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in the Bulletin of the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, at 
Paris, for 1922, page 100, with the suggestion that a Burmese 
bamboo of which he was sending good and complete specimens 
and hitherto known as Teinostachyum Helferi, might belong to it. 
The genus Teinostachyum was first established by Genl. 
William Munro, C.B., in his ‘ Monograph of the Bambusaceae.’ 
Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. xxvi (1868) to contain two species 
(1) 7. Griffithit of Assam and Burma and i” T. attenuatum of 
Ceylon, and a third was added later by Col. R. H. Reddome 3 in his 
‘Flora Sylvatica’ of S. India and Ceylon, viz.: 7’. Wightii, of 
the mountains of S. India. The chief s: peal of the genus 
were :—‘‘ Spikelets in bracteate whorls, long, many-flowered, 
glumes mucronate, palea convolute, stamens with free filaments, 
ovary long-beaked.”’ 
When writing the “ Bambusex of British India,’ Vol. vii, of 
the ‘ Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta,’ I added to 
the other three two more which were imperfectly known. They 
were fairly well represented in Herbaria as regards leaves, etc., 
but good flower spikelets were not then available These two 
species were 7’. Dullooa, a widespread bamboo of the Eastern 
Himalaya, Assam, Chittagong and Burma, and 7’. Helferi, of the 
hills of Assam and Burma, originally described by Munro as 
Bambusa Helfert and transferred by Kurz to acenahb nates ge 
genus which I thought it, very unlikely to belong to. 
A few years ago, I received ea specimens of 7’. Dullooa, 
collected at Mogaung, in Burma, by Mr. H. N. Thompson, 
eputy Conservator of Forests, in  Magoh: 1896, and recognised 
that the structure of the flowers, with only one flower in each 
spikelet and monadelphous stamens, would not do for T'einos- 
‘tachyum, but I was too busy with other work to do more with 
‘the question either then or in 1921, when Mr. Hole sent me _ 
flowers from Sibsagar, in Assam, so Tam glad to find that Mlle. 
‘A. Camus has taken the matter up and has described her own 
genus to contain two species, one from China, N. Mekongensis, and 
the other my 7’. Dulloca, whose range she extends to Tonkin, 
whence the Paris Herbarium had received specimens collected by 
Mons. Balansa. Indeed, it goes further than Tonkin, for I 
‘feel pretty sure that Dr. E. D. Merrill’s No. 8246, collected in 
Mindanao, in the Philippines, leaf and roses specimens only, 
is in all probability the same species 
Mile. A. Camus’ description of the genus Neohouzeaua is as 
follows :— 
* Panicula ERs ramosa, densa. Spiculae fertiles 1-florae; 
glumae steriles 3-4, mucronatae, saepe gemmiparae; gluma 
fertilis involuta, mucronata, subaristata ; palea involuta, elongata, 
ecarinata, apice bicuspidata. Glandulae o vel parvulae. Stamina 6; 
filamenta connata; antherae apice obtusae. Ovariwm oblongum ; 
es Ses crassiusculus, elongatus ; ; stigmata 3, exserta. 
ructus . 
