414 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
4, OXYTENANTHERA PARVIFOLIA, Brandis М5. 
Apparently a large-sized bamboo. Culms up to З in. in diameter. Culm-sheaths 
8 to 9 in. long, 8 to 10 in. broad, covered on the back with appressed brown hairs, 
rounded at the top and truncate, striate; imperfect blade 2 to 3 in. long by about 1 in, 
broad, ovate-acuminate, rounded at base and decurrent оп the top of the sheath in a 
narrow, naked, slightly auricled band ; ligule rather broad, dentate. Leaves linear-lanceo- 
late, 3 to 5 in. long, about “5 in. broad; rounded at base in а short 71 in. petiole ; 
the apex with a short subulate twisted point; smooth above, except on the marginal 
veins which are scabrous, pale and slightly pubescent beneath, scabrous on one or both 
margins ; leaf-sheaths hairy at first, afterwards ending in a prominent callus and 
furnished with a few deciduous bristles at top; ligule long, acute, faintly dentate, 
pubescent. Inflorescence a large panicle of spicate branchlets bearing verticils of spikelets 
4 to 10 to the verticil, supported by small polished bracts; rachis thin, wiry, 1 to 2 in. 
long between verticils. Spikelets narrow, 6 to ‘8 in. long by 1 to ‘2 in. broad, glabrous; 
many fertile mixed with few sterile; empty glumes 2 to 3, ovate, mucronate, glabrous, 
striate near the tip; after them usually 2 hermaphrodite flowers, then one imperfect; 
flowering glumes similar but longer; palea as long as flowering glume, 2-keeled, shortly 
ciliate on keels, shortly emarginate, 83—5-nerved on back; that of final flower not keeled, 
concave, glabrous. Stamens exserted; anthers rather short, obtuse. Ovary hairy, ovoid- 
acuminate; style long, slender, with 1-2 shortly plumose stigmas. 
Yónzalin Valley in Burma, collected by D. Brandis in Mareh 1880. 
This species is distinguished from O. migrociliaia and О. albociliata by its having 
the edges of the glumes not ciliate and by its small leaves. It is known, according 
to Brandis, as Tseikdoo-mindoo (Burmese); Wamo (Karen). 
Рглте No. 63.—Oxytenanthera parvifolia, Brandis. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
panicle —of natural size; З, culm-sheath—somewhat reduced; 4, spikelet ; 5, empty glume ; 
6, flowering glume; 7, lower flower palea ; 8, uppermost flower palea; 9, ovary and 
style—enlarged. (All from Brandis’ specimens.) 
5. OXYTENANTHERA 'ГН\УАТТЕЗИ, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 129. 
А straggling or subscandent, garious, reed-like bamboo. Culms 10 to 12 ft. 
long, or longer, about 1 in. in diameter, smooth, usually ending in a curved whip 
with vertieils of small branchlets and very small leaves; bandi. from the base, the 
branchlets verticillate and sheathed; leaf- and анар branches on the same culm; 
nodes prominently jointed; internodes 12 to 18 in. long, rough, hirsute when young 
walls thin, 1 to :2 in. thick. Culm-sheaths about 6 in. long, 3 to 4 іп. broad, 
those of thicker shoots covered on the back with appressed, light brown hairs; those 
of younger and thinner shoots nearly glabrous, yellow, shining, the base ending in 
a coriaceous, separable ring, truncate at the mouth, ciliate on the margins, especially 
at the top; imperfect blade ovate, acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long by 1 in. broad, rounded 
at the base and then again decurrent along the top of the sheath, and ending in 
large, rounded, faleate auricles which are tipped with stiff curved bristles; ligule 
of larger older sheaths very long and long-fimbriate, that of younger and smaller ones 
