406 CLXXiii. GRAMiNB-a;. (Bamhusece^ Gamble.) [Dendrocalamui, 



Stem-sheaths glabrous or with patches of appressed hairs, tip truncate, auricles acute ; 

 blade lanceolate, acute, with a small glabrous triangular point on each side, often 

 12 in., glabrous, margin incurved, with black bristles at the base within; ligale 

 ^ in., smooth, entire. Leaves variable, small on side branches, up to 15 by 2 g in. 

 in new shoots, base rounded shortly petioled, tips scabrous twisted, margin nnelj 

 serrate, midrib very narrow, nerves 6-17 pairs with nervules of pellucid ^}^^^^'' 

 sheaihs glabrous nbove, below clothed with white appressed stiff hairs, subkefle 

 below the shining cnllus ; ligule brond. Panicle very large, branches scabrous anrt 

 white-pruinose, furrowed on one side ; internodes 1 in. or less, thick, fistular, scabn^ , 

 heads hemispheric, ^-1^ in. diam. ; spikelets usually all fertile, surrounded wicu 

 rounded scarious bracts. Ovart/ subglobose, hairy, style long, stigma 3-fid feathery. 

 Grain broadly ovoid, beaked, glabrous or hairy above. 



7. D. patellaris. GamUe Bamh, Brit. Ind. 86, t. 75 ; stem-sheaths 



long cylindric margins above with a broad membranous fimbriate wmg, 

 loQvac ft_ifi ViTT i_j. iT» lo•r,/»«r^^r.fr. Kn o« TioT-^r^-cxT cT^iVf-lfits deDrcssea-ovoia 



ical 



uubuse, gi8. ail oroicuiar cuspiaate many-nerveo. a.uu pait.". 



within, empty gls. 1-2 membranous, flg. 3-5, anthers purple tip con 

 hairy. Bambusa patellaris, Kurz in Serb, Oalcutt, 



SiKKiM Himalaya; below Tonglo, alt. 4000 ft., 4nf/erso», &c. Naga HilI'S. 

 Mann, . , ,. 



Stems 20-30 ft. by 1-1^ in. diam., dull green, striate, nodes with a ^^^iry oe ^' 

 internodes 12-18 in., walls thin. Stem-sheaths very persistent, ^"^"^^ ^" .^.^ top! 

 broad, sparsely strigose, glabrous within, narrowed in upper third to a trunca F» 

 margins winged for 1-2 in. ; limb 6 in., lanceolate; ligule tringed. ^^f^ J^^. 

 sistent, petioled, variable, soft, tip twisted soabrid, midrib stout, "*^^^®^^ y.:;,^d ; 

 sheath striate, keeled, truncate, or produced into a narrow callus, "^^^^^^^ i' tuiar! 

 ligule very large, fimbriate. Panicle very large, rochis of branches r^^^»» ^*.^^|^^ 

 heads distant, distichous, J-1 in. diam., bearing hard shining ^^^^'^^',.^., Qor 

 many, dark brown, rachilla produced with a terminal imperfect gl. Lodtcui 

 2, narrow, long-ciliate. Ovary ovoid, style hairy, stigmas 3. 



Sect. III. Spikelets few, in small heads, many sterile. 



150; 



* Spikelets long, ovate, acute, 



8. B. grigranteus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (l^^^J^^i^j^ig 

 stem-sheaths very large nearly glabrous, leaves ap to 20 by 4 ^^* j^yg^ 

 young hairy beneath, spikelets i in. ovoid acute spinescent puoe 

 empty gls. ovate mucronate striate, fl. gls. 3-6 thin i^^^^^^J Bamh- 

 nerved, anthers acuminate. Kurz Ind. Forester, i. 346; G^^^^^, ^9; 

 £ri«. I»i. 88, t. 76. Bambusa gigantea, WalL Gat. Bat. Gard. oa • 

 Voigt Hort. Suburb. Gale. 719. . ,, 



3 pi g(i where 



Tenasseeim, the Malay rENiNsuLA,and Pknang (cult, in Assam auu 



in Indin). ties ratbef 



Stems 80-100 ft. by 8-10 in. diam., branched above, nodes ^^a^^V, i^^e*""^ jj,^^ aS 



short, grey.green, young with waxy scurf, walls thin. Stem'SheaW .^^^^^ 



broad at tlie base, deciduous, thinly strigose with golden hairs, top ^®^^^^ g^^' above 



5-15 by 3J in., decurrent into glabrous stiff brown wavy auricles, narr jj^tely 



into a short point ; ligule 2-5 in., stiff, black, margin serrate. •^^'^^^^o-lS pa^^' 



acuminate, tips twisted, young hairy beneath, midrib strong, nerves i ^^^^^ op 



with pellucid cross bars. Panicle very large, brauchlets slender curve > .Qoed 



to 1 in. diam. i-1 in. apart. Spikelets sometimes all flowering, ^* .^ i/ ^""' 



with an imperfect gl. Ovary ovoid and long style hairy, stigma simp • 



b long, obtuse, hairy above* 



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