Dendrocalamus.] OLXXIII. GRAMINEJE. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 405 



Sect. II. Spikelets in large soft congested heads. Leaves usually 

 broad. 



4. D. sikkimensis, Gamble in Hook. Ic. PL t. 1770, Bamb. Brit. 

 Ind. 82, t. 72 ; stem- sheaths felted with golden brown hairs, leaves 6-10 by 

 1^2 in. oblong-lanceolate strigosely hirsute and rough beneath, mouth of 

 leaf-sheaths fringed, spikelets 3 in. in large globose red-brown heads 

 lanceolate subobtuse glabrous, empty gls. 3-4 ovate keeled keels ciliate, 

 tig. gls. 2-3 ovate mncronate glabrous margins ciliate, anthers acute. 

 Gard. Chron. (1890), i. 792, fig. 130, II. 279 (1892), ii. 675 cum Ic. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA; Sikkira and Bhotan, alt. 4-6000 ft. GAEUOW HILLS, on 

 Tura Peak. alt. 3500 ft. 



Stem 50-60 ft. by 5-7 in. diam., naked below, dark green, nodes ringed, inter- 

 nodes 18 in., rough. Stem-sheaths 12 by 15 in., top broad; blade lanceolate, re- 

 curved, hairy on both surfaces, decunreut into two large falcate recurved auricles 

 fringed with long curved pale bristles ; ligule sharply serrate. Leaves variable, tip 

 black twisted, base rounded, smooth above, midrib prominent, nerves about 10 pairs; 

 sheath smooth, callus small ciliate, auricles fringed with stiff' bristles ; ligule short, 

 timbriate. Panicle large, branches nodose, heads of spikelets 1^ in. diam., rachis 

 dull brown puberulous, interuodes about 2 in. JPalea of lower fl. obtuse, keels 

 s'hairgy many-nerved. Ovary subglobose, hairy; style short, thick, and clavate 

 stigma hairy. Grain depressed obovoid, apiculute, wrinkled below. 



5. Z>. Hooker!, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 151 ; stem- 

 sheaths felted with black or brown hairs, leaves 10-12 by 2 in. or more 

 oblong-lanceolate rough beneath, mouth of leaf-sheath not fringed, spike- 

 lets about 5 in. in large heads ovate acute puberulous, empty gls. 2 ovate 

 obtuse, flg. gls. 2-3 ovate acute many-nerved uppermost mucronate, anthers 

 long tips penicillate. Brandis For. Flor. 570 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 

 84, t. 73. Bambnsa globifera, Griseb. in Goett. Nachr. (1868), 72. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, Anderson, &c. ASSAM, the KHASIA, JAINTEA, and DUPHLA 

 HILLS, alt. 2-5000 ft., /. D. H. fy T. T., &c. BURMA; Bhamo district, Oliver. 



Stem 50-60 ft. by 4-6 in. diam., naked below, internodes 18-20 in., lower some- 

 what rough and hairy, walls about 1 in. thick ; branches long, curving. Stem- 

 sheaths large, old very broad, younger about 16 in. by 8-12 broad at the base, top 

 2-3 in. broad'; auricles 2, rounded, ciliate with stiff hairs; blade 3-7 in., triangular, 

 hairy above ; ligule ^-5 in., sharply serrate. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, tip long 

 twisted hispid, base rouaded very shortly petioled, midrib very prominent yellow, 

 nerves 8-16 pairs, tessetlate by pellucid glands (seen when dry) ; sheath hairy below, 

 shining above, truncate, sometimes sparingly hairy, callus large ; ligule conspicuous, 

 glabrous. Panicle large, internodes 2-3 in., dull grey-green, somewhat hirsute ; 

 heads of spikelets 1 in. diam. ; fl. gls. with transverse uervules. Ovary ovoid, 

 acuminate, hairy, style twisted, stigma plumose. 



6. X>. Hamilton!!, Nees & Arn. ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 

 (1868) 151; stem-sheaths glabrous, leaves broadly lanceolate cuspidate, 

 spikelets nearly -| in. long ovoid depressed purple glabrous, empty gls. 

 usually 2 short rounded nerved, flg. gls. 2-4 orbicular margins ciliate, 

 anthers purple with a long black hairy twisted point. Brandis For. FL 

 570. Bambusa monogyna, Griff. Notul. 63, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 2. B. maxima, 

 Ham. ex Wall. Gat. n. 5039. B. Falconeri, Munro I. c. 95, in part. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal (cult. ?) to Sikkim, ASSAM, the KHASIA 

 HILLS, and SILHET. 



Stems up to 80 ft. by 4-7 in. diam., much branched above, young appressedly 

 white-pubescent, nodes with root-scars; internodes 12-20 in., walls ^ in. thick. 



