Bambusa.} CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (Bambusece } Gamble.) 391 



(1835) 357. B. glaucescens, Siel. Gat. fid. Munro. B. sterilis, Kurz in Miq. 

 Ann. Sot. Lugd. Bat. ii. 285. B. viridi-glaucescens, Carr. in Rev. Hortic. 

 1869, 292. Arundinaria glaucescens, Beauv. Agrost. 144; Nees Agrost. 

 Bras. 526 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 426 ; Rupr. Bamb. 23, t. i. p. 3 ; Steud. 

 Syn. Gram. 334; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 413 ; Munro I.e. 22. Ischurochloa 

 floribunda, Buse in Miq. PI. Jungh. 390 ; Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 422. Ludolfia 

 glaucescens, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Bert. Mag. ii. (1808) 320. Pani- 

 cum arborescens, Lamk. Encycl. iv. 749. Triglossum arundinaceum, Fisch. 

 ex Roem. Sf Sch. Syst. Veg. 846. 



MALAYAN PENINSULA; Pahang, alt. 7000 ft, Wray (wild?). Cultivated in 

 Ceylon (CP. n. 4022) and in many parts of India. Native of China and Japan. 



Stems 6-10 ft., |-1 in. diam., densely tufted, hard, green then yellow, branched 

 from the base ; nodes thickened ; iuternodes 8-15 in. Stem-sheaths 4-6 by 2-3 in. 

 broad, stiff, glabrous, narrowed upwards, top rounded ; blade 2-3 in., acuminate, 

 decurrent on the sheath, ciliate, appressed-hairy or glabrous above ; ligule narrow, 

 entire. Leaves 2-4 by in., distichous, tip subulate twisted, not tessellate, costa 

 faint, nerves 3-6 ; sheath ending in a prominent callus, auricle fringed ; ligule short. 

 Spikelets straw-colrd. j rachilla flattened, glabrous ; palea many-nerved. Lodicules 

 linear. Style very short. Grain elliptic, furrowed, shortly beaked, top hairy. 



** Spikelets ovate-lanceolate in dense heads, flattened. 



10. B. Balcooa, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 196 ; stem-sheaths dimorphic, 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate base rounded, sheath hairy, heads of spikelets 

 bracteate, spikelets \-\ in. or more, empty gls. 0-2 ovate acute many- 

 nerved, tig. gls. 4-6 larger margins ciliate, palea as long as the gl. ovate 

 acute keels long-ciliate, anthers glabrous connective produced, ovary 

 broadly ovoid. Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 100; Brandis 

 For. Fl. Brit. Burm. 567 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 42, t. 39. B. capensis, 

 Rupr. Bamb. 54, t. 13, f. 54 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 330. B. Vasaria, Ham. ex 

 Wall. Gat. n. 5025. Dendrocalamus Balcooa, Voigt Hort. Suburb. 

 Galcutt. 718. 



BENGAL, from the Gogra, eastwd. to BEHAR and ASSAM. 



Stems 50-70 ft., 3-6 in. diam., coespitose, branched from the base, lower branches 

 stiff leafless ; internodes 8-18 in. with a whitish ring below and a hairy one above the 

 swollen nodes, walls thick. Stem-sheaths of two forms ; lower short, broad, ciliate, 

 top rounded ; blr.de short triangular decurrent into short fringed auricles ; upper 

 10-14 by 8-10 in., almost glabrous, ciliate, truncate, blade 6-8 by 3-4 in., closely 

 hairy above, margins recurved, base rounded and decurrent as a narrow band ; ligule 

 broad toothed. Leaves 6-12 by 1-2 in., pellucidly tessellate with glands, tip twisted 

 scabrid, margins scabrous-ciliate, nerves 7-11 j sheath appressed, hairy, truncate 

 above with a narrow callus, bristly or not; ligule broadly triangular, membranous. 

 Panicle compound, rachis pubescent or scurfy, swollen above ; palea obscurely nerved. 

 Lodicules 3, ovate or obovate, fimbriate. Anthers glabrous, pointed. Stigmas 3, 

 long. 



Sect. II. Arborescent or shrubby. Stems not spinous. Spikelets 

 'flattened ; fig. gls. few or many. Lodicules 2-3. 



10*. B. VULGARIS, Schrad. in Wendl Collect, ii. 26, t. 47 ; nodes with 

 a hairy ring, leaves linear-lanceolate petioled glabrous tessellate by pellucid 

 glands, sheath laxly hairy, callus smooth, auricle ciliate, ligule short, 

 spikelets -^Q-^Q in. in bracteate clusters of 3-10 oblong acute bifid, empty 

 gls. 1-2 ovate acute many-nerved tip ciliate, flg. gls. 6-10 larger, palea 

 as long as the gl. keels white-ciliate, anthers obtuse hairy aptculate 

 purple, ovary narrow hairy, style long. Roth Nov. Sp. 198 (excl. Syn. 



