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9. DENDROCALAMUS CALOSTACHYUS, Kurz For. Fl. Burma ii. 562. 
A tufted bamboo. Culms with appressed silvery hairs, thickened and annulate at the 
nodes. Culm-sheaths covered with appressed tawny hairs, truncate at the mouth; ligule 
narrow, entire, or nearly so, eaves large, those of the end branches broadly lanceolate 
acuminate; rounded at the base into a very short petiole; 9 in. to 1 ft. long by 1 to 2:5 in. 
broad, those of side shoots shorter, smooth and glabrous above, softly hairy beneath, scabrous 
on the edges ; secondary veins 9 to 13 on either side, faint; leaf-sheaths striate, long 
white-ciliate at the edges, ending in a small callus below the petiole and truncate at the 
mouth ; ligule broad, truncate, entire or shortly serrate. Inflorescence a large panicle of long, 
whip-like, curved spikes; spikelets clustered in heads of 2 to 5 with a few small empty 
bracts at base; rachis between the heads 0:5 to 2 in. long, flattened on one side on 
alternate sides, glaucous, somewhat puberulous. Spikelets 4 to "6 long by '2 in. broad, 
faintly pubescent, ovate, acute, slightly compressed, with 4 to 6 fertile flowers; empty 
glumes 2 to 3, broadly ovate, acute, many-nerved and with conspicuous transverse vein- 
lets, ciliate on the edges; lowering glumes similar but rather longer; palea of 
lower flowers keeled, acute, 5-nerved between the keels and transversely veined, 
l-nerved on either side of keel, ciliate on the keels, that of uppermost flower ciliate 
on the edges, but not on the keels. Stamens exserted; anthers yellow, smoothly 
mucronate. Ovary ovate, rounded, sub-hemispheric, hairy, ending in a long hairy style 
with a simple fringed stigma. BAMBUSA caLosrACHYA, Kurz in Journal As. Soc. Beng. 
xli. 249 (1873). 
Upper Burma, Bhamo and Kachin Hills at 3,500 feet elevation and below, collected 
by Dr. John Anderson at Poneshee and Вћато іп 1868, and on the Yunan Expedition 
in 1875. 
. Recognized by its long flagellate spikes and clusters with few spikelets, resembling ` 
most the inflorescence of D. giganteus. Kurz says that there are lodicules, but I have 
not found them. 
Prate No. 77.— Dendrocalamus calostachyus, Kurz. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of panicle 
—of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4 & 5, рез of lower and uppermost flowers; 6, anther; 
7, ovary and style—enlarged. (From Dr. Anderson's specimens). 
10. DENDROCALAMUS LoNGISPATHUS, Kurz Рог. Fl. Burma ii. 561. 
A large bamboo with cæspitose culms, reaching 60 ft. in height, leaves borne only 
on upper branches. Culms glaucous-green when young, greyish-green when old, 
covered with more or less persistent sheaths, as long, or even longer than, the internodes ; 
nodes little swollen, often rooting; internodes 10 to 24 in. long, 3 to 4 in, in dia- 
meter, walls “5 in. thick. Culm-sheaths papery, 15 to 20 іп. long, 5 to 7 in. broad, 
sides parallel till near the top where they are gradually approximate and embrace a 
depressed sinus on which the recurved imperfect blade is inserted ; sometimes with а round 
naked auricle on one side; densely clothed on the back with patches of stiff appressed 
brown hairs; imperfect blade lanceolate-acuminate, recurved, 12 to 18 in. long by 1 to 1:5 
in. broad at the broadest point a little above the insertion, densely hairy on the back 
and near the base beneath; ligule broad, much serrate or often long-fimbriate, Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at the base into a very short 
petiole; glabrous above, rough and glaucescent or sometimes almost white beneath, edge 
Ann. Вот. Вот. Garp. Catcurza, Vor. VII. 
