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Toungoo District, and sent by Mr. Hole, are very large, and may 
reach 24 in. in length and 5 in. in breadth, and end in a long and 
slender hispid acumination. Mr. Dickins’ description is worth 
quoting. He says: “‘ Wathabut is of evergreen caespitose type,’ 
tufted, semi-scandent, straggling and drooping, forming a thicket. 
Height 15-40 ft., more if the culms were erect. Internodal 
distance 18-24 in. and over (the specimens sent by Mr. Hole had 
the distance 32 inches, and two culms were 1-4 in. in diam.). 
Occurs at elevations of 3,000—4,000 ft. with a rainfall of over 
200 in. a year. Appears to be flowering gregariously this year 
(1922). The culms are used for house-building and baskets, 
and owing to its thin walls, its pliability and the length between 
nodes is a useful species.” 
I now come to a third species, which I think belongs to the 
same genus, as it has the spikelets in pairs, 1-flowered, a convolute 
palea, biaristate at tip, and monadelphous stamens. It was 
collected in 1919 in Tavoy by Mr. C. Gilbert Rogers, C.1.E., then 
Chief Conservator of Forests in Burma, who describes it as “a 
small erect bamboo with culms from 10 to 15 ft. high, solid at base, 
about 2 in. in girth, and having the internodes of an average of 
14-15 inches.”” It has the curious character of possessing on the 
lower side at the top of the leaf-sheath, a triangular horn-like 
appendage to the callus. I propose to call it N. tavoyana, and 
append a description of it. 
Neohouzeaua tavoyana Gamble n. sp. Erectus, culmis 
3-4-5 m. altis, circiter 1-5 em. diametro, prope basim solidis. 
Folia oblonga, apice longe setaceo-acuminata, basi subobtusa, 
glabra, 25-35 cm. longa, 3-6 em. lata, nervis primariis utringue 
6-10; petiolus crassus, planus, 1 cm. longus; vaginae glabrae 
teretes, sub petiolo productae et ad latus inferius callo triangulari 
cornuto munitae ; ligulae productae, 3-4 mm. longae, apice 
lacerae. Spiculae binae in capitulis ad nodos paniculae terminalis 
sugranaied. capitulae inferiores- sub- -globosae, multispiculatae, 
diametro, superiores gradatim minores, ultimae 
SL vel nullas gerentes ; spiculae uniflorae, angustae, 2-2-5 cm. 
longae, basi bracteis multis suffultae et glumis vacuis mucronatis 
2-3 ad basim munitae. Gluma florens ovato-oblonga, apice 
longiuscule aristata, dorso subglabra vel paullo hirsuta, 1-1-2 cm. 
longa, margine minute ciliato-scabra; palea angustissima multum 
convoluta, apice biaristata, 2-2-5 cm. longa. Stamina 6, mona- 
delpha, antheris gracilibus, circiter 1 cm. longis, apice subobtusis. 
Lodiculae nullae vel 2 _ brevissimae. an longissimum, 
stigmatibus rubris. Caryopsis nondum visu 
Burma. Sinyat hill in Tavoy at 300 m. ee C. G. Rogers, 
Jan. 1919. No. 361 T, 
In the size of the spikelet and, indeed, also, in me de of the 
leaves, this species is intermediate between. N. Dullooa and 
N. Helferi. It may be hoped that one of Mr. Rogers’ successors 
will be able to ascertain more about it and send the culm-sheaths 
which have not yet been collected. 
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