O^fidlosfach^wn.] CLXXiii. GBAMiNEiB. (Bamhusece, Gamble.) 413 



parallel, top concave with sub-acute triangular glabrous auricles ; blade 4-5 by J-J 

 in., subulate; ligule broad. Leaves glabrous, base cuneate or rounded, petiole 

 wrmkled, midrib pale prominent, nerves 8-18 pairs, pellucid dots distant ; sheath 

 striate, margins ciliate produced up to tlie broad ligule; callus broad, thick, eraargi- 

 nate, Spikelets glabrous, empty gls. ovate- lanceolate, glabrous, long-awned; flg. 

 gla. acuminate, awn shorter; palea obtuse, tip hairy, nerves reticulate; rachilla 

 shortly produced. Lodicules 3-nerved. Ovar^ ovoid, style long flattened, stigmas 

 * short plumose, Qrain broadly ovoid, stipitate, carved above, beaked, pericarp 

 Wtttaceous. 



4 C. Fuchsianum^ Gamhle Bavii. Brit Ind. 107, t. P4; stem- 

 sheaths thin top deeply concave with a bristly fringe in the sinus, leaves 8-14 

 Y --4 m., ovate-lanceoLite, head 2|- in. diam., simple globose or compouud 

 eiongate and lobed, spikelets |-1 in. glabrous sterile and fertile mixed with 

 a«^ned bracts, palea 2-fid anther tip apiculate or forked. 



Bhotan and the Duphla Hills, alt. 6-8000 ft., Fuchs,- Lister, Gammie, &c. 

 Arborescent semi-scandtnt ; stems small, soft, thin-wulled, pale, branches 



^-Iiorl'd. Ste 

 P raliel 



sious 



liase 



» u "p '""*^uL\i, miano sainmg, nerves v-iu pairs, tesseiiate uy pi^uuuiuuuua , 

 mth soft, inary^ins thickly loi»g-ciliate, auricle elongate thickly clothed with white 

 17 10 ^~^ *"• **^"» J '^'o'jlt^ modL'rate, ciliate. Empty gls. ovate, long-awned, glabrous, 



Duh " flg- gl- longer, awn shorter, 21-23-uerved and cross-nervuled ; piileii 

 HOMcent, 2ket?lea and 5-6-nerved ou eacli side; rachilla shortly prodace<l, 

 short^ fi 3-5-nerved, ciliate. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, style thick, stigmas 2 

 ' ^'■"*'' »s in C. latifolium, but tip more ronnded, pericarp crastaceous. 



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^pikelets in panicled or ajjtcate heads or fascicles. 



BtPm ?■ ^^'^'^oilen Mimro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1863) 1 tl ; 

 afL T^** very ahort 2-auricled stri^ose with black deciduous hairs 

 both « poUshed, leaves 6-1 -i by 1-2| in. liaear-ltinceolate roacrh on 

 iralJ '^^^^ 5'P'telets i-f in. diam. bracteate clusters forming filiform 

 de3"^v. ^P'^^^' k's. 3-4, empty gla. 0, lower 1-2 sterile, fertile solitary 

 T)nr!i ^ t'^^y ^'th a termiual sterile, palea long 2- fid. anthers obtuse 

 i"Ple. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 564 ; Gamhle Bamb. Brit. Ind. 108. t. 95. 



^JfOQghout Burma, Assam, The Naqa Hili-s and Cuota Nagporb. 



whilTk^^'- «^eciduoas. 6««m.» 30-40 ft. by 2-3 in. dia.n., tufted, erect, glaucous, 

 Sk'Z ll"^ tl'e scarcely thickened nodes; inteniodes 12-18 in., avails very thin 

 frinrt?, ^^ ^^'6-8 in. ; blade 2 in., densely hairy within, decn>|eut lu u ^vaved 

 i^afe, M • '''°= ^^^ top of the sheath and fringed auricles ; ligule very narrow. 

 Serve, 7 no"' ^'''^ ronnded or cune^ite, suhglancous beneath, n.idrjb consjacaoas 

 eiliaJ )• I'"'"' spxi-ingly tessellate ; sheath glabrous, mouth auncled callus sma 

 «bafiV *J'?"'" '^^'•y "arrow. Panicle large ; Leads U-2 i... apart, br..cts Mnall 

 ««rrowIf'!"f ^'^:y- Lodicuhs narrow, tip ciliate. Ovart/ smooth, base subglobo.e, 

 ^7Ji '"'° •^ trigonous style, stigmas 2-3 sto.it. Oram i m., obovate-oblong, 

 "^ on one side, beak as bfng as itself. 



^or^' ?/ **^escens, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1873) ii. m, 

 «Woth; ."r«'- ii- 564; stem-sheaths short, top triangular truncate 

 linear r '^"g^se with white or pale brown hairs, leaves 3-6 by i-J in. 

 W;' !?'^^^ ^itli narrow auricles, spikelets \ in. long Imear acuminate 

 solitar^^^^y.^S^"- 1-2 ovate-lanceolate mucroaate hairy 7-9-ner7ed, fl gl. 

 ^ similar, palea 2-mucroiiate, anthers obtuse or acute yellow. 



