Dendrocalamus.] CLXxni. qramink^. (BambusecB, Gamble.) 407 



9. »- calostachyus, .Pur;^ For, Fl Burma, ii. 562; stem-sheaths 

 jrnDcate tawnj-j^tri^ose, leaver 9-12 by 1-2^ in. broadly lanceolate softly 

 ?Is 9 rr**'' spikelets about i in. ovate acute faintly pubescent, empty 

 ftnfk °^^^*^'y «vate acute many-nerved, flg. gls. '1-6 rather longer, 

 aoinerg yellow mucro smooth. GamJZe Bamh. Brit Ind. 89, t. 77. 

 oambusa calostachya, JSTwrs w Journ. Beng. As. Soc. xlii. (1873) 249. 



Uppee Burma; Bbamo and Kachin Hills up to 3500 ft., J. Anderson, 

 trnnca^^ V^^ appressed silvery hairs; nodes thickened, annulate. Stem-sheaths 

 M3 ^^p*'e narrow, subentire. Leaves shortly petloled, base rounded, nerves 



Paniir^n^ ^^^^^^^^^^^■^^^^^*^^'™^"^^'^^""^''^^> callus small; ligule broad, truncate. 

 snhn. h , ^°& whip-like curved spikes ; racliis flattened on alternate sides, glaacous, 

 ^puoenjioits;, heads of 2-5 spikelets, bracts few small. SpikeleU subcompressed ; 

 n^' Y' ^^^^^ ^conspicuous transverse nervules ; palea 5-nerved and transversely 



ovoid tT^^^*"'*^ ^'^^ *^^^^^^® ^^^^^ ^^^ 1-nerved outside the keels. Ovavi^ broadly 

 » subhemisplieric and long style hairy, stigma simple fringed. 



W' ?• ^^^iflorus, Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvl (1868) 152, t 6; 

 Win vT ^^ ^'^ ^^' ^^^^^^y lanceolate long-acuminate, spikelets ^-| in. 

 Rh <i> I ^^u *^^^t^-oblong compressed, gls. many-nerved pubescent, empty 

 to a kT ^^^^ ^^^^^ ciliate, ti. gls. 6-8 broadly ovate suddenly narrowed 

 i'Ubobtuse point, margins dark colrd. ciliate, anthers pale tipped by a 



fJ; •'^'^r ^^' G^^'^*^^ Bainb. Brit Ind. 131, t. 117. Bambusa latiflora, 

 yn Journ. As, Soc, Beng. xlii. (1873) II. 250. B. verticillata, Benih. 

 ^^^Songk, [ex Munro). 



Jr^ ^^KMA; Southern Shan States, King's CoH^Jctor.— DistEiB. China, 



^nn 



bi !^:?.J'"-^? B«>"boo. 



^lii^eZe^*" short, ohtuse. 



persiLf; **>»»erl8pathu8, ^«rz For. Fl. Burma, ii. 561 ; stem-sheaths 

 Hnear ll ^^''^''y ^'■^''i^ose with patches of brown hair, leaves oblong; to 

 letsM • • '^^'^ narrowed to the base rough almost white beneath, spike- 

 »btnl?fl • '? «™all heads obtuse nearly glabrous, empty gls. 2-3 obovate 

 short H^" ^^^- 2-2 obovate cucullate margins ciliate many-nerved, anthers 

 lon4nn^u°'°?''"^t^ black. Gamble Bamh Brit. Ind. 89. t. 78. Bambusa 

 =^Patha, Kurz in Beng. As. Soc. Journ. xlii. (1873) II. 249. 



ira^rf?"; ^'^"«. CillTTAGONG, Lhter, &c. Abeacan, SchUch. BUBMA, 



■"'"ate n.-,, 'r''/-^ ''"''•y ; hgule broKd, serrate and ofu-n fimbriate. i..ai-es acu- 

 ?»r^o«- p'''\tl'iek jellow: nerves 8^10 pairs; sheath Muooth, glabrous ; l.gule 

 Si^. « ith?"'i' ''"■^'^' somet.n.es leafy, of interruptedly spicate clusters ^-^ m. 

 Hy ivot'^ r^'^^'*^'^ bracts at the base. Spikdets few or many-f|d. Omry 

 beaked "'' «"bacute ; style rather short, stigiua short. Grain ovoid, yellow, 



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