38 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GAKDEN, CALCUTTA. 
ciliate at top; flowering glume ovate-acute, mucronate, many-nerved, glabrous, minutely 
pubescent within; palea much shorter, acute, 2-keeled, shortly ciliate on the keels, 3 to 
5 veins between them. Lodicules З, oblong or narrowly obovate, two rather unequally- 
sided, large, and the third acute, smaller, all somewhat thickened at base and veined. 
Stamens hardly exserted, anthers narrow, apiculate, with 1 or 2 long hairs or not. Ovary 
narrowly oblong, attenuate upwards into a hairy thickened s¢y/e which soon branches 
into 3 plumose stigmas. Caryopsis not seen. В. critica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
xli. ii. 950. DENDROCALAMUS cmrirICUS, Kurz Рог. Fl. Burma п. 559. 
Northern and Eastern Bengal, Assam, Upper Burma, extending down to Kamba- 
lataung in the Pegu Yoma. It is apparently wild in the hills up to 5,000 or 6,000 
feet and cultivated in the plains beiow. 
This species is, as Munro remarks, like В. Tulda, and consequently sometimes 
difficult to distinguish from that species and В. nutans; but the very characteristic culm- 
sheaths, the narrow leaves, and the attenuate ovary really at once distinguish it. Flower- 
ing specimens were collected by Hooker and Thomson in Eastern Bengal in 1850 on 
cultivated plants; and, so far as I am aware, 1 has not again been found in flower 
till collected in the Barduar forest, Kamrüp, Assam, in 1890. by Paniram Dás for 
С. Mann. These specimens bear the native name Makal (Assamese). Leaf specimens were 
collected also by Hooker and Thomson in Cachar (native name Burwal, bukhal), and at 
Jowye, Khasia Hills, 9,500 feet (native name Usken, Khasia) Besides the flowering 
specimens referred to above, I identify as this the following with only leaves and culm- 
sheaths sent by G. Mann from Assam in 1890: from Sibsagar (cultivated under names 
Walkthai (Assamese), Watot (Каса); from Kakadanga river, Naga Hiils (wild), under names 
Waikthai (Assamese), Tesero (Naga); from the foot of the Mikir Hills (wild) under names 
Jowa (Assamese), Lofo:(Mikir); from Shillong, Khasia Hills, (cultivated) under names Us£en, 
seskien, skhen (Khasia) ; from Jowai, 4,000 feet, and Sundai Hill in the Jaintia Hills under 
names Usken, skhen, лепу (Khasia); from Charduar forest, Darrang district, under name 
Bijli (Assamese). I also identify as this species the bamboo collected by myself in 1880 
in British Bhutan in the Reyoong and Rilli valleys at 3,000 feet under the name Psi 
(Lepcha); that collected by Т. Anderson in the Teesta valley, 600 to 1,500 feet, in 
1868, and called Pushee ; that collected by Kurz in the Great Rangit valley under the 
same name; and that found at Pedong, 3,000 fect, under the name Bongshing (Bhutia) ; 
- as well as the one collected by С. А. Gammie at Mongpoo under the name Pashipo 
(Lepeha); and I find that on T. Anderson's specimens in Calcutta Herbarium, Munro 
has noted them as ‘very like В. рада. I also identify as this a specimen (No. 273) 
from the Dikrung valley, Daphla Hills, found by J. L. Lister in 1874. Finally, it has 
recently been received from J. W. Oliver from the moist, evergreen forests of the Bhamo 
district, Upper Burma, at 800 feet, under the names Gyawa (Burmese), Madankran, maipyu 
(Kachin); and after carefully reading Kurz description in the Forest Flora of Burma and 
examiuing his specimens and his drawing of the culm-sheath, I conclude that his 
Dendrocalamus criticus from the Kambalataung, the highest point of the Респ Yoma 
Range, is in all probability this species also. In Assam it is used for many рагровев-- 
for building, for making baskets and mats and for vessels to hold water. 
Prarg No. 35.—Bambusa pallida, Munro. 1, leaf-branch ; + part of flowering 
panicle—of natural size ; 3, culm-sheath— reduced ; 4, leaf-sheath ; 5, spikelet ; 6, fertile 
flower; 7, palea; 8 & 9, lodieules; 10, anther; T ovary, style. m stigmas—all enlarged. 
(Nos. 1, 2, 6 from Hooker's specimens; rest fiot С. Mann’s.) 
