INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 85 
rounded, kecled and ciliate on the keels, otherwise glabrous; fertile flowers 2 to 3; 
Лошеттд glume ovate, acute, glabrous, mucronate, ciliate on the edges; palea of lower 
flowers 2-keeled, densely shaggy on the keels and blunt, sometimes slightly bifid at 
the tip, many-veined; palea of uppermost flower not keeled, acute, hairy at tip, many- 
veined; final flower sterile, reduced to a thin, papery glume. Stamens exserted, yellow(?), 
acute, Ovary sub-globular, hairy, with a short, thick, hairy sfyle and club-shaped hairy 
stigma, Curyopsis obovate-depressed, apiculate, shining above with a few hairs, wrinkled 
below. Gardeners Chronicle 6th June 1890 and 3rd December 1892. 
Hills of the North-East Himalaya in Sikkim and Bhutan, 4,000 to 6,000 feet; and at 
Tura Peak, Garo Hills, at 3,500 feet. Also cultivated in the Calcutta Botanic Garden, 
at Peradeniya in Ceylon, in the Nilgiris and elsewhere from seed collected by R. Pantling 
in 1885. Also grown in the Royal Gardens, Kew; at Castlewellan, County Down and 
other places in Europe. Our flowering specimens are due to Mr. Pantling’s energy. 
This beautiful bamboo is the largest in Sikkim, where it has bigger culms than those 
of D. Hamiltonii, and is the one preferred by Lepchas and Bhutias for making the 
‘chungas’ for carrying water and milk, and for churning butter. It is known to the 
Lepchas by the name of Pugriang and to the Garos as Wadah (G. Mann). The leaves 
are said to be poisonous to cattle in Sikkim, and specimens sent for identification 
in 1893 to Mr. J. F. Duthie as having caused death to horses who had eaten some 
from the same clump, proved to belong to this species. Mr. Mann’s splendid Tura 
specimens show the ligules as not fringed, but the imperfect blades bearing beautiful 
long-fringed auricles. The species is readily distinguished by its large flower heads, 
densely velvety felted stem-sheath and the long-ciliate auricles of the leaf-sheaths. 
Prate No. 72.— Dendrocalamus sikkimensis, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
panicle—of natural size; 3, culm-sheath (old); 4, apex of stem-sheath from young shoots— 
reduced; 5, spikelet; 6, spikelet, open; 7, palea of lower flowers; 8, palea of upper 
flowers ; 9, anther ; 10, ovary with style and stigma; 11 & 12, сагуорзв with section— 
enlarged. (Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 from Plate 1770 of Hooker's Icones Plantarum; No, 3 
from Mr. G, Mann’s Garo Hills specimen; rest from specimens of Mr. Pantling’s collecting.) 
6. DENDRocALAMUS Hookrmr, Munro in Trans, Linn. Soc, xxvi. 151. 
A large bamboo with cespitose stems and long curving branches. Culms large, 
50 to 60 ft. high, usually naked below, much-branched above, 4 to 6 in. in 
diameter, dark green, lower internodes somewhat rough hairy, walls about 1 in. 
. thick; internodes 18 to 20 in. long. Culm-sheaths large, very broad at base 
when old, narrower in younger stems or on the upper branches, about 16 in. broad 
at base, 8 to 12 in. long, deusely covered with black or brown hairs outside, 
glabrous inside, narrowed above to 2 to 3 in. where the imperfect. blade is inserted А 
and furnished with small rounded auricles covered with long stiff ciliæ, edges ciliate ; 
imperfect blade rounded at base, triangular-cuspidate above or elongate-cuspidate, 3 to 7 
in. long, hairy above, glabrous below ; ligule 2 to :3 in. long, glabrous, sharply serrate. 
Leaves large, rounded at base into a very short petiole, somewhat  unequal-sided, 
oblong-lanceolate, with a long twisted, hispid, acuminate tip; smooth above, rough 
below, and with scattered hairs near the base, scabrous on the edges ; main vein 
very prominent, yellow, shining, secondary veins 8 to 16 pairs, conspicuous, inter- 
mediate usually. 7 to 8, with pellucid dots between, bars like transverse veiulets 
Ann. Вот. Bor. Garp. Carcurra, Vor. VII. 
