TeinostachyumJ] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (Bambusece, Gamble.) 411 



stem- and leaf-sheaths not auricled pale strigose, leaves 3-6 by ^-1 in., 

 panicle leafy, spikelets 1 in. clustered at the nodes of simple stiff terminal 

 spikes, empty gl. 1 ovate mucronate 7-nerved ciliate, fl. gls. 2-3 longer 

 9-11-nerved and 1-2 terminal imperfect, lodicules lanceolate tip ciliate. 

 Beddome Fl. Sylvat. Forest. Man. p. ccxxxiv. ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 110 ; 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 100, t. 88. Bambusa attenuata, Thwaites Enum. 

 PI. Zeyl. 375. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 4-6000 ft., Thwaites, &c. 



Stems 12-25 ft. by ^-1 in. diam., tufted, tips filiform, wiry, nodes with many 

 branches. Leaves smooth and pale beneath, tip subulate twisted scabrous, midrib 

 faint, nerves 3-4 pairs; sheath sparingly strigose, margins ci iate, mouth truncate, 

 fringed with deciduous bristles ; ligule short. Panicle leafy, usually of short spikes 

 clustered at the nodes, clusters bracteate composed of several barren spikelets and a 

 few longer often curved fertile, rachis smooth swollen above. Lodicules 3-nerved. 

 Filaments long, twisted. Ovary ovoid, acuminate, glabrous, style long, stigmas 3. 

 Grain narrowed at both ends, beaked, glabrous. 



4. T. Dullooa, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 101, t. 89; stem-sheaths not 

 auricled, leaves variable, spikelets -1 in. in a panicle of spiciform branches 

 subtended jby long truncate bracts softly pubescent, empty gls. 2 small 

 truncate, flg. gls. ^ in. acuminate hairy 10-nerved, palea as long glabrous 

 convolute not keeled, rachilla jointed produced into a long point. 



BHOTAN, ASSAM, SILHET and the hills eastwd. to CHITTAGONQ- and UPPER 

 BURMA. 



Stems 20-30 ft. by 1-3 in. diam., tufted, sometimes scandent ; nodes dark green, 

 little prominent ; internodes 16-40 in. , dark green with a few whitish hairs ; glossy, 

 white beneath the nodes. Stem-slieaths variable, 4-12 in., strigose with white 

 hairs, top concavely truncate loosely fringed with stiff bristles ; blade 36 in., narrow, 

 convolute, very hairy within, base rounded; ligule long, fimbriate. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, subciliately acuminate, tip twisted scabrid, base rounded, petiole -| in., 

 pubescent or glabrescent beneath, midrib pale, nerves 610 pairs, tessellate by pellucid 

 dots; sheath striate, margins ciliate, mouth with stiff deciduous bristles, callus 

 ciliate or glabrous ; ligule long-fimbriate. Oviry glabrous ; style, long reldish. 



5. T. Helferi, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 102, t. 90; stem-sheaths 

 thick brittle top truncate with a narrow long-fringed band, leaves 6-18 by 

 1-3 in. oblong-lanceolate, panicle of long termiual whip-like densely 

 hairy flexuous spikes bearing distant heads of few sterile spikelets which 

 consist of 2-3 striate mucronate hairy empty gls. Bambusa Helferi, 

 Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 114. Pseudostachyum Helferi, 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1872) ii. 253, For. Fl. Burm. ii. 568. 



GAEEOW, KHASIA and JAINTEA HILLS, alt. 3500 ft., PEGU and MAETABAN. 



Stems bushy or climbing, 20-40 ft. by 1-1 in. diam. arching to the ground 

 and rooting, young strigose with white hairs, nodes thickened whitish ; internodes 

 20-50 in., young white-velvety, old with a white band, walls very thin. Stem- 

 sheaths 8-10 in., persistent, sparsely strigose with white bristles ; blade lanceolate, 

 glabrous or shortly hispid, decurrent on a fringed band on the top of the sheath ; 

 ligule narrow, fringed with stiff white hairs. Leaves very variable, unequal-sided, 

 cuspidately acuminate, glabrous and glaucescent beneath, midrib stout, nerves 7-15 

 pairs, tessellate by pellucid glands ; sheath glabrous, auricle long-fringed deciduous, 

 callus smooth ; ligule narrow, fringed with fragile hairs. Very near T. Gri.ffithii. 



142. CEPHALOSTACHYU1VI, Munro. 



Shrubby bamboos. Stems slender, straight. Stem-sheaths auricled. 

 Leaves various, shortly petioled. Spikelets 2, in terminal globose heads, or 



