ."""■nodes 16-24 ;„ i. •'„ ., •'., . ^, ^ ...a.. •'„„_„:„*.,„». c>,r.rf^r than the 



d glands 



"Teenlar. ,»■'•'"> "use rouuuea, nairy Deneatu, ut-rvco v y..-^^, f- "... 



lodes .. ' , . ^f ^ ^^'«5''7. Reeled ; callus glabrous or hairy. Tht/rsus bracteate at the 

 folilLn! 'c^t,^"°"«. ''"ij-y. top swollen; bracts i-f iu., narrow, obtuse, soraetnnes 

 fiZaS!" ^^'^^^^fs long and short, rachilla hairy. Lodicules 2, lanceolate, cil.a e. 

 PedicelT.^ P"fple, anthers yellow, connective obtuse. Orartf depressed turbinate, 

 ^' y^'llow, stigmas 3. 



stem «?" 5^°^®»>»*»» Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 59, t. 51; deciduous, 

 narroti! A' '^''''^^ and truncate at top, auricles short triangular blade 

 Pe<lioell 1 . ^"^»^' leaves small narrow linear, panicle large, spikelets 

 S-Uertid 1 ^^'■''Je and sterile mixed, empty gl. solitary ovate acute 

 We and i"'* ^hite-pubescent, flg. gls. 3 larger uppermost alone fruiting 

 inT^^Jt r? Pab«8cent 14-16 nerved. Bambusa regia, Thorns, ex Munro 

 '^- L^nn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 116 {no>i Kurz). B. siamensis, Kurz mss. 



sSt' ^''"^ Maudalay to Tenasserim, Brandts, OJuer.-DisxBiB. Siaui. 



^P oulThy}""^' ^«^y graceful, 25-30 ft., H-3 iu. diam., branch.ug towards the 



^«^ ; nod?, '''^"^ after flowering often producing small-Ieaved tufts of wiry branch- 



^'«^.£''°^ prominent ; intefnodcs &-11 in., with a white ring below the nodes. 



'^<^ihs very persistent, 9-11 by 4J-8 in., thin, soft, white-pubescent; blade 



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