404 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJE. (Bambusea, Gamble.) \_Dendrocalamus. 



depressed, stigma usually simple. Grain small, pericarp coriaceous or 

 crustaceous. Species 16 known. 



Sect. I. Spikelets hard, spinescent, crowded in spicate heads. Leaves 

 usually narrow. 



1. D. strictus, Nees in Linnsea, ix. (1834) 476 ; leaves up to 10 by 

 1J in., shortly suddenly petioled softly hairy beneath, spikelets 5-3 in. 

 hairy spinescent fertile and smaller sterile mixed, empty gls. 2 or more 

 ovate spinescent many-nerved, flg. g]s. ovate tip spinescent and pubescent, 

 palea of lower 6-7-nerved between the ciliate keels, anthers apiculate. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat.u\. 421; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 147 ; 

 Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. cccxxv., Forest. Man. p. ccxxxv. ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 569, t. 70 ; Kurz For. Flor. Burma, ii. 558, Ind. Forester, i. 346 ; Aitcliis. 

 Cat. Panjab. PI. 171 ; Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 71 ; Gamble Bamb. 

 Brit. Ind. 78, t. 68, 69. Bambos stricta, Roxb. Corom. PL i. 58, t. 80. 

 Bambusa stricta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 193 : Kunth in Journ. Phys. xlv. (1822) 

 148 ; Enum. PL i. 431 ; Ruprecht Bamb. 56, t. 12, f . 56 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 330 : Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 299. B. verticillata, Eottl. ex Munro I. c. 

 B. piibe.-^ens. Lorfd. ex Lindl. in Penny Cyclop, iii. (1835) 357. B. Tanaea, 

 Ham. ex Wall. GoL n. 5038 A. Bambusa, Wall. Cat. n. 5038. 



Dry hills of N. INDIA, from Garwhal to Nepal and southward from the PANJAB 

 to BEHAR, the CONCAN, CENTRAL and S. INDIA, BURMA, and GREAT Cocoa ISLD. 

 .(Not in Ceylon.) DISTRIB. Java. 



Stems 20-50 ft. by 1-3 in. diatn., hollow in moist climates, solid in dry, young 

 glaucous green, old yellowish, nodes swollen, lower often rooting, iuternodes 12-18 in., 

 upper branches decurved. Stem-sheaths variable, lower 3-12 in., glabrous or strigose 

 with yellow-brown hairs, striate, top rounded ciliate, slightly auricled ; blade tri- 

 angular, hairy, especially within ; ligule narrow. Leaves deciduous, narrowed from 

 the rounded petioled base to the twisted tip, midrib prominent, nerves 3-6 pairs 

 with interposed pellucid glands ; sheath striate hairy, callus prominent, auricle 

 short ciliate with flexuous deciduous hairs ; ligule narrow, serrate. Panicle large, 

 heads dense, 1-1 in., much smaller in S. Indian forms ; rachis smooth, internodes 

 1^-2 in. Spikelets usually hairy. Ovary stipitate, turbinate, style long, stigma 

 simple feathery. Grain broadly ovoid, shining, beaked, hairy above. 



Yar. Prainiana, Gamble I.e. 80, t. 69, fig. A.; spikelets smaller, fls. fewer, fl. 

 gls. nearly glabrous. Great Cocos Isld., Prain. 



2. D. sericeus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 148 ; cha- 

 racters of D. strictus, but spikelets silkily hairy, anther-tips obtuse. 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 81, t. 70. 



BEHAR, summit of Parus-nath, alt. 4000 ft., /. D. H., &c. 



(I should regard this as a variety of D. strictus had it not been retained by 

 Muuro & Gamble. The latter describes the empty gls. as obtuse, but they are acute 

 in the plate referred to. J. D. H.) 



3. D. membranaceus, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 149 ; 

 stems scurfy when young, leaves 5-10 by -f in. hispid above, spikelets 

 | in., glossy nearly glabrous, empty gls. 2 ovate obtuse or acute, fl. gls. 

 2-3 ovate mucronate glabrous margins often ciliate, anthers apiculate. 

 Kurz For. FL Burma, ii. 560 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 81, t. 71. 



EASTEBN BURMA, Wallich, &c. 



Closely resembles glabrous forms of D. strictus, but stem-sheaths with waved 

 hairy auricles, leaves thinner, base less rounded, grain more elongate, and grooved. 



