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414 CLXXiii. GBAMiNE-ffl. (BamhusecB^ Gamble.) [Cephalostachyum. 



Gamble Bamb. Brit Ind. 109, t. 96. Melocanna lutescens, Kurz in Eerh. 

 CalcutL 



Burma; Pegu ? (cult, in Calcutta and Madras gardens). 



Evergreen, subarborescent. Stems 10-20 ft. by 1-1^ in. diam., smooth, dull 

 green, at leugtli yellow, nodes not prominent ; internodes rather long. Stem'Sheatht 

 4r-5 by about 5 in., smooth or strigose with pale or brown hairs; blade 1-lJ ^n., 

 erect, base cordate decurrent as a waved fringe with pointed long auricles edged 

 with stiff curved bristles; ligale narrow. Leaves acuminate, glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy beneath, base contracted, midrib narrow, nerves 4-6 pairs ; sheath smooth, 

 glabrous, callus very narrow, auricles long narrow ; lio^ule narrow. Panicle or le^ 

 whorled slender branches with clusters of spikelets 2-2^ in. apart; palea with hairy 

 margins. Lodicules oblong, tip ciliate, 3-5-nerved. Ovary ovoid, acuminaw, 

 smooth; style trigonous, stigmas white-hairy, 



7. C. virgatum, Kurz For. Fl. Burma, ii. 565; panicle leafless 

 drooping, branchlets fascicled bearing lax distant heads of few nearly 

 glabrous fertile and sterile spikelets, rachis smooth flattened on one siae, 

 spikelets \ in. nearly glabrous narrow acute with 2 small sterile fls. at 

 the base, empty gl short ovate mucronate, flg. gl. convolute coriaceous 

 mucronate, palea 2-niucronate, anthers obtuse. Gamble Bamh, Bnt. Ina- 

 110, 132, t. 97. Melocanna vir^ata, Munro in Trans. Linyu Soc ixvi. 

 (1868) 133. 



Upper Buema ; on the Mogaung river, GriffitJi ; Bhamo district, Oliver. 



A medium-sized, slender, tufted Bamboo. Stems erect, dark green, younj,' ^J 

 scurfy, nodes not thickened ; internodes 18-24 by 4 in. diam., regular, wails tn . 

 Stem-sheaths 6-8 by 7-10 in. bvoad at the base, pale, narrowed to a ^*^^^*y/'^*'°.- 



top 5-6 in. broad, strigose with golden hairs; blade 4-5 in., usually recurved, dec - 

 rent ' .» - «."..-." ' ' , •. -i-u „t,ffrppiirveu 



h. 



6-12 by li-2| in., oblong- to linear-lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate, •"""^^jj.;,, 

 both surfaces, tip and margins scabvouB, pale beneath and slightly hairy, ^^^'^^ 

 pale broad, nerves 10 pairs with 5-7 intermediate, cross-nervules f**^ ' f • ^y 

 smooth, striate, keeled, ending in a narrow ciliate callus, and bearing short or »^/ 

 auricles ; ligule very short, fimbriate. Panicles large, heads bracteate ; ^^^y^^Qarv 

 chaffy. L.,dicules lanceolate, acuminate, shortly ciliate, faintly 3.nerved. 

 ovoid, glabrous, style thickened ; stigmas 2-3, purple, plumose. 



143. DZNOCKXiOA, Biise. 



_ Lofty evergreen scandent Bamboos. Stems zigzag, usually ''?' ^j, 

 with persistent sheaths ; nodes with a broad leathery ring left by the ^° ^^ 

 Stem-sheaths thick, looeely clasping, base wrinkled. Leaves large, " ^^ 

 soft, transverse nervules of pellucid glands. Fatdcle large, compoun ).^ 

 slender spicate clnsters of spikelets. Spikelets very many, miQ"^^.' .^^ 

 subglobose sessile heads on short branchlets. 1-fld. ; rachUla laartici 

 not produced; empty gls. 1-4 broad, very obtuse, upper gradually /^ 8^,^^ 

 ti. gi similar ; palea convolute, not keeled, as long or longer tnd 

 gl. Lodicules 0. Stamens 6, free short. Ovari/ ovoid, glabrous, 

 short, aratn ovoid, acuminate.— Species, the following. 



1. D. Tjankorreh, Buse in Mia. PI. Jungh. 388; stem-ajieatbs 

 narrowed to the mouth, leaves 6-10 by 1-U in. Miq. i^^- J'^^'.f, 352; 

 ^\h- Munro in Trans. Linn. Sac. xxvi. 153, t. 5 ; Kurz Ind. J'orester.o .^ 



Gamble Bamh. Brit. Ind. 112. Bambusa scandens, Blurne ex i>«« 



