98 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



palcas, but smaller. Inner palea of the hermaphrodite floreat bicarinato on the 

 back. Lodicides 3, fewer, or noue. Stamens G, the fihiraents long and free. Ovary 

 naked, the style elongate, simple, or bi- or trifid, caducous. Cari/npsis with a mem- 

 branous testa, raucrouate. 



Stigmas tvhite. Shout-slieaths not, or obseureli/, anricled at the mouth. 



Unarmed bamboos. 

 *B. NANA, Ito.rb. A native of China and .Japan, cultivated 



Pu-lau-pinan-wu (Kurz). about Kangoon and Muulmain. 



Wa, generic for Bamboo. Leaves small, whitish pruinose beneath. 



Internodcs h a foot long or more. Lodicides 3, longer than the ovary, entire. 

 Filaments elongate, exscrted. Anthers yellowish, with purplish streaks, pendulous. 

 Ovaiy rough at the apex. i>tyle veiy short, persistent. Stigmas 3, pilose, white. 



Shoot-sheaths conspieuoushj atiricled, or the Hade decurrent into an auricle-shaped 

 appendage. Auricles polished, without fringes. 



B. AFFiNis, Munr. (p. 93). Eug forests East of the Tsit-toung- 



Thaik-wa (Kurz). 



Mouth of loaf-sheaths long, produced, the ligule as produced and as long as the 

 petiole. Outer palea more than 20-nerved, inner one 7-nei'ved, between the 2-fringed 

 angles of the dejiressed back. Lodicules 3, the 2 larger often united. Ovary nearly 

 hairy at the apex, and tapering into a 3-elet't style. 



Auricles large, strongly fringed. 



B. TXJLDA, Eoxb. (p. 91). Arukan, Pegu and Tonasserim, cultivated 



Thaik-wa. i^i Chittagong. 



Shoot-sheaths white-powdered, or almost pruinose, the appressed bristles scanty, 

 brown. Anthers yellow, angles of inner palea ciliate. Spikclets clustered, 2 or more ; 

 the lower 2 or 3 palcas geniraiparous, all tlie others hermaplirodite or rarelj- one of 

 the lower ones male. Anthers yellow, blunt. Style short, trifid. Stigmas long, 

 white, pilcse. 



B. poLYiioRrnA, Munr. (p. 98). Pegu and Martaban. 



Kya-thon-wa (Kurz). 



Shoot-sh( aths green and yellow, the appressed bristles white. Anthers purple ; 

 angles of inner palea ([uite smooth. Spikelets with 3 to 5 small empty glumes at the 

 base, polished, steel-blue on the sunny side, the lower one or two florets reduced to 

 empty palcas, the upper one female with a long, petlicelled rudimentary floret. Styles 

 white, pUose. 



B. viLLoscLA, Kurz. _ Limestone hills of Upper Tenasserim. 



Ta-dein-wa (Kurz). 



Flowers unknown. Leaves whitish-glaucous and pubescent beneath. Leaf- 

 sheaths long, and slenderly caudiculate. 



Stigmas purple. 



Thorny bamboos. 



B. AR^NDr^fACEA, Willd. Chittagong and all over Burma. 



Kya-kat-wa. 



Shoot-sheaths glossy, smooth, purple to scarlet. Leaves small. Angles of inner 

 paleas tomcntose-ciliatc. Anthers yellow. Branchlets armed witli recurved sprues. 

 In Munro's monograph some other species occur not recognized by Kurz. 



B. MARGINATA, Muur. (p. 11-1). 



AVa-ni. 



