4. Ox i TEN ANTHER A.] 139. GRAMINE.E. 



long-miicronate imperfect one ; palea narrow 2-3-nerved between the 

 ciliate keeJs, anther-tips elongate slender hirsute. 



Valleys in the Mais of Pari ! 



I believe the flowers of the Pari plant have never been collected and the bamboo- 

 has been identified by comparison of the veg-etative organs only. The description 

 of the fls. is from Gamble (from Burmah specs.). The bamboo must have flowered 

 in Pun not many years before my arrival there in 1915 as I found young plants up 

 to 15 ft. hio-h and less. These have leaves 11" by 2-5" and are pale beneath but 

 S-labrous. the small transverse nervnles (described as glands in F.B.I.) are very 

 distinct, the sheath has a notch just below the petiole which appears articulate on 

 It, the nerves at the base are somewhat flabellate and the blade at the base hairy 

 above. When young- the stem- and leaf-sheaths are dorsally black-strigose. The 

 green oblong or ovate and rounded erect auricles are a very good character for 

 recognising this species. 



5. PHRAGMITES, Trin. Reed. 

 Tall stout perennial grasses with long leaves. Spikelets in large 

 decompound panicles, not jointed on pedicel, laterally compressed ; 

 rhachilla jointed at the base above glume iii* and between the other 

 flowering glumes not produced beyond them, elongate between the 

 glumes and with very long silky hairs above gl. iii. Glumes 5-9, 

 glabrous ; i and ii unequal lanceolate, 1-3-nerved, membranous, 

 persistent ; iii much longer narroAvly oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3- 

 nerved, male or neuter, persistent* ; iv and other flg. glumes subulate- 

 lanceolate, subaristate, hyaline ; palea much shorter. Lod. obtuse. 

 St. 1-3. .Styles 2, terminal, free, stigmas plumose. Grain oblong, 

 terete. 



1. P. karka, Trin. 8yn. Arundo karka, Roxb. Nal, H. ; Jankai, K. ; 

 Narkat, Veni. 



A very large grass 10-20 ft. high with rather close-jointed hollow 

 stems, often widely spreading by means of long stolons. Leaves stiff 

 erect distichous 1-2 ft. long by 1-1-5" broad, smaller upwards. 

 Panicles erect lanceolar oblong or oval with branches ultimately 

 widely spreading. Spikelets grey or brown ; gl. i hnear-lanceolate 

 •1", 1 -nerved ; ii -3", 3 -nerved ; iii -5—52"; iv as long or longer, 

 other 3-4 flg. glumes successively a little shorter, tip aristiform. 

 Pedicels glabrous. 



Along rivers and marshes. Piirneali ! Santal Parg. ! Shahabad ! Monghvr ! 

 Gya! Throughout Chota Nagpur ! No doubt throughout the province. Fl. 

 Sept.-Dec. 



The stems are made into shepherds' pipes ()-ofu) and are used for preparing 

 fishtraps (kitmbaf, K.'j. The tender shoots are greatly appreciated by horses but 

 are laxative. 



Triraphls madagascariensis, Hook. f. Syn. Neyraudia madagas- 



cariensis, Hook. f. (in F.B.I.). 



This is a very large handsome grass, resembling a Phragmites in 



general appearance, which is frequent in sandy nalas in the Tarai and 



Duars and may perhaps be found in Purneah and the Santal Parganas. 



* According to books consulted but I find the rhachilla often articulate above ii 

 and gl. iii readily falling like the other flg. glumes 



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