margins ciiutc, mouth truncate, 



Teinostachyum .] CLXxiii. gramine^, (Bamhusece, Gamble.) 411 



stem- and leaf-sheaths not auricled pale strigose, leives 3-6 by i-1 in., 



panicle leafy, spikelets 1 in. clustered at the node.-i of simple stiff terminal 



»mes, empty gl. 1 ovate nmcronate 7-nerved ciliate, fl. gis. 2-3 longer 



^11-nerved and 1-2 terminal imperfect, lodicules lanceolate tip ciliate. 



mdome FL St/lvai. Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiv. ; Trim. Cat. Cevl. Fl. 110; 



^mbk Bamb. Brit, Ind. 100, t. 88. Bambusa attenuata, Thwaites Enum. 

 ■^'. ^eyl. 375. 



toLON; Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft., Thioaiies, &c. 

 bra h"*' ^2~25 tt. by ^-1 jn. diam., tutted, tips filiform, wiry, nodes with many 

 ranches. Leaves smooth and pale beneath, tip subulate twisted scabrous, midrib 

 ?.'"'°".*f 3-4 pairs; sheath sparingly strigose, 



cln t I' ' '^®^''^'"'^"* bristles ; ligule short. Panicle luufy, usually of sliort spikes 



erea at the nodes, clusters bracteate composed of several barren spikelets and a 



^w longer often curved feitile, rachis smooth swollen above. Lodicules 3-nerved. 



aments long, twisted. Ovary ovoid, acuminate, glabrous, style long, stigmas 3. 



""" laTowed at both ends, beaked, glabrous. 



an ^^' *"*l*>oa, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 101, t. 89; stem-sbeaths not 



/, ^^'^«^ave8 variable, spikelets ^-l in. in a panicle of spiciform branches 



trn f fl^-^ long truncate bracts- softly pubescent, empty gls. 2 small 



con I '^' ^' ^'^' 2 in- acuminate hairy 10-nerved, palea as long glabrous 



"nvoiute not keeled, rachilla jointed produced into a long point. 



^n^i^^^' ^^^^^' SitHET and the hills eastwd. to Chittagong and Upper 



littlp *"* ^^^^ ^^' ^y ^~^ i"- cliaui., tufted, sometimes scandent ; nodes dark green, 

 whit P?"""^"t ; internodes 16-40 in. , dark green with a few whitish hairs ; glossy, 

 hairrf '*^'' ^''® °°*^*^^- Stem-sheaths variable, 4-12 in., strigose witli white 



doJ; *f °' glabrescent beneath, midrib pale, nerves 6-10 pairs, tessellate by pellucid 



«aiat'er^"i k ^^'''^'^e, margins ciliate, mouth with stiff deciduous bristles, callus 



*■ ^'aoraus ; ligule long-flmbriate. Ovary glabrous ; style, long re Idisb. 



thick ?• up® ^^®'*' Gawi^e Bamb. Brit hid. 102, t. 90; stera-sheaths 

 1-3 i uf *^"P truncate with a narrow long-fringed band, leaves 6-18 by 

 hairc fl ^"^'o^g-lanceolate, panicle of long termioal whip-hke densely 

 conlf ^^'"."^ 'Pi'^es bearing distant heads of few sterile spikelets which 

 ifunrl t^ ^'^'"'^te mncrouate hairy empty gls. Bambusa Helten. 

 d '\^'^^'- Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 114. Pseudostachyum Helferi, 

 , "^ '^^^rn. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1872) ii. 253, For. Fl. Burm. u. o68. 



Wn. °' ''"""i' '"spid, d.curreutou a fringed b.nd on the top ot the sheath ; 

 4idaM "'''' ^"''S^^ *^ith stiff white hairs. Leaves very variable, uncqu.l.mied 

 pairVt ^f'"'"'»''te, S'^'brous and glaucesceut beneath, .nidr.b stout, nerves 7-15 

 eallu;r'fte by pellucid ghuuls ; sheath glabrous, auricle long-fnnged dec.duous, 

 "« smooth J ligui, narrow, fringed with fragile hairs.-Very near T. Or^fithn. 



142. CEPKAZiOSTACBYUM, Mujiro. 



Wi^.y bamboos. Stems slender, straight. Stem-skeatks auricled. 

 ** various, shortly petioled. Sj^ikelets 2, ia terminal globose heads, or 



