414 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (Bambusew, Gamble.) [Cephalostachyum. 



Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 109, t. 96. Melocanna lutescens, Kurz in Herb. 

 Galcuti. 



BURMA ; Pegu ? (cult, in Calcutta and Madras gardens). 



Evergreen, subarboresceut. Stems 10-20 ft. by 1-H in- diam., .smooth, dull 

 green, at length yellow, nodes not prominent ; internodes rather long. Stem-sheaths 

 4-5 by about 5 in., smooth or strigose with pale or brown hairs; blade 1-1J in., 

 erect, base cordate decurrent as a waved fringe with pointed long auricles edged 

 with stiff curved bristles; ligule narrow. Leaves acuminate, glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy beneath, base contracted, midrib narrow, nerves 4-6 pairs ; sheath smooth, 

 glabrous, callus very narrow, auricles long narrow ; ligule narrow. Panicle of few 

 whorled slender branches with clusters of spikelets 2-2 in. apart; palea with hairy 

 margins. Lodicules oblong, tip ciliate, 3-5-nerved. Ovary ovoid, acuminate, 

 smooth ; style trigonous, stigmas white-hairy. 



7. C. virgratum, Kurz For. Fl. Burma, ii. 565; panicle leafless 

 drooping, branchlets fascicled bearing lax distant heads of few nearly 

 glabrous fertile and sterile spikelets, rachis smooth flattened on one side, 

 spikelets |- in. nearly glabrous narrow acute with 2 small sterile fls. at 

 the base, empty gl. short ovate mucronate, flg. gl. convolute coriaceous 

 mucronate, palea 2-mucronate, anthers obtuse. Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 

 110, 132, t. 97. Melocanna virgata, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 

 (1868) 133. 



UPPER BUKMA ; on the Mogaung river, Griffith-, Bhamo district, Oliver. 



A medium-sized, slender, tufted Bamboo. Stems erect, dark green, young white 

 scurfy, nodes not thickened; internodes 18-24 by 4 in. diam., regular, walls thin. 

 Stem-sheaths 6-8 by 7-10 in. broad at the base, pale, narrowed to a nearly straight 

 top 5-6 in. broad, strigose with golden hairs; blade 4-5 in., usually recurved, decur- 

 rent along the top of the sheath in a narrow straight baud bordered with stiff recurved 

 bristles, glabrous above, strigose beneath ; base l-l in. broad cordate, tip cuspi- 

 date, margins incurved ; ligule narrowed, fimbriatp. Leaves rather variable, thin, 

 6-12 by li-2| in., oblong- to linear-lanceolate, cuspidately acuminate, rough on 

 both surfaces, tip and margins scabrous, pale beneath and slightly hairy, mid-rib 

 pale broad, nerves 10 pairs with 5-7 intermediate, cross-nervules few ; sheath 

 smooth, striate, keeled, ending in a narrow ciliate callus, and bearing short bristly 

 auricles ; ligule very short, fimbriate. Panicles large, heads bracteate ; bracts narrow 

 chaffy. Lodicules lanceolate, acuminate, shortly ciliate, faintly 3-nerved. Orary 

 ovoid, glabrous, style thickened; stigmas 2-3, purple, plumose. 



143. DINOCHLOA, Buse. 



Lofty evergreen scandent Bamboos. Stems zigzag, usually covered 

 with persistent sheaths ; nodes with a broad leathery ring left by the sheath. 

 Stem- sheaths thick, loosely clasping, base wrinkled. Leaves large, rather 

 soft, transverse nervules of pellucid glands. Panicle large, compound, of 

 slender spicate clusters of spikelets. Rpikelets very many, minute, in 

 subglobose sessile heads on short branchlets, 1-fld. ; rachilla inarticulate, 

 not produced; empty gls. 1-4 broad, very obtuse, upper gradually larger; 

 fl. gl. similar; palea convolute, not keeled, as long or longer than the 

 gl. Lodicules 0. Stamens 6, free short. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, style 

 short. Grain ovoid, acuminate. Species, the following. 



1. D. Tjankorreh, Buse in Miq. PI. Jungh. 388; stem-sheaths 

 narrowed to the mouth, leaves 6-10 by 1-1 in. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 

 415; Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 153, t. 5 ; Kurz Ind. Forester, 352; 

 Gamble Bamb. Brit. Ind. 112. Bambusa scandens, Blume ex Nees in 



