DencLrocalamus.'] CLXXITI. GRAMINE^E. (Bambusew, Gamble.) 409 



lanceolate shortly mucronate pubescent many-nerved, palea larger than 

 the tig. gl., keels long-ciliate with white hairs, anthers obtusely apiculate. 



UPPER BURMA; Fort Stedman, Abdul Huk. 



The softly white-hairy spikelets are diagnostic. 



139. BXELOCALAMUS, Benth. 



Stem semiscandent from a stout rootstock. Stem-sheaths hard, cylindric, 

 auricled. Leaves large, petioled, transverse nervules 0. Panicle large. 

 Spikelets in dense heads, very small, rachilla continuous and produced 

 beyond the upper gl.; empty gls. 2, broad, obtuse, many-nerved; fig. gls. 

 2, bisexual but one only fertile ; palea very broad, cymbiform, membranous. 

 Lodicules 3, large, ciliate. Stamens 6, filaments short, free, anthers obtuse. 

 Ovary glabrous, style short, stigmas 2-3 plumose. Grain very large, 

 depressed-globose, pericarp tough ; seed large, fleshy. 



M. compactiflorus, Benili. in Journ. *Linn. Soc. xix. (18&L) 134; 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 94, t. 84. Pseudostachyum compactiflorum, 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burm. ii. 567 ; Ind. Forester, i. t. II. fig. 13. 



EASTERN BENGAL and BURMA ; from Silhet to Arracan, Martaban, and the Kuby 

 Mines district. 



Stems 15-100 ft. by ^-1 in. diam., rough, spreading and arching over tall trees, 

 nodes thickened; internodes grey green, 14-24 in. Stem-sheaths about 6 by 3 in., 

 smooth or strigose, mouth dilated ; blade long-acuminate, dilating into a narrow 

 dark reflexed crescentic auricle fringed with stiff bristles, hispid towards the base; 

 ligule narrow, entire. Leaves 6-10 by 1-2 in., oblong-kuceolate, tip subulate 

 pe&icillate twisted, base rounded, petiole hairy, midrib narrow, nerves 8-12 pairs ; 

 sheath striate, young strigose, mouth truncate, auricle lunate reflexed ; ligule 

 narrow. Panicle interrupted, often leafy, heads - in. diam., subglobose, rachis 

 flexuous pubescent, laterally flattened. Spikelets -^g in., or rather more, obtuse or 

 truncate, 2-cleft ; empty gls. ventricose; fl. gls. similar, often ciliate. Grain 1-H 

 in. diam., seated in the persistent glumes. 



140. FSEUDOSTACHYUHI, Munro. 



Shrubby, rootstock creeping. Stem-slieatlis short. Leaves large, tessel- 

 lately nerved. Panicle with drooping spikes. Spikelets small, solitary in 

 the axils of narrow bracts, 1-tid., rachilla produced with imperfect gls. ; / 

 empty gl. usually solitary, broad, mucronate, about 7-nerved ; fig. gl. 

 similar; palea thin, convolute, 2-keeled. Lodicules 3-5, large, ciliate. 

 Stamens 6, anthers apiculate. Ovary linear-oblong, glabrous, style long 

 rigid, stigmas 2 hairy. Grain depressed-globose. 



P. polymorphum, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 142, t. 

 4 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 96, t. 85. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ASSAM, the GARROW HILLS, MUNNIPORB & BURMA, 

 Griffith, &c. 



Stems up to 50 ft., by 7-12 in. diam., arising singly from the rootstock, often 

 subscaudent, nodes hardly swollen, internodes 7-12 in. by 1 in. diam., at first 

 glaucous, walls very thin. Stem-sheaths shorter than the internodes, triangular, 

 truncate, strigose with brown hairs, auricle very short with a tuft of stiff bristles ; 

 blade long-Hcuminate in young shoots, base as broad as the truncate top of the 

 sheath ; ligule short. Leaves 4-14 by 1-2 in., narrowed into the stout - in. 



