INDIAN ВАМВОЗЕЖ; GAMBLE. 95 
The flowers are too young for very accurate description, but they come near to 
those of D. longispathus. Тһе beautiful long-fringed faleate auricles characterise best this 
fine species which is known locally as Myengwa, шаруаш (Burmese). 
Prate Хо. 81.— Dendrocalamus — longifimbriatus, Gamble. 1, leaf-branch; 2, part 
of flower-panicle—of natural size; 3, spikelet; 4, empty glume; 5 & 6, flowering 
glumes; 7, palea; 8, palea and stamens; 9, stamens and stigma; 10, ovary—a// 
enlarged, . 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
14. DExDROCALAMUS Равіѕни, Munro іп Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 149. 
Culms, culm-sheaths, and leaves unknown. Inflorescence a panicle of interrupted globose 
densely-flowered heads, the rachis pruinose-glaucous at the top. Spikelets ovate, somewhat 
blunt, nearly glabrous, flattened, 73 to "4 in. long by ‘2 40 "8 in. broad, fertile flowers 
2 to 3; empty glumes 1 to 2, ovate-acute, many-nerved, ciliate on the edges and very 
minutely pubescent near the apex; flowering glume similar but glabrous, those of upper 
flowers mucronate, longitudinally and transversely nerved, ciliate on the edges; palea 
ovate, blunt, emarginate, 2-keeled, ciliate on the keels and edges, 2-nerved between 
them, that of uppermost flower more acute, not keeled, pubescent at the tip, reticulately 
veined. Stamens not exserted; anthers with the connective produced in an obtusely 
acute point. Ovary hairy, ovoid-globose, ending in a long style and feathery stigma. 
Caryopsis large, obovate, smooth above, beaked. Brandis For. Fl, 570. 
Punjab Himalaya: collected once by Lieut. Parish, but not again. 
The flowers are distinct from those of the D. strictus group, and come nearest to 
those of D. Ноойет, but differ in the glabrous flowering glume and bluntly acute anthers. 
It would be an excellent thing to obtain more specimens of this, and to ascertain its true 
position. The exact locality where this grows is apparently unknown. Brandis suggests 
that it may be the same as the big species of Ше Din and Lower Hills; but that 
species, of which I have collected excellent specimens in leaf and flower, is D. Hamiltonit. 
It is more likely to have been a planted specimen of D. Hookeri, like the similarly 
· planted specimens found by E. E. Fernandez near Naini Tál. : 
Ртлте No. 892.— Dendrocalamus Parishii, Munro. 1, flowering branch—of natural 
size; 2, spikelet; 3, flowering glume; 4, palea ; 5, ovary and style; 6, anther—en- 
larged (from Parish’s specimen kindly lent by the Director, Royal Garden, Kew). 
15. DENDROCALAMUS COLLETTIANUS я. sp. Gamble. 
Culms, culm-sheaths and leaves known. Inflorescence a large compound panicle with 
spicate branchlets bearing heads of spikelets, the heads *5 to 1 in. in diameter with 6 to 
12 fertile spikelets and a few sterile spikelets and small ovate bracts ; rachis flexuose, 
pubescent, striate, joints about 1 in. in length. Spikelets 5 to '7 in. long, white- 
pbbescent, soft; empíy glumes 2, ovate-acute, pubescent outside, many -nerved, midrib 
thickened; fertile flowers 2 to 4 with 1 imperfect terminal flower; flowering glume ovate- 
lanceolate, shortly mucronate, pubescent, many-veined ; palea longer than flowering glume, 
long-white-ciliate on the keels, blunt, 2-veined between the keels. Lodicules none, 
Stamens exserted, anthers rather short, bluntly apiculate. Ovary narrowly ovoid, stalked, 
