Jkndrocaiamus .] clxxiii. gramine^. (BambusecB, Gamble.) 405 



• Sect. II, Spikelets in large soft congested heads. Leaves usually 



tJ'J^I Slkklmensls, Gamble in Hook. le. PI t. 1770, Bamh Brit. 

 li-2 • V. ' ^^^"" sheaths felted with golden brown hairs, leaves 6-10 by 

 ] f T °^'^°g-'anceolate strigosely hirsute and rough beneath, mouth of 

 eai-sheaths fringed, spikelets i-§ in. in large globose red-brown heads 

 wceolate subobtuse glabrous, empty gls. 3-4 ovate keeled kee'° "''-*- 

 t^' J ni^ ovate mucronate glabrous margins ciliate, anthe 

 ^'"•</. Chron. (1890), i. 792, fig. 130, XL 279 (1892), ii. 675 cum Ic. 



WF J IPflV^W ^ ._ WW 



j^-^*«*v« HIMALAYA 



™* Peak, alt. 3500 ft. 

 Stem 50-60 ft. bv ^ 



Gaeeow Hills, on 



C'lrved h "* rough. Stem-sheaihs 12 by 15 in., top broad; blade lanceolate, re- 

 ^ J .'^y 0^ both surfaces, decurrent into two large falcate recurved auricles 

 Hick t ^^^ , ^'^S curved pale bristles ; ligule sharply serrate. Leaves variable, tip 

 sheiith i! ^^^^ rounded, smooth above, midrib prominent, nerves about 10 pairs; 



fimbri Tp' ^^^^"* ^^^^^ ciliate, auricles fringed with stiff bristles ; Jigule short, 



1^ in, diam.> rachis 

 wer fl. obtuse, keels 



fimbri f D -«»*ui3 Qujebii ciliate, auricies inugeu witii snu i 



iuil h ^^^"^^^^ ^arge, branches nodose, heads of spikelets 



iUJ P^berulou?, internodes about 2 in. JPalea of lo;... -. , 



«'gma r*"*^ ""^'"^^*^' ^^^^^ subglobose, hairy; style short, thick, and clavate 



airy. Grain depressed obovoid, apiculate, wrinkled below. 



sWK^r f'^^^^'^eri, Munro in Trails. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 151 ; stem- 

 Obion 1 with black or brown hairs, leaves 10-12 by 2 in, or more 



lets ah f*!^^^^*^ ^"^"^^ beneath, mouth of leaf-sheath not fringed, spike- 



obtuse fl ^ i°* ^° '^^^^ heads ovate acute puberulous, empty gls. 2 ovate 

 louff h'' ^ ^"^ ovate acute many-nerved uppermost mucronate, anthers 

 H t 7^^ P^^icillate. Brandts For. Flor. 670 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 

 •^^ '^. -Bambusa globifera, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868), 72. 



^'tLs^lb ?^-?^^\^*' ^^^^e'^son, &c. Assam, the Khasia, Jaintea. and Duphla 



lower some 



*M#Iflv ""!^j ^^"^^^ w"^*s about 1 in. thick; branches long, curving. Stem- 



base 



"ervess iT '.°*^e rouuded very shortly petioled, midrib very proinineat yellow, 

 ••"'"ino ah ^''""*' ^^s'^ellate by pellucid glauds (seeu wheu dry) ; sheath hairy below, 

 Klibrou, p' *!"'^"'=ate, sometimes sparingly hairy, callus large ; ligule couspicuous. 

 '^^> of' .n-i!'?^ * '^'■&®> internodes 2-3 in., dull grey-greeu, somewhat hirsute j 

 *^n>inaie h • ''^ i i". dium. ; fl. gls. wich transverse uervules. Ovary ovoid, 



' '^ai'-y, style twisttd, stigma plumose. 



(1868) ]VJ**"**ltonli, iVee* & Am. ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 

 •T^'keletl ' ^^m-sheaths glabrous, leaves broadly lanceolate cuspidate, 

 laually i v^ 3 in. loug uvoid depressed purple glabrous, empty glf. 

 ""therg ,i, , '■' rounded nerved, flg. gls. 2-i orbicular margms filiate, 

 •^^'J. R.\!f^ ® ^"'^^ «* loQg black hairy twisted point. Bramhs tor. tl. 

 Un^ -itabusa monn^^..„ Q^ig Notul.m, Ic Pi. Asiat. t. 2. B. maxima, 



5039. B. Falconeri. Mi 



^^J-CaSx^'"*'-^^* 5 fro'" Garwhal (cult. ?) to Sikkiu., Assam, the Kuasia 



Sr'' '^^^H«i-. 



*lute 



PuSpn^ ^ ^*^- ^J^ 4-7 in. diam., much branched above, young appressedly 

 "^cent, nodes with root-scaraj internodes 12-20 in., waUs i in. thick. 



