390 CLXXIII. GEAMINE^:. (Bambusece, Gamble.) [Bambusa. 



sheath glabrous, ending in a smooth callus and a rounded erect fringed auricle ; 

 ligule very short. Panicle very large, pale. Spikelets pale, sometimes curved; 

 rachilla short, clavate ; palea 3-5-nerved between the keels. Lodicules 3. Stigmas 3. 

 Very like B. Tulda, but distinguished by the stem-sheaths, smaller narrow leaves, 

 and ovary. 



8. B. affinis, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 93 ; shrubby, 

 blade of stem-sheaths small lanceolate, leaves lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate scabrid beneath tessellate by pellucid glands, sheath setose 

 keeled, ligule broad, spikelets about 1 in. in small distant whorls on terminal 

 leafy spikes or panicles 6-10-fld. coriaceous shining, fig. gls. acuminate 

 very-many-nerved folded at the base, palea much narrower, ovary sub- 

 obovoid. Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burm. ii. 551 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 39, 

 t. 36. 



Forests of MABTABAN & BTJKMA E. of the Sittang river, Kwz, Brandis. 



Stems 1520 ft. by 1 1 in. diam., pale green or striped with white, appressed- 

 pubescent; internodes 1-2 in., tubular, with black hairs below the slightly thickened 

 nodes. Stem-sheaths 4-6 in. long and broad, green, later straw-colrd., glabrous 

 or with patches of appressed -hairs, top rounded; blade 1-2 in., longer in young 

 shoots, usually recurved, appressed hairy within, base decurrent as a narrow 

 terminal wing of the sheath ; ligule narrow. Leaves 6-10 by 1~H, petiole rather 

 long, points twisted scabrid, nerves 8-10 ; sheath ending in a short callus. Spike- 

 lets in small whorls; rachilla short, top bearded ; palea 7-nerved between the keels, 

 4-nerved beyond them. Lodicules 3, many-nerved. Stigmas 3. 



9. B. khasiana, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 97 ; stem 

 solitary from a creeping rootstock, blade of stem-sheaths with large in- 

 flated wings above the contracted base, leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 

 late and sheaths glabrous, spikelets sterile (short) and fig. (long) yV^o i n> i a 

 distant heads on the spiciform branches of a long panicle 1-4 lowest gls. 

 empty or gemmiparous ovate mucronate strongly nerved, tig. gls. 2-3-fld 

 11-13-nerved, tip hairy within, palea as long as the gl. or longer many- 

 nerved, anthers obtuse, ovary narrowed into the style. Gamble Bamb. 

 Brit. Ind. 39, t. 37. 



KHASIA to the MTTNNEPORE HILLS, alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T., &c. 



Stems 30-40 ft. by l-l in. diam., graceful, fistular, rather soft, dull olive 

 green, young golden hairy ; internodes 5-15 in. with a whitish ring below the not 

 prominent nodes and bluish ring above them ; walls -^-y 3 ^ in. Stem-sheaths 5-6 

 by 4-5 in., tawnily hairy, straight top truncate ; blade as long as the sheath or 

 longer, cuspidately acuminate, auricles 0; ligule narrow. Leaves 4-9 by 1-1 5- in., 

 pale, tip setaceous shaggy, nerves 6-8 obscure ; sheath ending in a broad callus and 

 minute setose auricle; ligule elongate, truncate. Spikelets c t ylindric, at length 

 flattened. Branches of panicle fistular. Lodicules short, broad, fimbri-ate. 

 Stigmas 3. 



9*. B. NANA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 190 ; dwarf, shrubby, blade of stern-- 

 sheaths linear, leaves small linear-lanceolate, spikelets |-1 in. few clustered 

 or solitary on the branches of short diffuse panicles, gls. 5 or more all flg. 

 rarely the lowest empty ovate acute many-nerved, palea shorter than the 

 gl. keels minutely ciliate at or near the tip only, anthers obtuse or sub- 

 apiculate yellow, ovary obovoid. Wall. Cit. n. 5036 ; Munro in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxvi. (1868) 89 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burma, ii. 551 ; Ind. Forester, i. 339 ; 

 Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PI. 110; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 41, t. 38. B. caesia, 

 Sieb. & Zucc.fid. Munro. B. glauca, Lodd. Gat. ; Lindl. in Penny Cyd. iii. 



