ORMirXE.K. 99 



B. EEoiA, Thomson (p. 11(5). 

 Hti-wa. 



" This is a most elegant bamboo on account of the regularity of the nodes. It is 

 brought to JIaulmaiu in great quantities andjised as handles for umbrellas." — Brandts. 



B. spiNOSA, Roxb. (p. 105). . Mergui. Martabau. Pegu. 



B. VULGARIS, "Wendl. (p. 107). 



Filaments connate in a (tihe. 



GlGANTOCHLOA,' luilZ. 



Spilcelets crowded, quinqucfloral to multifloral. Glumes none or conform to the 

 lower palcas. Inner palea of fertile florets, bout-shaped. Lodicules none or ineoni- 

 plete. Siamena 0, or occasionally 7 to 9. The filaments united in a tube and 

 e.xserted. Ovary membranous, the style simple, or bilid or triiid, caducous. 



Spikelets white-hair ij. Stigmas white. 



G. (oxTTEyANTHEEA) ALDo-ciLiATA, ITuur. (p. 129). All o\ cr Pegu and Tenasserim. 



"^"fi-hpyu-ga-le (Kurz). 



Slioot-sheatbs almost one-fourth the length of the inteniodes, spreadinc;, tawny- 

 hispid. Ligule nearly half an inch long, cross-toothed. Angles of inner palea white, 

 pilose. Anthers yellow. 



G. (Oxytenantheka) xioro-cii.iata, ]Munr. (p. 12S). llartaban. 



Not recognized by Kurz, and perhaps therefore regarded as a var. of the last. 



Spilcelets black or hrown-hainj. 

 G. (Dengchloa) AxDAiTANicA, Kz. Tho Andaraans and Nleobars. 



Spikelets | to 1 inch long. Shoot-sheaths densely appressed, black-setose on 

 the sides. Auricle smooth and polished, nude. 



G. AnticuLATA, Kz. Southern Pegu. Cultivated in Arakan. 



Ta-la-ku-wa (Kurz). 



Like the last, but sheaths sparingly tawny-setose. 



G. MACKosTACurA, Kz. Tree forests of Tcnasserim, and 



■^'-.m,(. cultivated in Arakan and Pegu. 



Spikelet lA to 2 inches long. Shoot-sheaths densely appressed, black-setose. 

 Auricles large, strongly tawny-fring(Ml. Anthers purple. Stigmas while. 



Caryopsis often rather large, the pericarp separating he/ore ripening, into an. 

 outer firmly coriaceous or thick fieshy trail {ipiearp), the inner cellular tissue in a drtcd 

 state, more or less closely embracing the seed. The style persistent, rarely caducous. 



Inner 2>alea boat-shaped and 2-earinate, or diplanate tri/h a 2-lcccled apex. 



Caryopsis rather small. 



Dexdrocalamus, JVces von Essenheclc. 



"Differs from. Bamhusa in the pericarp of the caryopsis being coriaceous or hard.- 



OtUer paleas terminated by a ptmgent bristle or point. Anthers yellotv. Stigmas 

 purple. 



' " Genus Oxyttnanlhera, Slunro (cxccpta 0. Thwaitesii) nulla notit differt a G'tgantoMna nisi 

 caryopside t'longata ; valvul.i interior in "inuibus spcciol)us a in« oxiuninatis doplanata et biciiriuata 

 cvadit. Oxjantocliha f;cnus valdi; artilicialo et filamentis conuatis vix, ac ne vix a liambiml dilfert. 

 Habitus et spirularum structuni in generibus Bamhusa et Gigatiloctiloa siniili modi) variat, et species ex 

 habitu aretissime aHines. e.g. B. polymorpha et Giijuiitochlua «s/)«i« spiculis omnino inter se differant."— 

 Kurz, J.A.S.H. II. 1873, p. 2,51. 



- Kurz remarks, " Caryopsis DouJroealami non est baccata nee perisynio circunidata, sed cpieai-jn'mn 

 plane coriaoeum vel subcrustaceum, nee membranaceum uti in Btimbusa sensu stricto." — J.A.S.B. II. 

 1873, p. 250. 



