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5. Gigantochloa, Kurz. 
Large arborescent or scandent bamboos. Culms usually tall, not branched at the 
base.  Culm-sheaths generally stiff; hairy above, smooth below, auricled. Leaves 
rather large, long, usually attenuate at the base. Jnflorescence a large compound 
panicle with long spicate branches bearing heads of spikelets. Spikelets usually few, 
often of two kinds, fertile and sterile, oblong or linear; fertile flowers several. Empty 
glumes 2 to З. Flowering glumes similar to empty glumes. Рат of all flowers 
2-keeled, keels ciliate. JLodicules 3 or less, often none. Stamens 6, filaments joined 
into a tube which at first is thick and short, and afterwards elongate, membranous. 
Ovary hairy, style elongate, stigmas 1 to 3, hairy. Caryopsis usually oblong or narrow, 
linear, generally furrowed, pericarp membranaceous. 
Півтків,--Тһе eight species here described are all from Burma and the Malay 
Peninsula, one only extending northwards to Chittagong and Assam. Besides these eight, 
there are two more in Java and other islands of the Indian Archipelago, viz. С. Atter, 
Kurz, С. apus, Kurz, and С. robusta, Kurz. The first is a splendid species and has 
two varieties—one with green, the other with purple brown culms (var. туга), both of 
which are growing in the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta; the other two species are 
. not at all well known. 
Analysis of the species. 
Spikelets rounded, oblong. 
Spikelets small, under ‘4 in., glabrous . . . . + + + + + . . . 1. Q. verticillata. 
Spikelets large, oL RES VOS 252 vOv. Ri Bored. 
Spikelets narrow, acute, cyliudrical. 
Leaf ligules short. 
Edges of glumes black-ciliate. 
Spikelets very long, palea ciliate. . . . + • 3. G. macrostachya. 
Spikelets long, palea not ciliate «га 4. 6. Wrayi. 
Edges of glumes pale-ciliate, spikelets long . . . . + . . . 6. б. Кити. 
.. Edges of glumes not ciliate, glabrous . а 6. G. heterostachya. 
ge ткен Кор n / 
Spikelets flattened, large . . . . . . . . te k . . . . < < „ 8. Ө. latisiculata. 
. С. ligulata. 
1. GieANTOCHLOA VERTICILLATA, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi, 124. 
_ А very large -tufted bamboo. Culms 80 to 100 ft. high, 4 to 5 in. in 
diameter, greyish-green when old, light green striped with narrow thin stripes of 
yellow when young, mealy at first and bearing closely appressed stiff light brown 
deciduous hairs; nodes hairy, not prominent; internodes 18 in. long, walls rather thin. 
Culm-sheaths large, crisp, 12 in. long by as much or more in breadth, rounded gradually 
to a mouth 1 to 15 in. broad bearing on either side small rounded auricles fringed with 
a few stiff cilia, produced at the margins beyond the auricles to meet the ligule; inner 
surface shining, glabrous, outer densely covered with golden brown stiff hairs; imperfect 
blade short, ovate, acuminate, hairy within, are slightly decurrent in a narrow edge 
