404 cLXxiii. GRAMiKE^. (BamhusecB, Gamble.) iDendrocalamus. 



depressed, stigma usually simple. Grain small, pericarp coriaceous or 

 crustaceous. — Species 16 known. 



Sect. I. Spikelets hard, spinescent, crowded in spicate heads.— Leaves 

 ngually narrow. 



1. D. Btrictus, Nees in Linnsea, ix. (1834) 476; leaves up to 10 bj 

 11 in., shortly suddenly petioled softly hairy beneath, spikelets f-i m- 

 hairy spinescent fertile and smaller sterile mixed, empty gls. 2 or mor 

 ovate spinescent many-nerved, flg. gls. ovate tip spinescent and pubescen , 



Mia, Fl, Ind. BatAu, 421; Munro in Trans. Linn 



. cccxxv., Forest. Man 

 Flor. Burma, ii. 558, 



7V^. 



Gamhle Bavib 



Bambusa stricta, Roxb. FL Ind. ii, 193 ; Kunth in Journ. Phys.xiv. (W^ 

 148; Envm. PL i. 431; Buprecht Bamb, 56, t. 12, f. 56; Steud. byn. Uram. 

 330; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 299. B. verticillata, RottL ex ^unro^^ 

 B. pubescens, Lodd, ex LindL in Penny Cyclop, iii. (1835) 357. !>• ^a* 

 Ham. ex WalL Gat. n. 5038 A.— Bambusa, WaU. Cat. n. 5038. 



Dry bills of N. India, from Garwhal to Nepal and southward from the PaNJAB 

 to Bkhar, the CoNcAN, Central and S. India, Burma, and Great Oocos i^ 



(Not in Ceylon.)— DiSTRiB. Java. ,., . ,_ „ontie 



Stems 20-50 ft. by 1-3 in. diam., hollow in mrnst climate?, solid m ^J^ J^- "" 

 glaucous green, old yellowish, nodes swollen, lower often rooting, internodes ^^^^^ 

 upper branches decurved. Stem^sheaths variable, lower 3-12 in., glabrons or 



ID.. 



trigose 



the rounded petioled base to the twisted tip, midrib prominent, nerves "^^i^ 

 with interposed pellucid glands; sheath striate hairy, callus P''^"^^".^. large, 

 short ciliate with flexuous deciduous hairs ; ligule narrow, serrate, f/*^!^. nodes 

 heads dense, 1-1^ in., much smaller in S. Indian forms ; rabbis smooth, m ^^ 

 ■"^ " * '^ " ' <s usually hairy. Ovary stipitate, turbinate, style long. 



Grain broadly ovoid, shining, beaked, hairy above. fp*er,fl' 



a. Gamble I.e. 80, t. 69, fig. A,; spikelets smaller, tis. 



-jT --" J J. Ovary 



simple feathery. 



Var. Prainiana^ 

 gls. nearly glabrous. Great Cocos Isld., Prain. 



2. D. sericeus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) ^^;^^ge, 

 racters of D. strictus, but spikelets silkily hairy, anther-tips 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 81, t. 70. 



Bkhae, summit of Parus-nath, alt. 4000 ft., I. D. H., &c. retained by 



(I should regard this as a variety of D. strictus had it not been r ^^^^^ 



Munro & Gamble. The latter describes the empty gls. as obtuse, but tney 



in the plate referred to.— J. D. H.) 



3. D. membranaceus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (^ -[^giets 

 stems scurfy when young, leaves 5-10 by ^-f in. hispid iibove, sp^ ^^ 

 i in., glossy nearly glabrous, empty gls. 2" ovate obtuse or ^^^^'f'i.nlate. 

 2-3 ovate mncrnno+o ^i«v.w^,-.« ^.«^«;.,« ^ft^r^ /^I'lJ^f.P anthers ap 



.xei 



Closely resembles glabrous forma of Z). strictus, but stem-sheatns 

 hairy auricles, leaves thinner, base less rounded, grain more elongate, anu ^ 



