412 OLXXIII. GRAMINE^E (BvnibuMce, Gamble.) [Cephalostacliyum. 



a panicle of bracteate heads, 1-fld., elongate, rachilla produced beyond 

 the fl. ; empty gls. 2-3, broad, chaffy, many-nerved, usually long-awned; 

 fig. gls. more membranou< convolute, awns shorter; palea thin, many- 

 nerved, keels 2 approximate. Lodicules 3, 3-5-nerved. Stamens 6, free, 

 anthers long. Ovary stipitate, ovoid, narrowed into a long thickened 

 style, stigmas 2-3, plumose. Grain oblong, beaked, pericarp separable. 

 Species all Indian. 



* Spikelets in a solitary head. 



1. C. capitatum, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 139 ; 

 leaves 4-8 by 1-2 in. ovate-lanceolate base unequally rounded, head 1-1^ 

 in. diam., bracts broad long-awned glabrous, spikelets i-f in. terminating 

 short spikes, palea obtusely mucronate tip entire, anthers obtuse. Gamble 

 Bamb. Brit. Ind. 104, t. 91. Bambusa capitata, Wall. Cat. n. 8913. 



SIKKIM and BHOTAN HIMALAYA, alt. 2-8000 ft., KHASIA, JAINTEA, and NAGA 

 HILLS. 



Stems 12-30 ft. by 1-1 in., semi-scandent ; nodes not prominent, internodes 

 often 3 ft. or more, walls thin. Stem-sheaths of young steins papery, 6-12 by 2-3 in., 

 strigose with pale brown hairs, mouth triangular, of the longer upper truncate, of the 

 shorter lower retuse ; blade long, hairy within, base rounded, decurrent into rounded 

 sometimes fringed auricles ; ligule narrow. Leaves pale green, whitish beneath, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, midrib prominent, nerves 4-10 pairs, pellucid dots 

 oblique ; sheaths smooth, shining, auricle short with curved cilia. Empty gls. 

 softly hairy below ; lower 1-3 flg. gls. sterile ; palea hairy between the keels, rachilla 

 produced. Lodicules ovate-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved, shortly ciliate. Anthem long, 

 tips emarginate. Ovary ovoid, style often twisted, stigmas 2 hairy. Grain 

 depressed-ovoid, beaked, shining, pericarp crustaceous. 



Var. decompositum, Gamble 1. c. 105 ; spikelets in spicate almost paniculate 

 clusters, many fertile. Sikkim and Khasia Hills. 



2. C. pallidum, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 139 ; 

 leaves 1-5 by^-l in. base unequally rounded, heads about 1 in., bracts 

 broad rounded, spikelets f f in., palea 2-fid, anthers long-apiculate. Kurz 

 For. Fl. Burma, \\. 563; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 105, t. 92. Bambusa 

 andropogonifolia, Griffith Itin. Notes, 124, No. 417. 



KHASIA, MISHMI, PATKOY and MUNNIPORE HILLS, ascending to 5000 ft., 

 Griffith, &c. 



Shrubby or subarboreous, branches whorled. Leaves pale green, tip capillary, 

 glabrous or puberulous beneath, not tessellate, midrib pale, nerves 4-6 pairs ; sheath 

 striate, margins ciliate, auricle rounded with a few deciduous cilia ; ligule long. 

 Head in the axil of a leaf, of many- loug-awned empty gls. or sterile fl. gls. or with 

 a few exserted fertile spikelets, all bracteate at the base ; empty gls. concave, awned, 

 many-nerved; flg. gls. similar, awn shorter than the gl. ; palea many-nerved, tip 

 and base hairy, rachilla shortly produced. Lodicules pubescent and ciliate. Ovary 

 ovoid-lanceolate, style long conical, stigmas 2 hairy. Grain globosely ovoid, top 

 conical and beaked, wrinkled. 



3. C. latifolium, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1868) 140 ; stem 

 sheaths linear, oblong top narrow, leaves 10-16 by 1-4 in. ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate base unequal cuneate or rounded, sheaths not fringed, heads 

 1^-2 in. diam. of clustered sterile and 1-fld., fertile spikelets -JL in. long 

 with broad awned bracteoles, tip of palea entire, anthers obtusely mucro- 

 nate. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 106, t. 93. 



BHOTAN and MUNNIPORE HILLS, alt. 5-7000 ft., Griffith, &c. 

 Shrubby semi-scandent. Stems thin, rough, dark green, whitish below the 

 nodes which are conspicuously ringed. Stem-sheaths 6-9 by 2-3 in., papery, sides 



