CLXXIII. GBAMIKE.E. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 387 



auricled. Infl. generally a large leafless panicle bearing heads on spiciforra 

 branches, or of leafy panicles, or panicled spikes. Spikelets 1- many-fld. ; 

 lower gls. 1-4, empty or gemmiferous ; fl. gls. ovate-lanceolate, uppermost 

 imperfect ; palea 2-keeled. Lodicules 2-3, membranous, ciliate, rarely 0. 

 Stamens 6. Ovary oblong or obovate, tip hairy; style long or short, 

 stigmas 2-3. Grain oblong or linear-oblong, furrowed on one side ; peri- 

 carp thin, adherent. Species about 60, Eastern Asiatic, Malayan, and one 

 Australian. 



^ In enumerating the nerves of the leaves the principal ones on each side of the 

 midrib alone are given. 



A. Species of which the flowers are known. 



Sect. I. Arborescent (except B. nana and affinis). Stem not spinous. 

 Spikelels cylindric, except B, Balcooa. Lodicules 3. 



* Spikelets in loose heads. 



t Stem-sheaths with a triangular reniform or cordate blade, auricles 

 large. 



Keels of palea more or less ciliate or toothed. 



1. B. Tulda, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 193 ; leaves linear-oblong or -lanceolate, 

 spikelets 1-3 in. in interrupted clusters mixed with chaffy bracts usually 

 1-2 bracteolate 4-6-fld., lowest 3-4 gls. acute many-nerved usually gemmi- 

 parous, fig. gls. ^-1 in. ovate acute acuminate or mucronate, palea shorter 

 cymbiform, anthers obtuse glabrous purple, ovary obovate-oblong. Munro 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 91 ; Brand. For. Flor. 566 ; liurz For. 

 Fl. Burm. ii. 552 ^ Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 30, t. 29. B. Macala, Ham. ex 

 Wall. Cat. n. 5026 A. B. trigyna, Roxb. mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Dendrocalamus Tulda, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 718. Bambusa, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 5026 A, 5027, 5030 B, C. 



BENGAL, ASSAM, the NORTHERN CIRCAES, and BURMA, wild and cult. 



Gregarious. Stems 20-70 ft., 2-4 in. diam. ; nodes not swollen; internodes 

 1-2 ft., white-ringed below the nodes, walls - in. thick. Stem-sheaths 6-9 by 

 610 in. broad below, narrowed upwards, tip rounded or subtriangular, glabrous 

 hairy or white-powdered ; blade hairy within, auricles long-fringed. Leaves 6-10 

 by t~H i-, base usually rounded, tip subulate twisted, beneath glaucescent and 

 puberulous, pellucid glands faint, nerves 6-10 pairs ; petiole often hairy ; sheath 

 glabrous, ending in a smooth callus and oblong long-fringed auricle; ligule narrow, 

 obscure. Infl. variable, from an immense radical leafless panicle to a short leafy 

 panicle or spiciform branch; rachilla clavate, flattened, fragile; palea 5 7-nerved 

 between the keels, tip peuicillate. Lodicules 3. Flowers gregariously and in single 



2. B. nutans, Wall. Cat. n. 5031 ; stems solitary from a creeping 

 rhizome, leaves linear-lanceolate tessellate with pellucid glands, ligule 

 long obtuse hairy, spikelets in bracteate fascicles many empty or 

 gemmiparous, fertile few |-1 in., 2-3 lowest gls. neuter 3-7 fertile all 

 ovate acute mucronate many-nerved puberulous within, palea shorter 

 ovate flattened keels overlapping long ciliate, anther-tips long apiculate 

 or slightly penicillate, ovary subovoid. Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 

 (1868) 92; Brand. For. Flor. 567; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 32, t. 30. 

 B. crinita, Thorns, ex Munro I. c. 157. Bambusa Falconeri, Munro I. c. 

 95 in part. Bambusa, Wall. Cat. n. 5030 A. 



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