INDIAN BAMBUSEJE; GAMBLE. 8l 
with stout branches bearing distant globular heads 15 to 2 in. apart and supported by 
glabrous or sparsely hairy triangular bracts; rachis rounded, striate, hairy above. Spikelets 
spinescent, acute, densely silky, hairy, the fertile intermixed with many small sterile 
ones, 340 “4 in. long, with 2 to 3 fertile flowers ; empty glumes 2, blunt, many-nerved, 
densely silky on the edges and upper part outside, glabrous within; Jlowering glume ovate- 
acute, or ending in a long, sharp spine and bearded with silky hairs below it; раса 
acute or emarginate, that of lower flowers 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels and hairy on 
the wings, glabrous and 3-nerved between the keels, that of the uppermost flower long, 
acute, rounded on the back, not keeled, silkily hairy at the tip, about 9-nerved. 
Stamens apparently little exserted; anthers yellow, bluntly apiculate and sometimes 
minutely penicillate. Ovary narrowly ovoid, gradually passing into а long hairy style 
ending in a purple plumose stigma. Caryopsis not known. 
. Summit of Mount Parasnáth, Chota Nagpore, Bengal, at 4,000 feet, where it has 
been collected by Hooker, Thomson and Kurz, the two latter finding flowers in 1858 
and 1871 (?) It is not known from any other locality. 
As remarked by Munro, this species has very few definite characters to distinguish 
it from D. strictus, but it has a distinct appearance owing to the spreading silky 
“pubescence on the spikelets. I do not find the uppermost palea to be keeled as Munro 
describes it, and I consider the blunt anther tips, more pointed райе, and less depressed 
ovary the best characters; for I have seen some Chota Nagpore specimens of D. strictus 
which come near it in the pubescence. 
PrarE No. 70.—Dendrocalamus sericeus, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
panicle,—of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4 & 5, flowering glume; 6, palea of lower 
flowers; 7, palea of uppermost flowers; 8, anther; 9, ovary—enlaryed. (All from 
Thomson’s specimens.) 
3. DENDROCALAMUS MEMBRANACEUS, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc, xxvi. 149. 
A moderate-sized strong-growing bamboo forming loose clumps. Culms very straight, 
60 to 70 ft. high, up to 4 in. in diameter, when young covered with white powdery 
deciduous scurf, green when old; nodes strongly ringed; those near the base bearing root- 
lets; internodes 9 to 15 in. long; upper branches thin, drooping, leafy. ^ Culm-sheaths 
longer than the internodes, 12 to 20 in. long, 5 to 8 in. broad, glabrous outside or 
with appressed dark brown stiff hairs, narrowed in the upper third into а dark brown, waved, 
fringed auricle to which the imperfect blade is attached ; | imperfect blade long, narrow, 
reflexed, with brown hairs on both sides, but especially within at the base, 13 LJ 16 in. 
long by about 1 in. broad, tapering to a point; ligule up to "4 in. long, hairy within and 
roughly serrate. Leaves on slender branchlets, thin, pale, lanceolate, 5 to 10 in. long, 
-5 to *8 in. broad, rounded or attenuate at the base into a short petiole finely twisted, 
acuminate, hispid above, hairy on the midrib beneath j retrorsely scabrous on the 
margins; main vein prominent, glabrous, secondary veins 4 to 7 pairs, intermediate 7 to 9 : 
leaf-sheaths striate, ending in а callus, cleft nearly to the base, falcate-auricled and with 
long purplish сШе, very white-hairy when young ; ligule obtuse, very short, hairy 
within, longer and ciliate in young seedling specimens. Inflorescence a large compound 
БЕТТІ with distant globular heads, 1 to 2 in. apart ; rachis glabrous or often 
white-pruinose in the upper part, heads “7 to 1 in. in diameter, spinescent. Spikelets 
Ахх. Вот. Bor. Garp. Carcurra, Vor. VII. 
