J)endrocaIamu8.'] clxxiti. gramine^. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 409 



^nceolate shortly inucronate pubescent many-nerved, palea larger than 

 "e ng. gi., keels long-ciliate with white hairs, anthers obtusely apiculate. 



JPPKE Btjema J Fort Stedman, Abdul HuK 

 ilie softly white-hairy spikelets are diagnostic. 



139. MEZiOCAZiABXVS, Benth. 



aurfclT ^®?^^^^a°*5eiit from a stout rootstock. Stem-sheaihs hard, cylindric, 

 Mh If * ^^'^^ large, petioled, transverse nervules 0, Panicle large, 

 \)evn AiU^ heads, very small, rachilla continuous and produced 



2,bis fi^PP®^^-'-' e^Pt^y gls. 2, broad, obtuse, many-nerved; flg. gls. 

 Lodi ^;"^o , * ^^6 only fertile ; palea very broad, cymbiform, membranous. 

 fh^nr 1 I ^^^®' ciliate. Stamens 6, filaments short, free, anthers obtuse. 



de^r? ^i^*^/'^^^' style short, stigmas 2-3 plumose. Grain very large, 

 pressea-globose, pericarp tough ; seed large, fleshy. 



Ga^l *^^°^Pactiflorus, Benth, in Journ. Linn, Soc. xix. (1881) 134; 

 Fi.J% ^^' ^^^^' I^^' 94, t. 84. Pseudostachyum compactiflorum, 

 '- ^^r. Fl. Burm. ii. 567 ; Ind. Forester, i. t. IL fig. 13. 



Mines^S^t^^^^'^^ ^^^ Burma \ from Silhet to Arracan, Martaban, and the Euby 



Dodes^t t "^^ ^* ^^ '^"^ ^"* diam., rough, spreading and arching over tall trees, 

 "mooth n f • ' internodes grey green, 14-24 in. Stem-sheaths about 6 by 3 in., 

 <iark refl *;^'gose, mouth dilated ; blade long-acuminate, dilating into a narrow 

 Me na ^ <^rescentic auricle fringed with stiff bristles, hispid towards the base; 



® nan-ow 



Penicillit f^' ^^^Jre. Leaves 6-10 by 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, tip subulate 

 *^eath str f ^^^^' ^^^® rounded, petiole hairy, midrib narrow, nerves 8-12 pairs ; 

 iiarrow p ; /^^°& strigose, mouth truncate, auricle lunate re flexed ; '^-"'-^ 

 ^^^Wst^nK interrupted, often leafy, heads M in. diam., subglobose, 



^cate 2 1 r*^' laterally flattened. Spikelets ^ in., or rather more, obtuse or 

 ia. diam' ^^^^^\ ' empty gls. ventricose: fl. gfs. similar, often ciliate. Grain 1-1^ 



•' seated in the persistent glumes. 



ligule 

 rachis 



140. PSEUDOSTACHVUm, Munro. 



latelv n"^^^*, ^^^^stock creeping. Stem-sheaths short. Leaves large, tessel- 

 tbe Lu c -P^*^*^^^ ^ith drooping spikes. S2^ikelefs small, solitary m 

 emptv 1*^ ^^rrow bracts, 1-fld., rachilla produced with imperfect gls. ; 

 similar ^^^ally solitary, broad, mucronate, about 7-nerved ; flg. gl. 

 ^^<imen\ R^^^^ ^^^°' convolute, 2-keeled. Lodicules 3-5, large, ciliate. 

 ^»id, sti \^^^'^^^'? apiculate. Orar2j liuear-oblong, glabrous, style long 

 ' gmas 2 hairy. Grain depressed-globose. 



*\Gm\^^^^^^^^ M^nro in Trans. Linn. 5'oc. xxvi. (1868) 142, t. 



S "^^^ £am6. BriL Ind. 96, t. 85. 

 ^^'^A^ln Himalaya, Assam, the Garrow Hills, Muxnipore & Burma, 



'"Oden?'*' ^^ ft- by 7-12 in. diam., arising singly from the r<x.tstock, often 

 S'^lcons i'n""*^^* ^'^'•''Jy swollen, internodes 7-12 in. by 1 m. d.am., nt first 

 ^»'cate\f? """^y tb»»- Stem.sheaths shorter than the internodes, tr.angular. 

 ■"■^^e Ion' ,^°'«. '^'tb b'-own hairs, auricle very short with a tuft of st.ff bnstles j 

 '^««th. lf"!f'^°'!°»te in young shoots, base as broad as the truncate top of the 

 • ^^'« short. Leavet 4r-U by 1-2 in., narrowed into the stout i-i in. 



