INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 99 
.8. Вамвова AFFINIS, Munro in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxvi. 93. 
А. low, tufted, evergreen, shrubby bamboo. Culms 15 to 90 ft. high by 1 to 
19 in. in diameter, pale green or striped green and white, striate, appressed- 
pubescent ; nodes slightly thickened, marked with black hairs below ; internodes 1 to 2 
ft. long, hollow. Culm-sheaths 4 to 6 іп. long by as much broad, bright green when 
young, afterwards straw-coloured, glabrous or with small patches of brown, appressed 
hairs, rounded at top; imperfect blade 1 to 2 in. long, 79 to “5 in. broad, longer on 
young shoots, lanceolate, usually recurved, appressed-brown-hairy within, slightly rounded 
at base and decurrent in a very narrow entire wing on the top of the sheath; буш 
narrow, entire. Leaves 6 to 10 in. long, 1 to 15 in, broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
rounded or attenuate at base into a '2 in. long petiole; acuminate above in a scabrous 
twisted point; smooth above, except the scabrous points on marginal veins, scabrid 
below and pale-coloured, scabrous on the edges; main vein rather prominent, secondary 
veins 8 to 10, intermediate 6 to 8, pellucid glands many, giving the appearance of trans- 
verse veinlets beneath; Jeaf-sheaíhs striate, the back covered with stiff brown hairs, 
keeled, ending above in a short callus, and produced beyond it to a length of 1 to #2 
in. to meet the broad ligule. Inflorescence a terminal spike or panicle, usually on leafy 
branchlets ; rachis glabrous, 4 to 7 in. long in the internodes, which bear 2 to 3 
branchlets with few shining, about 1 in. long, coriaceous spikelets in small verticils. 
Spikelets 6- to 10-flowered, very glossy, pale brown; rachille short, shortly bearded at 
the apex, striate ; flowering glume long, acuminate, more than 20-nerved, folded at the 
base; palea much narrower, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels, 7-nerved between them, 
4-nerved outside. JLodicules З, rather thick, the two larger ones often united at the 
base, many-nerved and somewhat folded. Ovary almost obovate, almost hairy at tho 
apex and tapering into a sfyle cleft into three stigmas. Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii. 551. 
Eng Forests of Martaban in Burma, east of the river Sittang. | 
This is usually а shrubby species, in habit not unlike В. lineata, but the spikelets, 
which unfortunately I have never been able to examine, are very different. Munro, 
quoting Brandis, who obtained it in flower in the Yónzalin valley under the namo 
Theeshe, describes it as scandent; but Kurz, who must have known it growing, calls it 
a low bushy species, and this is the character it shows in cultivation in Calcutta, 
where it. is common in the Botanic Garden on the edge of the muddy river bank, 
Kurz gives the name ‘ Thaikwa,” the same as that of B. Tuida and В. burmanica. I 
regret that I am unable to figure the flowers. 
: Prae No. 36.—Bambusa айпи, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, culm-sheath ; 3, leaf. 
sheath—of natural size. (from Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, living specimens), 
9, BAMBUSA KHASIANA, Munro in. Trans, Linn. Soc. xxvi. 97. 
A graceful bamboo with single culms from a creeping rootstock, Culms 30 to 40 
ft, high, 1 to 14 in. in diameter, fistular, rather soft, sometimes variegated with 
айга blotches when young, dark olive green, with a whitish ring below the 
node and a bluish ring above, clothed with appressed golden hairs when young, after- 
wards smooth; nodes not prominent; internodes 5 to 15 in., walls thin, -1 to “3 in. 
thick; — Culm-sheaths 5 to 6 in. long, 4 to 5 in. broad, striate, covered with 
dense tawny appressed hairs, straight, truncate at the top which is but little narrower 
