408 CLXXIII. GRAMIXEJD. (Bamlusece, Gamble.) [Dendrocaltimus. 



hairy beneath, spikelets ^-^ in. depressed ovate puberulous, erupty gls. 

 1-2 broadly ovate mucronate, fig. gls. 2-4 similar few-nerved margins 

 ciliate hairy below the tip, anthers short apiculate or penicillate greenish- 

 yellow. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 90, t. 79. Bambusa Brandisii, Munro 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 209. 



BURMA ; Pegu, Martaban Hills, and Bnby-mines district, Kurz, &c. 



Stems 60-100 ft. by 5-8 in. diam., tufted; nodes slightly swollen, iuteruodes 

 asby-grey, 12-15 in., walls tbick. Stem-sheaths up to 2 ft. by 12-14 in., top 

 depressed; blade 6-18 in., linear-lanceolate, strigose within, decurrent in small 

 plaited auricles ; ligule ^- in., lacerate. Leaves base narrowed, petiole wrinkled, 

 midrib stout shining, nerves 1012 with transverse pellucid glands ; young 1 sheaths 

 pubescent, mouth with a few long cilia, callus large, glabrous. Panicle large, 

 branches whip-like, rachis densely pubescent flattened on one side, internodes 

 1-1^ in. ; heads | in. diam., bracteate ; paleawith 3-nerved side wings. Lodicules 

 1, 2, or 0, 3-nerved, long-ciliate. Filaments short. Ocary ellipsoid, hairy, style 

 short, stigmas 2 plumose. Grain ovoid, nmcronate, hairy above. Perhaps not 

 different specifically from D.flagellifer. 



13. D. flag-ellifer, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 150; very 

 near D. Brandisii, but leaf-ba.se more rounded, rachis of spikes more hairy, 

 heads with fewer spikelets. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 91, t. 80. Bambusa 

 flagellifera, Griff, mss. ? B. Bitting, Schult. Syst. vii. II. 1354. 



TENASSERIM ; on Moolyet, alt. 2000 ft., Beddome. SINGAPORE, Ridley. 

 A little known species, probably only D. Brandisii. 



14. D. longifimbriatus, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 92, t. 81 ; leaves 

 12-14 by 2-3 in. oblong acuminate, auricles of sheath long falcate stiffly 

 ciliate with curved bristles, spikelets very small glabrous, empty gls. 

 broadly ovate striate, fig. gls. 1-2 ovate acute keeled often mucronate, 

 anthers short apiculate. 



BURMA ; in the extreme south of the Mergui district (Herb. Calcutt.*). 



Leaves very large, base rounded unequal, petiole in. wrinkled, pale and smooth 

 beneath, midrib hairy beneath, nerves 12-18 pairs, transverse nervules of pellucid 

 glands ; sheath shining, callus narrow ; ligule short, very hairy. Panicle large, 

 branchlets tolid, short ; rachis slender, flexuous, glabrous ; heads (young only seen) 

 bracteate. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, style hairy, stigma plumose. An imperfectly 

 known species, best distinguished by the falcate long-fringed auricles of the 

 leaves. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



15. Z>. Parishii, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 149; panicle 

 of globose interrupted dense heads, spikelets about 3- in. ovoid subobtuse 

 nearly glabrous compressed, empty gls. 1-2 ovate acute many-nerved 

 ciliate, flg. gls. 2-3 similar glabrous, upper mucronate tessellately nerved 

 ciliate, anther tip obtusely acute. Brandis For. Fl. 570; Gamble Bamb. 

 Brit. Ind. 93, t. 82. 



The PANJAB HIMALAYA, ParisJi. 



Flowers nearest Z>. Hookeri (of which it is possibly a planted specimen), differing 

 in the glabrous gls. and obtusely acute anthers. 



16. D. Collettianus, Gamble Bamb. Brit. 2nd. 93, t. 83; heads of 

 spikelets |-1 in. diam. bracteate with 6-12 fertile and a few sterile fls. 

 rachis pubescent, spikelets |-f in. soft white-pubescent, empty gls. 2 ovate 

 acute many-nerved midrib thickened, flg. gls. 2-1 and an imperfect ovate- 



