INDIAN BAMBUSEE ; GAMBLE. 87 
broad; empty glumes 1 to 2, short, rounded, many-nerved, membranous; flowers 3 to 
9, usually all fertile; flowering glumes broad, orbicular, cuspidate, ciliate on the edges 
and densely tomentose within, 9- to ll-nerved; palea much shorter, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute or bi-mucronate, ciliate on the keels and 2-nerved between, densely tomentose 
within; terminal flower followed by а bristle-like rachilla, with а minute rudiment of 
a flower. Lodicuies 0 to 2, narrow linear-lanceolate, long-ciliate, generally absent. 
Stamens exserted ; anthers purple, the connective produced into a short, conical, hairy 
point. Ovary ovate from a broad base, hairy above, produced into a hairy style bearing 
three short plumose stigmas.  Caryopsis (immature) rounded, shining, hairy above, dull 
and cuneate below, pericarp easily separable. BAMBUSA PATELLARIS, Kurz MS. in Calcutta 
Bot. Garden Herbarium. 
North-East Himalaya and hills of Assam, ascending to 5,000 ft. Collected by 
Kurz, T. Anderson, G. A. Gammie, myself and others in the Darjeeling hills in leaf only, 
and by Sri Gopal Banerjee, in July 1890, in flower at Rangma Parbat, Naga Hills, 
for G. Mann. The chief Darjeeling locality is the Simonbong ridge below Tonglo 
at 4,000 ft. 
This remarkable species, distinguished at once by the curious ring at the nodes 
and the fringes of the culm-sheath, has long been known in the Darjeeling hills by 
the name Радой, радлой-рао (Lepcha), but in leaf only. The flowering specimens 
now received are said by G. Mann to be doubtful, as he identifies them with Den- 
drocalamus Нат опа. But I find that they do not entirely agree with those of that 
common and well-known species, for the flowering glumes and palex are very hairy 
inside, the anther tips are not nearly so long, there are lodicules occasionally present, 
and there is a terminal free rachilla; so that I consider I am justified in assuming 
that Babu Sri Gopal Banerjee did get his leaves and his flowers off the same clump, 
and that until further specimens come to hand, those sent by him should be considered 
as belonging to this species. 
This bamboo is well worth cultivation for its handsome appearance, and it might 
even be hardy in some parts of Europe. In the Naga Hills it is used for basket-work, 
and known by the name Footoong (Mikir). 
PrarE No. 75.—Dendrocalamus patellaris, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch ; 2, flowering branch ; 
3, culm-sheath—of natural size; 4, spikelet; 5, flowering glume; 6, palea; 7, lodicules ; 
8, anther; 9, ovary and stigmas; 10, caryopsis (immature)—enlarged. (Nos. 1 and 3 
from my own Sikkim specimens; the rest from G. Mann’s.) 
SECTION III. 
8. DENDROCALAMUS GIGANTEUS, Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 150. 
A gigantic bamboo, with close ceespitose culms and slender branches. Culms very 
large though thin-walled, 80 to 100 ft. long, usually naked below and branched 
above, 8 to 10 in. in diameter, grey-green, covered with white waxy scurf when 
young; internodes rather short, 15 to 16 in.; nodes hairy beneath and marked with root 
scars; walls thin. Culm-sheaths very large, about 20 in. long by 20 in. broad at base, 
ВИЕ y deciduous, hard, glabrous, shining within, dull yellow without and thinly covered 
with golden stiff hairs, rounded at the top and often much depressed; imperfect blade 5 to 
15 in. long, up to 31 in. broad, usually recurved, the edges waved and often involute, 
