Cephalostachyiim.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE.&, (Bambusece, Gamble.) 413 



parallel, top concave with sub-acute triangular glabrous auricles ; blade 4-5 by - 

 in., subulate; ligule broad. Leaves glabrous, base cuneate or rounded, petiole 

 wrinkled, midrib pale prominent, nerves 8-18 pairs, pellucid dots distant ; sheath 

 striate, margins ciliate produced up to the broad ligule; callus broad, thick, emargi- 

 nate. ^pikelets glabrous, empty gls. ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, long-awued; fig. 

 gls. acuminate, awn shorter ; palea obtuse, tip hairy, nerves reticulate ; rachilla 

 shortly produced. Lodicules 3-nerved. Ovary ovoid, style long flattened, stigmas 

 2 short plumose. Grain broadly ovoid, stipitate, curved above, beaked, pericarp 

 crustaceous. 



4. C. Puchsianum, Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 107, t. P4; stem- 

 sheaths thin top deeply concave with a bristly fringe in the sinus, leaves 8-14 

 by 2-4 in., ovate-lanceolate, head 2^ in. diam., simple globose or compound 

 elongate and lobed, spikelets f-1 in. glabrous sterile and fertile mixed with 

 awned bracts, palea 2-fid anther tip apiculate or forked. 



BHOTAN and the DUPHLA HILLS, alt. 6-8000 ft., Fuchs, Lister, Gammie, &c. 



Arborescent, semi-scandent ; steins small, soft, thin- walled, pale, branches 

 whorled. Stem-sheaths 12 by 4 in., strigose with light brown hairs, sides nearly 

 parallel, margins reticulately nerved, young cylindric ; blade in the base of the 

 sinus, 6-8 in., subulate, pubescent below ; ligule small. Leaves cuspidately acuminate, 

 base angled or rounded, midrib shining, nerves 7-10 pairs, tessellate by pellucid dots ; 

 sheath soft, margins thickly long-ciliate, auricle elongate thickly clothed with white 

 bristles \-\ in. long ; ligule moderate, ciliate. Empty gls. ovate, long-awned, glabrous, 

 17-19-nerved; flg. gl. longer, awn shorter, 21-23-uerved and cross-nervuled ; palea 

 pubescent, 2- keeled and 5-6-nerved on each side; rachilla shortly produced. 

 Lodicules 3-5-nerved, ciliate. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, style thick, stigmas 2 

 shorb. Grain as in C. latifolium, but tip more rounded, pericarp crustaceous. 



** Spikelets in panicled or spicate 7teads or fascicles. 



5. C. pergracile? Mwnro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. (1863) 141 ; 

 stem-sheaths very short 2-auricled strigose with black deciduous hairs 

 afterwards polished, leaves 6-14 by 1-2^ in. linear-lanceolate rough on 

 both surfaces, spikelets ^ | in. diam. bracteate clusters forming filiform 

 drooping spikes, gls. 3-4, empty gls. 0, lower 1-2 sterile, fertile solitary 

 densely hairy with a terminal sterile, palea long 2-fid, anthers obtuse 

 purple. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 564 ; Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 108, t. 95. 



Throughout BURMA, ASSAM, The NAGA HILLS and CHOTA NAGPORE. 



Arboreous, deciduous. Stems 30-40 ft. by 2-3 in. diam., tufted, erect, glaucous, 

 whitish below the scarcely thickened nodes ; internodes 12-18 in. , walls very thin. 

 Stem-sheaths -6 by 6-8 in. ; blade 2 in., densely hairy within, decurrent in a waved 

 fringe bordering the top of the sheath and fringed auricles ; ligule very narrow. 

 Leaves thin, base rounded or cuneate, subglaucous beneath, midrib conspicuous, 

 nerves 7-13 pairs, sparingly tessellate ; sheath glabrous, mouth auricled, callus small 

 ciliate ; ligule very narrow. Panicle large ; heads l|-2 in. apart, bracts small 

 chaffy, rachis wiry. Lodicules narrow, tip ciliate. Ovary smooth, base subglobose, 

 narrowed into a trigonous style, stigmas 2-3 stout. Grain % in., obovate-oblong, 

 grooved on one side, beak as long as itself. 



6. C. flavescens, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. (1873) ii. 252, 

 For. Fl. Burm. ii. 564; stem-sheaths short, top triangular truncate 

 smooth or strigose with white or pale brown hairs, leaves 3-6 by -| in. 

 linear, slieath with narrow auricles, spikelets % in. long linear acuminate 

 hairy, empty gls. 1-2 ovate-lanceolate mucronate hairy 7-9-nerved, fl. gl. 

 solitary similar, palea 2- mucronate, anthers obtuse or acute yellow. 



