92 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
main vein prominent, secondary veins 11 to 13 pairs, conspicuous, pellucid glands 
appearing as transverse veinlets numerous; /eaf-sheaíhs striate, white-hairy in the middle, 
glabrous above, truncate, naked at the mouth, fimbriate on one edge; ligule short, 
conspicuous, truncate, serrate. Inflorescence a large panicle; rachis usually very 
scabrous at the top, hirsute on one side where flattened; branches numerous from the 
nodes, elongate, whip-like, pendulous with small distant verticils which are scarcely 
more than ‘4 to ‘5 in. broad and bear few spikelets, the uppermost joints with leafy 
bracts only. ораејећ short, ovate, 2 to "3 in. long, with 4 to 5 fertile flowers; empty 
glumes very small, ovate, mucronate, many-nerved; flowering glume ovate, mucronate, 
glabrous above or rarely slightly scabrous, shortly ciliate on the edges, many-nerved ; 
palea obtuse or acute or mucronate, membranous, ciliate on the keels and edges, 1- to 
2-nerved between the keels. Lodicules none, or 1 to 2, scarce, spathulate-lanceolate, 
fimbriate. Stamens exserted, anthers apiculate with a bristle or with a few short hairs. 
Ovary ovoid, small, hairy; style hairy, deeply cleft into 2 to 3 plumose stigmas. 
BAMBUSA FLAGELLIFERA, Grifith MS. Вамвова Вітохв Пот. and Schultes Syst. Veg. Mant. 
1354 (probably, according to Munro). 
Malay Peninsula, extending northwards to Tenasserim, where Beddome collected it on 
Moolyet at 2,000 ft. in 1879. 
A little known species which requires investigation and better specimens. It is 
at ounce known by the very small spikelets, and is perhaps identical with D. Bran- 
зй. Specimens collected at Singapore by Н. M. Ridley bear the names Buluk Butung, 
butang perith. 
_ Prare No. 80.— Dendrocalamus flagellifer, Munro. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part of flower- 
paniele—of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4, flowering glume; 5, palea, both sides; 6, 
lodicule; 7, anther; 8, ovary and stigmas—endaryed. (АП from Н. N. Ridley's speci- 
men). 
13. DENDROCALAMUS LONGIFIMBRIATUS, n. sp. Gamble. 
A large bamboo. Culms and culm-sheaths unknown. Leaves very large, 12 to 14 
in. long, 2 to З in. broad, oblong-acuminate, unequal at the base and rounded into a 74 
to '5 in. long, broad, wrinkled petiole, tip twisted, scabrous, acuminate; smooth above, 
except the scabrous points on marginal veins; pale and smooth beneath, hairs along the 
midrib somewhat long, edges sometimes scabrous; main vein broad at the base, concave, 
not prominent, secondary veins 12 to 18 pairs, regular, intermediate 6 to 7, indistinct, 
pellucid glands appearing as transverse veinlets when dry; Zeaf-sheaths shining, covered 
with appressed stiff hairs ending in a narrow callus, and furnished with long, very 
prominent, faleate auricles which are thickly set with stiff curved bristles; ligule 
short, very hairy, ciliate on the margin. Inflorescence a large panicle of short spicate 
branchlets bearing small heads of spikelets; rachis slender, glabrous, flexuose; branchlets 
solid; heads (in bud only) 2 to ‘3 in. in diameter supported by blunt, ovate bracts. 
Spikelets very small, glabrous, 1- to 2-flowered; empty glumes broadly ovate, striate, 
flowering glume ovate, acute, keeled, often mucronate ; palea oblong, ciliate on the keels; 
lodicules apparently none. Anthers short, connective shortly apiculate. Ovary ovoid, 
glabrous, surmounted by а hairy style and plumose stigma. Caryopsis not known. 
Burma, sent from the Kyaukshat and Maliwón forests at the extreme south of 
the Mergui District, Tenasserim, in 1891. 
