81 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
apparent when dry; /eaf-sheaths striate, hairy below, glabrous and brown shining above, 
truncate or somewhat produced at the mouth, which is sometimes furnished with a 
few stiff long bristles, callus large ; ligule conspicuous, truncate or produced, glabrous. 
Inflorescence a large compound panicle bearing at intervals of 2 to 3 in. dense 
globular heads of spikelets, 1 in. in diameter; internodes dull grey-green, striate, some- 
what hirsute. Spikelets "8 to ‘4 in. long by ‘1 in. broad, ovate, acute, minutely 
pubescent ; empty glumes 2, ovate, blunt; fertile flowers 2 to 3; flowering glumes 
ovate, acute, the uppermost mucronate, with many veins and frequent transverse 
veinlets ; palea of lower flowers 2-keeled, acute, ciliate on the keels, hardly veined 
between, that of upper flower not at all, or only slightly, keeled, ciliate at tip. Stamens 
little exserted ; anthers long, ending in a penicillate point. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 
acuminate, hairy, surmounted by a hairy style and ending in a twisted plumose stigma. 
Caryopsis not known. Brandis For. Flora 570. 
-Khasia and Jaintea Hills in Assam, 2,000 to 5,000 feet, extending to the Bhamo 
District in Upper Burma. In the Khasia Hills it. has been collected by Hooker and 
Thomson, and by G. Mann. 
In Assam, this species is locally known as Seiat, ussey, sejsai, sjong, denga, ukotang 
С. Mann says it is cultivated in villages and used for building and basket-work- 
purposes. Specimens in flower were also collected by E. E. Fernandez near Naini 
Tal in Kumaun, in cultivated clumps, the seed of which was said to have come 
from Nepaul. This was in 1881, while Hooker’s flowering specimens from the Khasia 
Hills were obtained in 1850. The Bhamo specimens, named Kawa ule (Kachin), were 
sent. by J. W. Oliver, Conservator of Forests. It was also collected by J. L. Lister 
in 1875 in the Dikrung Valley, Daphla Hills, at 2,000 to 3,000 feet, who says that it is 
the large one of the country and used for ‘ chungas’ or water-buckets. It is also 
cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, (No. 28). I also identify with this 
species the Sikkim bamboo known as Раш (Lepcha), Tili bans (Nepalese) collected 
by myself and Mr. G. A. Gammie, and this identification is also supported by Munro’s 
note on specimens of Patu collected by T. Anderson. This species is difficult to 
distinguish from D. Найти when in leaf, but its more hairy sheaths and shorter 
leaf ligules separate it from that species. These, on the other hand, resemble those of 
D. sikkimensis, though the leaves and flowers are quite distinct. It is chiefly recog- 
nizable by the very hairy sheath and narrow acute spikelets. | 
Prare No. 78.— Dendrocalamus Hookeri, Munro. 1, leaf-branch ; 2, part of flowering, 
panicle—of natural size; 3, sheath from lower part of stem; 4, sheath from upper part 
—reduced; 5, spikelet; 6, palea of lower flowers; 7, palea of upper flower ; 8, anther ; 
9, ovary and style—enlarged. (Nos. 1 to 3 from Hooker's Khasia Hills specimens ; No. 4 
from Mann’s; Nos. 5 to 9 from Fernandez's specimens.) 
7. DENDROCALAMUS Намплохп, Nees and Arn, 
A large bamboo with cæspitose culms; sometimes growing tall and erect, but 
more often sending out its stems at an angle or curved downwards. Culms large, 40 
to 60 and even up to 80 ft. high, usually naked below, much-branched above; 
4 to 7 in. in diameter, greyish-white when young, with dense appressed pubescence, 
dull green when old; nodes marked with root-scars; internodes 12 to 20 in. long, walls 
