408 OLXXiii. GBAMiNB-S!. (BamlusecB, Gamble.) [Dendrocalamus» 



hairy beneath, spitelets ^i in. depressed ovate pubenilons, empty gls. 

 1-2 broadly ovate mucronate, flg. gls. 2-4 similar few-nerved margins 

 ciliate hairy below the tip, anthers short apiculate or penicillate greeoish- 

 yellow. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind, 90, t. 79. Bambusa Brandisii, Munro 

 in Trans, Linn, Soc. xxvi. (1868) 209. 



Burma; Pega, Martaban Hills, and Euby-mines district, Kurz, &c. 



-Stems 60-100 ft. by 5-8 in. diam., tufted; nodes slightly swollen, internodes 

 ashy-grey, 12-15 in., walls thick. Stem-sheaths up to 2 ft. by 12-14 in., top 

 depressed; blade 6-18 in., linear-lanceolate, strigose within, decurrent in m^ 

 plaited auricles; ligule i-f in., lacerate. Leaves base narrowed, petiole ^'"^*^'f?' 

 midrib stout shining, nerves 10-12 with transverse pellucid glands; younp: sheatbs 

 pubescent, mouth with a few long cilia, callus large, glabrous. Panicle laT^» 

 branches whip-like, rachis densely pubescent flattened on one side, internoaes 

 1-li in. ; heads i-J in. diam., bracteate ; palea with 3-nerved side wings. Lodicm^ 

 1,2, or 0, 3.nerved, long-ciliate. Filaments short. Ocary ellipsoid, hairy, style 

 short, stigmas 2 plumose. Grain ovoid, mucronate, hairy above. — Perhaps not 

 different specifically from D,flagellifer. 



13. D. flaerellifer, Munro in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvi. (1868) 150,- very 

 near D. Brandisii^ but leaf-base more rounded, rachis of spikes more hairy, 

 heads with fewer spikelets. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 91, t. 80. Bambusa 

 flagellifera. Griff, mss. ? B. Bitung, Schult. Sysf. vii. II. 1354. 



Tknasshrim ; on Moolyet, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. SINGAPORE, Ridley. 

 A little known species, probably only D. Brandisiu 



14. D. longrifimbriatus, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 92, t. 81 ; leaves 



12-14 by 2-3 in. oblong acuminate, auricles of sheath long falcate sn^J 

 ciliate with curved bristles, spikelets very small glabrous, empty gi • 

 broadly ovate striate, flg. gls. 1-2 ovate acute keeled often mucronaie, 

 anthers short apiculate. 



Burma ; in the extreme south of the Mergui district {Herb. Calculi.)^ . 



Leaves very large, base rounded unequal, petiole ^ in. wrinkled, pale ^^i^ f^j^^ij 

 beneath, midrib hairy beneath, nerves 12-18 pairs, transverse nervules ^^ P^" 

 glands; sheath shining, callus narrow; ligule short, very hairy. PantcCe lafe ' 



branchlets 



bracteate 



meath sbmmg, callus narrow ; ligule short, very Hairy, j'w/*^^*'- - j 

 s solid, short ; rachis slender, flexuous, glabrous; beads (y^^^^. ^"i\^^^ 

 . Ovary ovoid, glabrous, style hairy, stigma pinmose.— An impe ^ ^^^ 



known species, best distinguished by the falcate long- fringed auricle 



lea V pa. • 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



15. D. Parishii, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) U9; pa^c^ 

 of globose interrupted dense head^ spikelets abont i in. ovoid s"^J| gd 

 nearly glabrous compressed, empty gls. 1-2 ovate acute many-ae^ 



ciiiate, flg. gls. 2-3 similar glabrous, upper mucronate ^^^^^^^'^^^ij natnb. 

 cihate, anther tip obtusely acute. Brandis For. FL 570; GamOie i> 

 Brit. Ind. 93, t. 82. 



The Panjab Himalaya, Parish. . differing 



Flowers nearest D. HooJkeri (of which it is possibly a planted specimen}, a' 

 in the glabrous gls. and obtusely acute anthers. 



16. D. Collettianus, Gamble Bamb. Brit. hid. 93, t. 83; heaj^g^ 



spikelets ^-1 in. diam. bracteate with 6-12 fertile and a few ^^e" .^ 

 achis pubescent, spikelets ^-Jin. soft white-pubescent, empty g»s.-i 

 acute many-nerved midrib thickened, flg. gls. 2-4 and an imperteci* y 



