388 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (Bamlmsecc, Gamble.) [Bamlusa. 



LOWER HIMALAYA; from the Jumna to Assam and Eastern Bengal, ascending 

 to 5000 ft. in Sikkim. 



Stems 20-40 ft. by 1-J--3 in. diam., graceful, naked below, straight, nodes not 

 much raised often hairy, lower rooting; internodes 15-18 in., not shining, white- 

 ringed below the nodes, thick-trailed. Stem-sheaths 6-9 in., top roundly truncate, 

 dorsally clothed with black hairs, base with a ring of soft deciduous hairs ; blade of 

 lower nodes and uppermost shoots 6-9 in., of middle nodes shorter, acute, black- 

 hairy within, margins recurved, base rounded decurrent on the top of the sheath with 

 large waved densely bristly auricles, bristles long curved. Leaves 6-12 by 1-1 in., 

 white beneath when dry, tip twisted scabrid, midrib and margins scabrid, nerves 

 7-10 ; sheath ending in a smooth callus and falcate auricle with long bristles. Inft. 

 a stiff panicle with spiciform branches. Lodicules 3, long-fimbriate. Difficult to 

 distinguish from _B. Tulda without flowers, except by the rhizome. B. Falcon eri, 

 Munro, was founded on flower of B. nutans and leaves of Dendrocalamus Hamiltoni. 



3. B. tereSj Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 5026 B; steins coespitose, leaves 

 large oblong-lanceolate tesseilate by pellucid glands, spikelets 1-2 in. in 

 bracteate heads neuter and fertile, 1-2 lowest gls. empty or gemmiparous 

 ovate acute mucronate, fig. gls. 5-6 ovate-lanceolate from a broad base 

 acute many-nerved tip sometimes foliaceous, palea ovate acute scabernlous 

 5-6-nerved between the toothed keels, anthers narrow tips penicillate. 

 Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 95 ; Gamble Banib. Brit. Ind. 

 33, t. 31. 



EASTERN BENGAL; Gongachora, Hamilton. ASSAM, Jenkins. 



Stems 60 ft. by 3 in. diam., nodes ringed by the bases of fallen sheaths ; internodes 

 20 in., walls T 3 jj- T *o in. thick. Stem-sheaths 8-10 in. long and broad, hardly- 

 narrowed upwards, top rounded, nearly glabrous ; blade 46 in., triangular, cuspi- 

 date, base rounded and decurrent in broad wavy fringed auricles, appressed-hairy 

 beneath ; ligule narrow, white-hairy. Leaves 12-14 by If If in., tip long-acuminate 

 twisted scubrid, base unequally narrowed shortly pubescent beneath, nerves 10-16, 

 pellucid glands many ; sheath ending in a broad shining callus; ligule short. Infl. 

 a large compound panicle with spiciform branches bearing fascicles of spikelets and 

 chaffy bracts. Lodicules sub-obovate, fiinbriate, many-nerved. 



4 B. Ridleyi, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 34, t. 32 ; leaves 12-14 by 

 l|-2 in. margins smooth, sbeath exauricled, ligule deeply 2-lobed, spike- 

 lets 1-2 in. few in distant clusters 3-5-fld. many neuter, empty gls. 2-4 

 ovate acuminate, fl. gls. ovate-lanceolate mucronate many-nerved, palea 

 shorter oblong keels minutely ciliate near the 2-fid tip, anthers long narrow 

 setosely apiculate. 



SINGAPORE, at Buldt Timah, Ridley. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, tip subulate scabrid with its margins recurved, 

 scaberulous above, smooth beneath, nerves 10-12 pair, petiole broad ; sheath 

 appressed hairy, subcarinate, ending in a narrow callus, margins truncate at the 

 ligule which has long stiffy ciliate lobes. Infl. on long spiciform leafy branches 

 bearing very distant clusters of few spikelets. JRachilla short. Palea many-nerved 

 between the keels. Lodicules 3, many -nerved, long-fimbriate. Habit and stem- 

 sheaths unknown. 



5. B. burmanica, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 35, t. 33 ; leaves of 

 young plants 10-12 by -|-2 in. white-hairy on both surfaces of older 

 smaller smooth above hairy beneath, ligule short, spikelets 1 in. or less in 

 spiciform branches of a panicle each in the axil of a long narrow truncate 

 bract, empty gls. 2 mucronate, fig. gls. 5-6 ovate acute many -nerved, palea 

 elliptic-ovate keels ciliate, anthers narrow tips apiculate. 



