89 ANNALS ОЕ THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
slightly compressed, glossy, nearly glabrous, 4 to "5 in. long by `1 to 2 in. broad, 
with 2 to 3 fertile flowers; empty glumes 2, ovate, blunt or acute; flowering glumes 
ovate, often ciliate on the edges, mucronate, striate, glabrous; palea as long as 
flowering glumes, rather blunt, those of lower flowers keeled, ciliate on the keels and 
3-nerved between them, that of uppermost flower rounded and nearly glabrous, few- 
nerved, acute. Stamens exserted, filaments long, fine; anthers yellow, shortly apiculate. 
Ovary ovoid, hairy above, glabrous below, ovate, produced into a long hairy style ending 
in a purple plumose stiyma. Caryopsis broadly ovate, rounded at base, 2 to :3 in. long, 
grooved on one side and somewhat flattened, ending in a sharp point formed by the 
persistent base of the style; embryo distinct. Kurz For. Fl. Burma i. 560. 
Moist forests and low ground in Eastern Burma down to Tenasserim. 16 has been 
colleeted in Martaban by Wallich in 1827; in the Yónzalin valley by Brandis in 1857 
and 1862; in Tenasserim by Beddome in 1879; in the Yomas by Kurz in 1871; and in 
the Wuntho and Pinhwe forests by J. W. Oliver in 1800. 
In its inflorescence, this species resembles glabrous forms of D. strictus, and may 
easily be mistaken for 15. It is, however, at once distinguishable by the nearly glabrous 
spikelets, thinner leaves, less rounded at the base, culm-sheaths with waved hairy auricles 
and recurved apical leaf and more elongate grooved caryopsis. It is used in building, 
"The Burmese names vary, for Kurz calls it Wa-ya, Brandis Wa-yai, wamu, and Oliver Wapyu. 
Puate No. 71.—Dendrocalamus | membranaceus, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of 
fiower-panicle—of natural size; 8, culm;sheath—reduced; 4, spikelet; 5, palea, stamens 
and pistil; 6, palea of lower flower; 7, palea of upper flower; 8, ovary and style; 9, 
caryopsis—enlarged ; 10, leaf-sheath of seedling plant (from plant grown from Burma 
seed); 11, leaf-sheath of older plant (all, except 10, from Brandis and Kurz’ Burma 
specimens). 
4. DENDROCALAMUS SIKKIMENSIS, Gamble in Hooker Ic. Plant. t. 1770, 
A large bamboo with cæspitose stems and few culms. Culms large, 50 to 60 and more 
feet high, naked below, branched above, 5 to 7 in. in diameter, dark green; nodes 
ringed; internodes 18 in. long rough; walls 15 in. thick. Culm-sheaths large, 12 in. long 
by 15 in. broad, densely covered with a dark golden brown felt of matted stiff hairs, 
broad at the top; imperfect blade lanceolate, variable, usually as long as the sheath, 2 to 
3 in. broad, recurved, hairy on both faces and decurrent on each side into a large 
recurved, faleate auricle which is fringed with long (often nearly 1 in.) curved, fibrous, 
pale bristles; ligule about *2 in. broad, glabrous, sharply serrate. Leaves variable in size, 
those of ordinary branches 6 to 10 in. long by 10 to 2 in. broad, unequal sided, 
oblong-lanceolate,. acuminate in a twisted black tip; rounded at the base into a short, 
thick petiole; smooth above, strigosely hirsute and rough below, edges scabrous ; main 
vein prominent, secondary veins not prominent, usually about 10 pairs: those of young 
plants and shoots elliptic-acuminate up to 12 in. long and 3 in. broad; main vein rather 
prominent, secondary veins 12 pairs, intermediate 7; Jjeaf-sheaths smooth, glabrous, 
shining, ending in a small ciliate callus and furnished at the edges with falcate hairy 
auricles fringed with stiff bristles; Пуше short, hairy, often long-fringed or fimbriate. 
Inflorescence a large panicle with stiff nodose branches, bearing large red-brown globose 
heads usually 2 in. apart and 15 in. in diameter; rachis dull brown, faintly pubescent. 
Spikelets lanceolate, somewhat. Маш, "5 to 77 in. long; empty glumes З to 4, oval, 
