INDIAN ВАМВГЗЕЖ GAMBLE. 4) 
smooth above, except оп the scabrous marginal veins, glaucous beneath; scabrous on the 
edges; main vein thick, prominent, secondary veins 13 to 17, intermediate 5, pellucid 
glands frequent, giving the appearance of strong transverse veinlets on the under surface; 
leaf-sheath striate, glabrous, keeled , ending in a narrow shining callus, and furnished 
at the mouth with large crescent-shaped гейехе auricles up to ‘7 in long and 
strongly fringed with long bristles; ligule elongate, obtuse or triangular, ciliate, often 
deeply cleft. Inflorescence a terminal panicle with spicate branches bearing distant heads 
of spikelets; rachis soft, hollow, the distance between the heads varying from 1 to 4 
in. Spikelets cylindrical, *ó to “б іп. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, with two 
empty glumes, one fertile flower and one rudimentary flower on a terminal produced 
rachila, the rudimentary flower three times as long аз the clavate, glabrous тасһ а; 
empty glumes ovate-acute, many-nerved, glabrous; flowering glumes similar but larger 
and mucronate, convolute; palea as long, membranaceous, 2-keeled, the keels glabrous, 
acute, many-nerved, bearing in the deep concavity between the keels the rachilla of the 
rudimentary flower. Lodicules З, hyaline, long-fimbriate, two ovate obtuse, the third 
smaller acute. Stamens exserted, anthers obtuse, bifid at the apex. Ovary ovoid, smooth, 
gradually attenuated into a style which is almost at once divided into 3 long plumose 
stigmas.  Caryopsis not known. DENDROCALAMUS GRIFFITHIANUS, Kurz For, Fl. Burma ii. 
562. Bambusa sp., Griffith Journ., p. 90. 
Upper Burma, banks of the Mogaung river, collected by Griffith in September 1837. 
This species is characterized by the one-flowered spikelets (like the Perak В. Wray, 
Stapf), by the palea having glabrous keels, by the very soft hollow rachis, and by the 
long-fringed leaf auricles. It has only been once found, but it may be hoped, now 
that the Mogaung valley is becoming better known, that it may soon be rediscovered. 
Specimens received from Burma, from the Kyaukshat Forest, Tenasserim, in 1891, by 
name  Wamyeng (Burmese), have somewhat similar leaves, but they are more rounded 
and much longer petioled; then, the rachis is solid, and although the flowers are only in 
the early bud stage, there is enough to show that they are quite different and have 
ciliated pales. It is not clear why Kurz transferred this species to Dendrocalamus. 
Griffith, in his Journal, p. 90, refers to 16 as a “ Bambusa, vaginis collo barbatis.” 
Ртлте No. 45.—Bambusa Grifithiana, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2 © 3, part of flowering 
branch—of natural size; 4 & 5, spikelet; 6, flowering glume; 7, palea; 8, terminal imperfect 
flower; 9, lodicules; 10, anther; 11, ovary, and stigmas—en/arged (all from Griffith’s 
specimens). 
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18. Вамвоза Wray, Stapf іп Kew Bulletin, 1893, 14. 
А graceful, semi-scandent bamboo. Culm 40 to 60 ft. high, about 1 in. in diameter, 
very thin, the top curving round almost to the ground; internodes yellow, glabrous, 
shining, fistular, the third or fourth from the ground very long, sometimes as long as 
7 ft. Culm-sheaths not described. Leaves linear-lanceolate, smooth, 8 to 10 in. long 
by about 1 in. broad, rounded or attenuate at the base into a narrow, “1 in. long petiole, 
above very narrowly acuminate, glabrous on both sides; main vein prominent, secondary 
veins 7 to 8, intermediate 5 to 7; leaf-sheaths pale, striate, glabrous, ending in a shining 
callus and auricled with а few stiff ciliæ; Прие truncate, short, furnished with long (often 
4 to "5 in.) stiff hairs. Inflorescence a large branching panicle bearing leaves, and with 
the clusters of spikelets collected at the nodes or in short spicate branches; rachis smooth 
Анн. Вот. Вот. Gaz». Carcurra, Vor. VII. 
