Bambusa.] OLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 389 



UPPER BURMA ; Katha district, Oliver. 



Stems 50-60 ft., 4 in. diam., dull green, nearly solid, internodes 12 in. with a 

 ring of white hairs below the not much swollen nodes. Stem-sheaths green with 

 yellow margins, rather broader than long, top rounded, sides with appressed golden 

 hairs ; blade broadly cordate, cuspidate, base dilated into large rounded fringed 

 auricles ; ligule short. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, base unequally narrowed or 

 rounded, tip with a twisted scabrous point, pellucid glands many, nerves 5-8 

 pair ; sheath reddish-brown, keeled, tip truncate with a small deciduous auricle and 

 deciduous cilia ; ligule short, denticulate. Infl. a panicle of spiciform branches ; 

 rachis wiry. Palea with overlapping margins and 4-5 nerves between the keels ; 

 rachilla short, thick. Lodicules 3, 5-6-nerved, ciliate. Ovary stipitate. Grain 

 oblong, top hairy. A large handsome species. 



Keels of palea eciliate. 



6. B. polymorpha, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (18(58) 98 ; 

 leaves small linear at first hairy on both surfaces, ligule very short, spike- 

 lets about | in. few together in many bracteate fascicles born on the 

 long spiciform branches of a large panicle, shining, each in the axil of a 

 long bract, empty gls. 1-3 ovate acuminate, tig. 2-3 ovate mucronate many- 

 nerved, palea rather longer lanceolate, anthers obtuse or apiculate. Kurz 

 For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 553 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 36, t. 34 Bambusa 

 cyanostachya, Kurz MS. in Herb. Kew. 



EASTERN BENGAL, PEGU & MARTABAN, Brandis, &c. 



Evergreen, tutted, sometimes deciduous ; stems attaining 50-80 ft. by 3-6 in. 

 diam., curving outward, young white-scurfy, nodes thickened ; internodes 15-24 in. 

 Stem-sheaths 6-7 in. by 12-14 broad, thick, dorsally densely white-pubescent, 

 narrowed upwards and curved ; blade reniform, 3 in. long, plaited and long 

 ciliate below, b;ise rounded and dilating into a broad band lining the top of 

 the sheath, auricles falcate, the whole fringed with bristles ; ligule narrow, entire. 

 Leaves 3-7 by J | in., base rounded or narrowed, nerves 4-6 pairs; sheath com- 

 pressed, hairy, ending in a callus and minute auricle with deciduous bristles. 

 Spikelets often brownish, subpedicelled, enclosed in a long curved glabrous bract. 

 Lodicules 3, suborbicular. Anthers purple. Grain i in., ovate, plano-convex, top 

 hairy. 



ft Stem-sheaths with a very long or narrow or imperfect blade, 

 auricles or minute; keels of palea ciliate. 



7. B. pallida, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 97 ; cosspitose, 

 blade of stem-sheaths very long auricles small, leaves linear-lanceolate 

 glabrous above often white-hirsute beneath, spikelets 1-li in. fertile and 

 neuter on the spiciform branches of a large panicle, 1 or 2 lowest gls. 

 ovate acute empty, then one male or gernmiparous followed by 3-8 tig. and 

 3-5 imperfect,, tig. gls. ovate acute mauy-nerved, palea much shorter 

 acute, anther-tip 1-2-setose or naked, ovary narrowed into the hairy style. 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 37, t. 35. B. critica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 xlii. (1873) ii. 250. Dendrocalamus criticus, Kurz For. Flor. Brit. Burm. 

 ii. 559. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, N. & E. BENGAL, the KHASIA HILLS, ASSAM, UPPER 

 BURMA & PEGU, alt. 5-6000 ft. (cult, in the plains below). 



Stems graceful, 40-60 ft. by 2-3 in. diam., olive green; nodes not prominent; 

 intt modes 18-30 in., walls th'in. Stem-sheaths 7-12 by about 10 in. broad, top 

 straightly truncate, young more rounded, glabrous or liaiiy; blade up to 14 in., 

 triangular, acuminate, sparsely hairy, margins and very small auricles brifetly ; ligule 

 very nanow. Leaves 48 by - in., tip subulate scabrid twisted, nerves 4-6 ; 



