46 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
14. Влмвоѕл KINGIANA, п. sp. Gamble. 
A large bamboo. Culms 60 to 70 ft. long, up to 4 in. in diameter. Culm-sheaths not 
known. Leaves 10 to 12 in. long, 1 to 25 in. broad, linear-lanceolate ; unequally 
rounded at the base into a rather thick, 2 to :9 in. long petiole; tip acuminate, 
scabrous ; smooth above except the scabrous marginal veins, pale and sparsely hairy 
beneath afterwards glabrous; scabrous on the edges; main vein thick, prominent, 
shining, secondary veins 10 to 14 pairs, intermediate 5 to 7, pellucid glands giving the 
appearance of transverse veinlets beneath ; /eaf-sheaths smooth, somewhat striate, ciliate 
on the edges, ending in a broad shining callus and a very small rounded naked 
auricle ; ligule rather broad, dentate, often long-fimbriate, one side longer than the 
other. Inflorescence a compound leafy panicle, bearing spicate branchlets on which are 
borne somewhat regularly-spaced clusters of few (1 to 6) purple-tipped spikelets ; 
rachis flexuose, joints flattened on one side, “5 to 1 in. long, pubescent at first, then 
glabrous, bracts small. Spikelets “5 in. long, 2 in. broad, purplish, flattened, with 2 
empty glumes, 4 to 6 fertile flowers, and 1 terminal imperfect flower; rachilla about 
"1 in. long, clavate, flattened ; empty glumes ovate-acute, mucronate, ciliate at the edges ; 
flowering glumes similar, but larger; palea oblong, acute or acuminate, long ciliate on 
the keels, 2-nerved between. JLodicules З, two ovate blunt, one lanceolate, all long- 
fimbriate, usually 3-nerved. Stamens half exserted; anthers narrow, apiculate with a 
tuft of 3 or more penicillate hairs. Ovary broadly ovoid, stalked, hairy, surmounted by 
a short thick style, almost at once separating into З purple plumose stigmas. Caryopsis 
not known. | 
Upper Burma: sent by J. W. Oliver from Petsut, Katha district, under the name 
Thaikwabo (Burmese). 
This pretty species has at first the appearance of a Dendrocalamus, but seems to be а 
true Bambusa. Тһе penicillately tufted anthers are characteristic. I am glad to asso- 
ciate with it the name of Dr. G, King, under whose auspices and with whose assistance 
this work has been done. : 
Prate No. 42.—Bambusa Kingiana, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, flowering branch 
—of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5, flowering glume; 6, palea; 7, 
lodicules ; 8, anther; 9, ovary and stigmas; 10, leaf-sheath—en/arged (from J. W. Oliver's 
specimens). 
SECTION III. 
15. BAMBUSA LINEATA, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxvi. 118. 
A thickly growing, reed-like, large-leaved shrub with short culms. Culms green 
or green striped with yellow, “5 to 1 in. in diameter, much branching when young, 
sparsely covered with spreading stiff bristles; nodes marked by a prominent ring, the 
_ base of the fallen sheath; internodes long, 16 to 24 in., rough, especially below the 
node. Culm-sheath striped when young, about 6 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad, covered, 
when young, with appressed golden brown hairs, especially at the base, afterwards nearly 
glabrous, ciliate on the margins, truncate at top; imperfect blade ovate cuspidate, usually 
as long as the sheath, 2 in. broad or more, erect, many-nerved, rounded at the base 
to about *4 in. and then again spreading out in a narrow (2 to '8 in.) band along 
the top of the sheath, the band long-ciliate, hairy ; ligule “05 in. broad, closely dentate 
and long-fimbriate. Leaves very variable in size, those on young shoots often 15 in. 
